This is a beautiful build of the ESCI/ERTL Lockheed Vega a truly beautiful build by modeller Rafael Oliva Moreno this build has some history!

Wiley Hardeman Post is placed in aviation history as 'the man with the eye patch'. The one-eyed American pilot of the records, as he was called, he was the first solo pilot to make a flight with stops around the world, which ended on July 22, 1933. The trip without company began on July 15...when he left New York City, a city to which he also arrived. The journey took him 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes for a path of 25,100.00 kilometers, passing through Germany, Moscow and Alaska.

From the age of 15, Hardeman Post linked his life to that of aircraft. His idea was focused on piloting, for this he first entered skydiving; However, at the age of 28, a work accident delayed his illusion. 'EL TUERTO' POST IS BORN On October 1, 1926, while working in Seminole, Oklahoma, a piece of iron pierced his left eye; As a consequence of the infection that occurred, the cavity had to be enucleated.

The 1,800 dollars that they gave him in compensation was used to buy an airplane, a Curtis Canuck biplane; but he lacked the license to fulfill one of his objectives, despite his monophthalmia, he got it after successfully passing the 700 mandatory hours of learning. Wiley wanted to fly high, he knew that he would not achieve it with the biplane.

So in 1930 he decided to get rid of it and acquire a Lockheed Vega, an aircraft made of plywood, with registration NR-105-W, in which he would perform his exploits. and the one named after his wife, Winnie Mae.

ENTER THE HISTORY OF AVIATION A year later he entered the history of aviation by flying the first round the world trip. Between June 23 and July 1, 1931, he achieved it after spending eight days, 15 hours and 51 minutes. He was accompanied on the trip by Harold Gatty, with whom he had flown from Los Angeles to Chicago on August 27, 1930 in nine hours, nine minutes.

Recounting the adventures of that flight, they published: Around the world in eight days: the flight of the Winnie Mae, which gave Post enough resources and presence to later attempt the solo flight.

Post died in a plane crash on August 15, 1935, when his plane in which he was traveling with comedian Will Rogers crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska.