Nose Art: Flying Blind

FLYING BLIND (7/14/35)

One month before his tragic death in a 1935 plane crash, famed aviator Wiley Post commissioned this nosecone art as a wry comment on his having only one eye. Post had hoped to ride the FLYING BLIND during the first VGL translocation to another universe. Instead, the FLYING BLIND made eight missions before being destroyed on a Ninth Harmonic exploration in 1937.

FLYING BLIND II: Type: UFT 2B
Commissioned: August, 1952
Thirty-three missions, 1952-1958
Decommissioned: June, 1958
FLYING BLIND III: Type: System 2.1
Commissioned: April, 1989

Wiley Post preparing to test the new pressure suit he developed for the VGL.

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