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[[image - photograph with caption: THE WINNIE MAE BACK AT THE STARTING POINT: WILEY POST Climbing Out of His Plane on His Arrival at Floyd Bennett Airport From Edmonton on the Last Lap of His Flight of 15,596 Miles Around the World.]]
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[[image - map reflecting course of Wiley Post's New York to New York around the world flight]]

Course of Post's Flight

From New York to New York around the world with only five intermediate stops.

That is the proposed itinerary of Wiley Post, who took off with a robot pilot in the historic Winnie Mae today in an attempt to cut down the globe-hurdling record he established in 1931 with Harold Gatty. Here is his mileage:

New York to Berlin, 3,900 miles.
Berlin to Novosibirsk, 2,600 miles.
Novosibirsk to Khabarovsk, 2,250 miles.
Khabarovsk to Fairbanks, Alaska, 3,000 miles.
Fairbanks to Edmonton, Alberta, 1,450 miles.
Edmonton to New York, 2,200 miles.

On the Khabarovsk to Fairbanks leg of his flight Post will pass close to Anadir, Siberia, where Jimmie Mattern is stranded awaiting rescue planes after his unsuccessful solo attempt to fly around the globe.
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