{"id":30822385,"date":"2026-11-02T10:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T09:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/lockheed-vega-plywood-record-breaker-earhart-wiley-post-winnie-mae\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T10:12:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T09:12:30","slug":"lockheed-vega-plywood-record-breaker-earhart-wiley-post-winnie-mae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/lockheed-vega-plywood-record-breaker-earhart-wiley-post-winnie-mae\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Vega: The Plywood Record-Breaker of Earhart and Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\r\n\r\n<style>\r\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid 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Aboard were the Australian explorer Hubert Wilkins and his pilot, Carl Ben Eielson. Their machine was not made of steel or aluminium. Its fuselage was a shell of glued spruce, less than a quarter of an inch thick.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Roughly 20 hours of flying later, after a blizzard forced them down within sight of their goal and kept them pinned there for days, they reached Spitsbergen. It was the first flight from North America across the Arctic Ocean to Europe. The aircraft was the third Lockheed Vega ever built.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Over the next seven years, the Vega carried Amelia Earhart alone across the Atlantic and took Wiley Post around the world, twice. Two of them now belong to the Smithsonian. This is the story of the aircraft itself: a wooden airliner that turned into the record-breaker of its age.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6f9;border:1px solid #e2e7ee;padding:18px 22px;margin:22px 0 26px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:700;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:18px\"><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Type:<\/strong> Lockheed Vega, single-engine high-wing cabin monoplane<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Designer:<\/strong> Jack Northrop, for Allan Loughead&rsquo;s Lockheed Aircraft Company<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>First flight:<\/strong> 4 July 1927 (<em>Golden Eagle<\/em>), Los Angeles<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Construction:<\/strong> Moulded spruce monocoque fuselage, cantilever wooden wing<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Engines:<\/strong> 225 hp Wright Whirlwind (Vega 1) to 450 hp Pratt &amp; Whitney Wasp (Vega 5)<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Top speed:<\/strong> About 135 mph (Vega 1); up to 185 mph (Vega 5C)<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Built:<\/strong> 131, according to the Smithsonian<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Famous flights:<\/strong> Wilkins\/Eielson Arctic 1928; Earhart Atlantic 1932; Post and Gatty 1931; Post solo 1933<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A garage in Hollywood<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The Vega was the first aircraft of a brand-new company. In December 1926, Allan Loughead, the self-taught aviation pioneer, and his former draftsman Jack Northrop set up the Lockheed Aircraft Company, using the phonetic spelling of the family name. Northrop was chief engineer. They wanted a fast, streamlined monoplane for four passengers and a pilot.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The two men disagreed about one thing: the wing. Northrop wanted a self-supporting cantilever wing with no struts at all. Loughead worried that the public would not want to fly in an aircraft without visible wing supports. Northrop won. The Vega would carry its one-piece wooden wing on top of the fuselage, braced entirely from the inside.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The first Vega, named <em>Golden Eagle<\/em>, flew from Lockheed&rsquo;s Los Angeles plant on 4 July 1927 with test pilot Eddie Bellande at the controls. He landed delighted.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;Boys, she&rsquo;s a dandy, a real joy to fly!&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Eddie Bellande<\/strong> &mdash; Lockheed test pilot, after the Vega&rsquo;s first flight, 4 July 1927<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Its first owner, the newspaper publisher George Hearst, entered <em>Golden Eagle<\/em> in the Dole race from California to Hawaii in August 1927. It was the fastest aircraft in the field, but it never arrived and no trace of it was found. Lockheed&rsquo;s first Vega was lost within weeks. The company&rsquo;s fortunes were saved by Wilkins, who had watched it on a test flight over San Francisco and ordered one for the Arctic.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why a wooden fuselage was so fast<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The Vega&rsquo;s secret was the way it was built. Northrop had developed a moulded plywood monocoque, a self-supporting shell, for the little Lockheed S-1 racer of 1918. For the Vega, three sets of spruce strips were soaked with glue and laid in a semicircular concrete mould that looked like a bathtub. Under a clamped lid, a rubber balloon was inflated inside to press the layers hard against the mould.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Twenty-four hours later, a smooth half-shell came out. Two of them were glued and nailed together around a light framework of wooden rings. According to the Smithsonian, the method cut the time needed from several days to about 20 minutes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/lockheed-vega-wooden-fuselage-structure-naca-1927.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photos of the wooden ring frames and moulded plywood half-shells of the Lockheed Vega fuselage under construction\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Wooden ring frames and a moulded spruce half-shell of the Vega fuselage, from NACA Aircraft Circular No. 61 (1927). The smooth, strut-free shell was the key to the Vega&rsquo;s speed. NACA \/ public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The result was a fuselage with no bracing wires, no fabric and no bumps. Together with the internally braced wing, it gave the Vega a remarkably clean shape for 1927. On the original 225 hp Wright Whirlwind, the Vega 1 cruised at about 120 mph and topped out at around 135 mph. Later versions added a NACA engine cowling and teardrop wheel pants to cut the drag of the radial engine and landing gear.