Wiley Post’s 1933 solo flight around the world

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception 

"...the most remarkable flight in history ... like pulling a rabbit out of a hat or sawing a woman in half.” -- Howard Hughes

Today in 1933, the world record for flying around the world was broken by this man and machine: http://s.si.edu/19dlUq5

Photo: Rudy Arnold, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution