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Will Rogers might not have died if Wiley Post had taken my advice about his airplane

When I was a licensed “ramp rat” at the Pacific Airmotive Company in Burbank, California, during the thirties, a parade of American flying legends brought their equally famous airplanes to us for servicing and maintenance.

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