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8AQCcdbUO9s\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">Kermit Weeks&rsquo; restoration team glues a fresh plywood skin onto a Vega fuselage, showing just how the wooden shell is built.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The 1929 Vega 5 swapped in a 450 hp Pratt &amp; Whitney Wasp, gained two seats and cruised at 155 mph. A late Vega 5C with the NACA cowl could reach 185 mph. Vegas dominated the speed events at the National Air Races in Cleveland at the end of the 1920s, and Lockheed adopted a slogan: &ldquo;It takes a Lockheed to beat a Lockheed.&rdquo;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Not an easy aeroplane<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>All that streamlining came at a price. The Vega was slippery on approach, and the pilot sat behind a big engine with very little forward view on take-off and landing. Elinor Smith, the teenage record-setter of the late 1920s, summed up its landing manners in her memoir.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;&hellip;all the glide potential of a boulder falling off a mountain.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Elinor Smith<\/strong> &mdash; Record-setting pilot, on the Vega&rsquo;s landing characteristics, in her memoir <em>Aviatrix<\/em> (1981)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The pilots who loved the Vega were the ones who needed range and speed more than comfort. Hubert Wilkins went straight from his Arctic triumph to Antarctica, and in December 1928 he and Eielson used Vegas to make the first aeroplane flights over the continent. Wilkins was knighted. Eielson, whose name lives on at <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/eielson\/\">Eielson Air Force Base<\/a> in Alaska, received the Harmon Trophy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"max-width:550px;margin:0 auto 28px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?id=1130986633321361408&theme=light\" style=\"width:100%;height:560px;border:none;overflow:hidden\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Little Red Bus<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Amelia Earhart bought a Vega 5B in 1930 and called it her &ldquo;Little Red Bus.&rdquo; After a nose-over accident that year, the fuselage was replaced and strengthened to carry extra fuel tanks, and she added three types of compass, a drift indicator and a more powerful engine. She would end up owning four Vegas and leasing two more.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/lockheed-vega-5b-nc7952-earhart-1932.jpg\" alt=\"Amelia Earhart\u2019s Lockheed Vega 5B NC7952 parked on a sandy airfield around 1932\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Earhart&rsquo;s Vega 5B, registration 7952, around the time of her 1932 solo transatlantic and transcontinental flights. Note the NACA cowling and wheel pants. US Navy photo (Quackenbush collection) \/ public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>On 20 May 1932, five years to the day after Charles Lindbergh took off for Paris, she left Harbor Grace in Newfoundland alone. The Smithsonian records a leaking fuel tank, a cracked exhaust manifold spitting flames along the cowling, and ice that pushed the Vega down to just above the waves. About 15 hours and 2,026 miles later, she landed in a field near Londonderry in Northern Ireland, the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo and nonstop.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y-itPeJOyzI\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum footage of Amelia Earhart departing Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, in her Vega on 20 May 1932.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Three months later the same aircraft carried her nonstop from Los Angeles to Newark, 2,447 miles in about 19 hours, the first solo nonstop crossing of the United States by a woman. In January 1935 she flew a newer Vega 5C from Hawaii to Oakland, the first solo flight from Hawaii to the US mainland. You can read more about her career in our story <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/amelia-earhart-first-across-the-atlantic-then-she-vanished\/\">Amelia Earhart: First Across the Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;I wanted the flight just to contribute. I could only hope one more passage across that part of the Pacific would mark a little more clearly the pathway over which an air service of the future will inevitably ply.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Amelia Earhart<\/strong> &mdash; On her January 1935 solo flight from Hawaii to Oakland in a Lockheed Vega 5C (quoted by the National Air and Space Museum)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Winnie Mae: around the world, twice<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The most famous Vega of all was bought new in June 1930 by the Oklahoma oilman F. C. Hall, who named it after his daughter and hired Wiley Post to fly it. Post won the 1930 Los Angeles to Chicago air derby in 9 hours, 9 minutes and 4 seconds, a result still painted on the fuselage.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/lockheed-vega-5c-winnie-mae-nr105w-1935.jpg\" alt=\"Wiley Post\u2019s white Lockheed Vega Winnie Mae NR105W with its record flights painted on the fuselage\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\"><em>Winnie Mae<\/em>, NR105W, in 1935, with its record flights lettered on the fuselage. San Diego Air &amp; Space Museum Archives \/ no known copyright restrictions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>On 23 June 1931, Post and the Australian navigator Harold Gatty left New York to fly around the world. With stops across Europe, Russia, Siberia, Alaska and Canada, they were back on 1 July after 8 days, 15 hours and 51 minutes. A grateful Hall gave the aircraft to Post.