Flying high with thoughts of Amelia

With the opening of the new film, "Amelia," about the life and flights of world famous aviator Amelia Earhart, thoughts turn to York's early aviation history.

In 1931, six years before Earhart's mysterious disappearance on an around-the-world flight, two men planned to fly from the old York airport -- on Haines Road, near Mt. Rose Avenue -- to Buenos Aries, Argentina. The convoluted round trip would have been 7,700 miles.

But it never happened.

Because of mechanical problems, Martin Jensen and Charles H. d'Ardussey were grounded and the plane, named "The York, Pa." never took off.

A program booklet for "the greatest flight that never was" still exists. So does the home along Haines Road that was the original control building for the airport.