To know where you're going you must know where you've been. One-Eyed Pilot Innovations, OEPI, always has one eye looking to the past and one eye focused on what is to come. The company is named after Wiley Post, the son of founder and CEO Brad Post. Although Wiley is both too young to possess a pilot license and is in possession of both of his eyes, he is named after a distant relative, the famous pioneering aviator of the 1930s, Wiley Hardeman Post.

At a young age the original one-eyed pilot developed a keen interest in airplanes. After losing an eye in an oil rig accident, Wiley Post purchased his first airplane and learned to fly without any depth perception. Wiley Post is most renowned as the first pilot to fly solo around the world. In 1933 he did so with the aid of two technologically advanced devices in their final stages of development by the U.S. Army and Sperry Gyroscope Company, the autopilot and the radio direction finder. In 1934, embodying the creative, advanced thought that defines OEPI, Wiley Post collaborated with B.F. Goodrich to develop the world's first high altitude pressure suit, the predecessor of what is today recognized as an astronaut's space suit. Wiley Post used the suit on a number of successively higher and higher altitude flights to eventually climb up to the previously unimaginable altitude of 50,000 feet. During these test flights he discovered the jet stream. His pressure suit can still be viewed at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.

This innovative spirit has permeated generations of the Post family and is very present in OEPI's founder, Brad Post. Brad excelled among his peers and escaped the bonds of a rural southeast Oklahoma community. He received R.O.T.C. scholarships for both the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force and was accepted to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Brad chose the U.S. Air Force Academy and in 2002 graduated with a bachelor of science in history. This may seem contradictory, a bachelor of science in history, but it again exemplifies remaining rooted in the past while looking to the future. As a U.S. Air Force officer and pilot Brad flew the KC-135 tanker and MC-12 intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft for over 2,000 combat hours over Afghanistan and Iraq. Operating in these dynamic environments has tempered Brad to think critically under pressure. Brad has brought this experience into One-Eyed Pilot Innovations and exemplifies the innovative, pioneering spirit that defined early 20th century America, remembering where we've come from but always looking toward the horizon.