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Round the world in 8 1/2 days with a year-old wasp engine.

[[image - photograph of Lockheed mono-plane in flight]]

[[image - map showing the route taken by Post and Gatty]]

[[image - photograph of Post and Gatty in front of their aircraft]]
[[caption]] Wiley Post and Harold Gatty with their record-smashing, Wasp-powered Lockheed. The map shows their route, which took them over two oceans, across seven countries, and through temperatures varying from torrid to arctic. The total flying time for the distance of 15,474 was 4 days, 10 hours, 8 minutes. [[/caption]]

To Wiley Post and Harold Gatty who flew their Lockheed plane around the world in 8 days, 15 hours and 50 minutes, the builders of their Wasp engine extend heartiest congratulations. The engine used was a standard supercharged Wasp, a year old, which had approximately 300 hours of use in Mr. F. C. Hall's private Lockheed. This same engine, flown at full throttle for 9 hours, won the Los Angeles-Chicago non-stop derby of the 1930 National Air Races at an average speed of 192 m.p.h Prior to the world flight the engine was overhauled by the Aero Corporation of California.

Checked after its grueling flight of 15,474 miles, the Wasp was pronounced by Post to be ready, without any replacement, for another trip around the world. Just one more demonstration of the kind of Pratt & Whitney stamina which accounts for the use of Wasp & Hornet engines by the Army, the Navy, and on most of the important, regularly scheduled air transport lines of this country.

Wasp & Hornet Engines
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Registered Trade-Mark
Copyright 1931 P. & W. A. Co.

The Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co.
East Hartford...Connecticut
Division of United Aircraft & Transport Corp.
Manufactured in Canada by Canadian Pratt & Whitney. Aircraft Co., Ltd., Longueuil Quebec; in Continental Europe by Bavarian Motor Works, Munich; in Japan by Nakajima Aircraft Works, Tokyo.