Trail Blazers: The flight Trail never forgot

Trail Blazers: The flight Trail never forgot

For years, I wasn’t entirely sure whether the story was real. Like many stories in Trail, it existed somewhere between history and folklore. Someone once flew an airplane under the Old Trail Bridge. Not over it. Under it. I’ve thought about that story often over the years while driving past the old bridge or more recently standing on the Columbia River Skywalk looking across at the towering structure that once connected West and East Trail. Then…