- Title: USA / AVIATION: Post and Gatty welcomed after record-breaking 16,500 mile flight
- Date: 13th July 1931
- Summary: SLATE INFORMATION: Circle Globe in 9 Days USA: New York: EXT/NIGHT Plane 'Winnie Mae', carrying Post and Getty, comes in to land Plane taxiing on tarmac Wiley Post (pilot) waving from cockpit Harold Gatty (navigator) getting out of plane Post and Gatty surrounded by press and police trying to hold crowd back Car, carrying aviators, slowly along through crowd SLATE DAY Mae Quinlan Post (Wiley Post's mother) speaking SOT - no finer birthday present than news of Wiley safely landing SLATE High Angle shots of procession (for Post and Gatty) along street through ticker-tape welcome Post and Gatty along in open top car
- Embargoed: 28th July 1931 13:00
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- Location: NEW YORK, U.S.
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- Country: USA
- Topics: Transport
- Reuters ID: LVA3D9BVTN86SWWA6WMH5BMR7BOG
- Story Text: Aviators, Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, return to heroes welcome in New York after record-breaking 16,500 mile flight, circling the world by plane in nine days. Proudest of all. the mother of pilot Post, who kept lonely vigil during son's perilous flight. Later, the conquering heries drive "in state" as New York greets them in typical fashion.
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