4: Ups-a-Daisy With Wiley Post
Wiley Post was always a hard fellow to talk to. He was rather reluctant ever to tell any of his experiences. Once I happened to catch him in a fairly talkative mood. At the time, I was the referee of the National Air Tour back in 1929, and Wiley was a contestant. I felt that I was one of a fortunate few in getting a story out of him.
It seems Post was flying out in Wyoming with an old Hispano-Standard. The field where he had landed was at an altitude of 6,000. It was not a regular flying field, just a great big grazing plot of land about five miles square. There were two passengers involved who wanted to be flown to Cheyenne from this point, which was their ranch. The distance was about 200 miles.
“And you say you had full tanks of fuel, the two ranchers,
