As we lurch headfirst into another workweek showered with status updates, Google alerts, and tweet after tweet all whizzing by us at lightening speed, take pause this Monday morning to look back on the triumphs of a different era, thanks to King Rose Archives who published this video of the first passenger flight from Detroit to Cleveland in 1928. It’s quite remarkable stuff, and a gentle reminder of how far we’ve truly come.

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This article appears in Apr 22-28, 2015.

Alaina Nutile is the Web Editor who oversees all digital content and social media initiatives for Cleveland Scene Magazine and Detroit Metro Times. Before joining the staff in June 2013, she interned at Business Insider in New York City, and at La Hora in Quito, Ecuador. Alaina is a graduate of Kalamazoo College in Michigan, where she double majored in English and Spanish. Her interests include Japanese food, Breaking Bad, and career development advising.

One reply on “Watch Footage from the First Passenger Flight from Detroit to Cleveland in 1928”

  1. A different angle to this remarkable history is chronicled in “Barons of the Sky: From Early Flight to Strategic Warfare: The Story of the American Aerospace Industry ” by Wayne Biddle.

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