"Didn't Prove a Thing"

Wiley Post, who flew the monoplane Winnie Mae around the world in eight days with Harold Gatty, sat on the edge of his bed in a Chicago hotel room one day last week, talking to a reporter for North American Newspaper Alliance while he dressed. Flyer Post:

"Our flight didn't prove a thing. No stunt flying does. It is silly to say that such flights are made to develop aviation. No flyer would use an experimental device on such a trip. Only the equipment already proved sound is acceptable to a long distance flyer. We didn't advance the mechanics of aviation an inch. . . .

"Am I going to retire? That's a good one! Lindbergh is the only guy who made enough off his flight to retire. . . . The day of money-making flights is past. Lindbergh was the one and only 'natural.' A man who knows was telling me how much that fellow made. It is unbelievable; the public has no idea. It's partly the hard times, of course, that killed the game. But the public seems to have lost interest as well. . . . Oh, I suppose I'll stick to aviation. I've had some offers."

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