He was arrested in 1921 and sent to the Oklahoma State Reformatory, serving more than a year there, and was paroled in the summer of 1922. The work was also unsteady, and he turned briefly to armed robbery. Germany agreed to an armistice before he completed his training, the war ended, and he went to work as a " roughneck" in the Oklahoma oilfields. Joining the training camp at the University of Oklahoma, he learned radio technology. ĭuring World War I Post wanted to become a pilot in the U.S. Seven months later, he returned to Oklahoma and went to work at the Chickasaw and Lawton Construction Company. The event so inspired him that he immediately enrolled in the Sweeney Automobile and Aviation School in Kansas City. The plane was a Curtiss-Wright " Pusher type". Young Wiley's first view of an aircraft in flight came in 1913 at the county fair in Lawton, Oklahoma. By 1920, his family settled on a farm near Maysville, Oklahoma. He was an indifferent student, but managed to complete the sixth grade.
His family moved to Oklahoma when he was five. His father was William Francis and his mother was Mae Quinlan Post, a person of mixed Cherokee heritage. Post was born to parents who cultivated cotton on a farm near Grand Saline, Texas. 3.1 Attempted high altitude non-stop transcontinental flights.
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