RANTOUL, Ill. (WCIA) — Thanks to the Experimental Aircraft Association, you can experience traveling the way people did 100 years ago. They have a 1929 Ford Tri-Motor airplane at the Rantoul Aviation ...
On Nov. 16, 1920, a Curtiss biplane crash-landed in the Allegheny River near the Brackenridge intake plant at River Avenue and Morgan Street. This was the first airplane crash to occur in the ...
When Tony Romeo and his crew saw the bright yellow shape resembling a cross on their computer, they thought they had answered one of the great mysteries of the 20th century. Surely, the grainy image ...
In the 1920s, plane windows were just open holes, and airports were more like garages. During the Prohibition era, cargo trains were searched for alcohol. Traveling by cruise ship was a black-tie ...
In 1928, travelers wanting to go from California to Seattle could purchase a ticket for a seat on a transport biplane operated by Pacific Air Transport. The company was owned by Boeing Airplane Co.