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xDxNORQa1Gk\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">British Path&eacute; newsreel of Wiley Post and Harold Gatty with <em>Winnie Mae<\/em> at Roosevelt Field before their 1931 round-the-world flight.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In July 1933 Post did it again, this time alone, helped by a Sperry autopilot and a radio compass. He flew 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes, the first solo flight around the world. Our story <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wiley-post-solo-round-the-world-winnie-mae-pressure-suit\/\">Wiley Post: The One-Eyed Pilot Who Flew Around the World Alone<\/a> follows the man; here the machine is the hero.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"max-width:550px;margin:0 auto 28px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?id=1418245207234170887&theme=light\" style=\"width:100%;height:560px;border:none;overflow:hidden\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Then Post took <em>Winnie Mae<\/em> into the stratosphere. Its wooden fuselage could not be pressurised, so he wore a pressure suit he developed with B. F. Goodrich, and dropped the landing gear after take-off to land on a skid. On 15 March 1935 he flew from Burbank to Cleveland, 2,035 miles in 7 hours and 19 minutes, at times reaching a ground speed of 340 mph, proof that he was riding the jet stream.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The end of the wooden era<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The Smithsonian counts 131 Vegas built. Lockheed&rsquo;s new parent company, the Detroit Aircraft Corporation, built Vegas with metal fuselages, and the Vega&rsquo;s descendants, such as the low-wing <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/lockheed-orion-swissair-verkehrshaus-faster-than-fighters\/\">Lockheed Orion<\/a>, pushed the formula further. By the mid-1930s, all-metal designs such as Lockheed&rsquo;s own Electra had taken over, and the moulded spruce shell was obsolete.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/lockheed-vega-winnie-mae-udvar-hazy.jpg\" alt=\"Wiley Post\u2019s Lockheed Vega Winnie Mae on display at the Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center beside a photo of Post in his pressure suit\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\"><em>Winnie Mae<\/em> on display at the Smithsonian&rsquo;s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in 2009, with a photo of Post in his pressure suit beside it. Photo: Gary Todd \/ CC0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>But no wooden aeroplane ever did more. Earhart&rsquo;s red Vega 5B went to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and reached the Smithsonian in 1966. Post&rsquo;s widow sold <em>Winnie Mae<\/em> to the Smithsonian in 1936. Today both are in the National Air and Space Museum&rsquo;s collection: two thin shells of glued spruce that once shrank the world.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (Lockheed Vega 5B, Amelia Earhart; Lockheed Vega Winnie Mae), US Centennial of Flight Commission, NACA Aircraft Circular No. 61, Wikipedia (Lockheed Vega; Winnie Mae; Allan Loughead; Hubert Wilkins; Carl Ben Eielson; Jack Northrop)<\/em><\/p>\r\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\r\n\r\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>When did the Lockheed Vega first fly?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Lockheed Vega first flew on 4 July 1927 from Lockheed&rsquo;s Los Angeles plant, with test pilot Eddie Bellande at the controls. The prototype, named Golden Eagle, was bought by publisher George Hearst and lost without trace in the Dole race to Hawaii in August 1927.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Who designed the Lockheed Vega?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Lockheed Vega was designed by Jack Northrop as chief engineer of the Lockheed Aircraft Company, which he founded with Allan Loughead in December 1926. Northrop insisted on a strut-free cantilever wing and used a moulded plywood monocoque fuselage, a technique first developed for the Lockheed S-1 racer of 1918.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why was the Lockheed Vega so fast?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Lockheed Vega was fast because of its clean shape. Its fuselage was a smooth moulded spruce shell with no bracing wires, and its wooden wing was braced internally with no struts. Later Vegas added a NACA engine cowling and wheel pants, and a Vega 5C could reach about 185 mph.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How many Lockheed Vegas were built?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">According to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, 131 Lockheed Vegas were built. Production ran from 1927 into the early 1930s and included the original Vega 1, the more powerful Wasp-engined Vega 5 series, and metal-fuselaged versions built by the Detroit Aircraft Corporation.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Which Lockheed Vega did Amelia Earhart fly across the Atlantic?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Amelia Earhart flew a red Lockheed Vega 5B, which she called her Little Red Bus, alone across the Atlantic on 20&ndash;21 May 1932, from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to a field near Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The aircraft is now in the collection of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What was the Winnie Mae?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Winnie Mae was a Lockheed Vega flown by Wiley Post. With navigator Harold Gatty he flew it around the world in 8 days, 15 hours and 51 minutes in 1931, then alone in 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes in 1933. The Smithsonian acquired it in 1936.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Where can I see a Lockheed Vega today?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum holds two of the most famous Lockheed Vegas: Amelia Earhart&rsquo;s red Vega 5B and Wiley Post&rsquo;s Winnie Mae. 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