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 ...
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 ...