SIOUX CITY, IA -
Folks in Sioux City have a chance to travel back in time September 15th & 16th.
It might sound too good to be true, but it's as easy as hopping in an airplane and taking a flight.
When you hear the roar of the engines, you know you're in for something special.
"She's a really graceful, wonderful older lady to fly," said Rand Siegfried, referring to a 1929 Ford Trimotor airplane before piloting the craft over Sioux City Thursday. "She'll do anything you ask of her with grace and aplomb, as long as it's what she wants to do."
The plane is a relic from a time when airplanes were made mostly of fabric, a "tin goose," one of only five or six Ford Trimotor planes still flying.
"It's like a time machine," said Siegfried. "The sounds are the same as '29, the view out the window, the view inside, the smells, and we'll be flying about the same altitude, about 1,000 feet, and that's what they tended to fly back in the day."
When that "time machine" takes to the air, passengers are in for quite the cruise.
They'll fly at 1,000 feet and nearly 85 miles an hour. It's all with a spectacular view and a level of comfort that just might make modern airplanes a jealous.
"It flies slow enough, you fly with the bumps, you don't jar through them like a modern airplane," said Siegfried.
If you want to go for a flight in the Ford Trimotor you can. It'll be at the Mid America Air Museum from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM on September 15th & 16th.
Rides cost $80 per person for adults, and $40 for kids 6 to 16.
