It was 100 years ago when the first airplane left the ground in Wisconsin. It was a series of short flights and it happened in Beloit. And the pilot was A.P. Warner, a local entrepreneur who became one of aviation’s pioneers. Michael Goc of the Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fametalks with WPR’s Terry Bell about the event…
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