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Events on Tuesday 23 June 1931 1
1931Post and Gatty fly around the worldThe Winnie Mae circles the globe in under nine daysThe pilot Wiley Post and the navigator Harold Gatty flew the Lockheed Vega Winnie Mae around the world from Roosevelt Field, New York. They took eight days, 15 hours and 51 minutes, a new record. Post made the first solo round-the-world flight two years later.