I had the pleasure last Thursday of flying in a 90-year-old Ford Tri-Motor that inaugurated transcontinental air service back in 1929.
Interestingly, it was the very same plane I flew in back in 1974 when TWA was commemorating the 45th anniversary of that aviation milestone.
Both rides were on media flights - the first when I was a reporter for The Indianapolis News and the one last week as a "special correspondent" for The Lebanon Reporter.
I sat on the starboard side of the plane both times, watching the huge right radial engine throbbing along.
I think I wrote a better story this time than I did in '74.
It was named City of Reno back in 1974.
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