Knute Rockne crash site changes hands

[Matthew]

Not a really big deal, except that KS prairie is going for $2600/acre.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article201761754.html

 

[Dav8or]

I guess somebody could have bought the land and built an airport on the site... but I'm not sure why? It's nice to read about people like the guy that took it upon himself to maintain the memorial just because "it needed doin'".

 

[Matthew]

I never made the connection until now: Transcontinental & Western Air later became Trans World Airlines (TWA).

edit:

And some background on the crash, and its effect on US commercial avaition - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_Transcontinental_&_Western_Air_Fokker_F-10_crash

 

[Fearless Tower]

I never made the connection until now: Transcontinental & Western Air later became Trans World Airlines (TWA).

edit:

And some background on the crash, and its effect on US commercial avaition - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_Transcontinental_&_Western_Air_Fokker_F-10_crash

It was Howard Hughes that changed the name when he went after Pan Am in the international market.

 

[timwinters]

Yeah, but was he saving his urine in a jar yet?

 

[flyingron]

I don't know where I'll be then, Doc, but I won't smell too good that's for sure.

 

[weilke]

That's a lot of money for pasture Better be some productive cows.

 

[Fearless Tower]

Yeah, but was he saving his urine in a jar yet?

I think that came later….after he power-on stalled a Connie and scared the crap out of everyone including himself….

 

[Brad Smith]

What about the crash site of Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper? Did they preserve that site?

 

[Matthew]

What about the crash site of Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper? Did they preserve that site?

Sort of...

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/12159