Preservation of Early Aviation and the Early Air Terminals |
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by Bill and Jennie Kavage |
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A top-flight lineup will bring to life the early days of aviation in Central Ohio as well as plans for preservation of its historic past in a Big Walnut Area Historical Society program at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 13, at the Myers Inn. The presentation is open to the public. |
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Aviation hero Charles A. Lindbergh’s connection to Port Columbus along with the train-plane 48-hour coast-to-coast operation of Transcontinental Air Transport will be discussed. TAT, through mergers, would eventually become Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA) in 1930. Speaking on these early aviation developments will be: aviation historian Capt. Don Peters, retired TWA pilot; local historian Russ Arledge, director of the now-closed Ohio History of Flight Museum at Port Columbus, and airline historian and photo journalist Jim "Jet" Thompson, retired fleet service agent with US Airways. Tom Kromer, co-founder of the Preserving the |
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TAT became TWA |
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the Old Columbus Air Terminal group (POCAT), will talk about the effort to save both the old terminal and Hangar #1. | ||||||
Foster Lane of Porter Township |
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Families who have stories or photographs of these early flights are invited to share them with the BWAHS at the June 13 meeting. |
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(05/20/2017) |