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Italy’s Wiley Post
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The year 1933 saw the world endure a turbulent twelve months. The Great Depression affected most countries on the planet, unemployment was at an all time high, and in Germany, which was particularly affected, Adolf Hitler was appointed the Chancellor and promptly banned all other political parties, turning Germany into a One Party State; we all know how that played out.
On a more positive note in that same year the rather aptly named Wiley Post became the first pilot to fly solo around the
