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TRI-MOTOR RIDE

Thanks so much for the story on the development and history of the Ford Tri-Motor [“Tale of the Tin Goose,” November 2020]. I have always been fascinated by that aircraft. Back in the mid-2000s I bought as a Father’s Day gift a flight for my Dad and me on the very plane featured in your article when it appeared in Smyrna, Tenn., at the site of the former Sewart Air Force Base (near Nashville).

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