Sixty-three years ago, former Derby Caroline Street resident Alexander F. Trabka performed an Evel Knievel-type of American death defying spectacular airborne bravery when he successfully flew a piper cub aircraft through a small and narrow water flow opening beneath the Derby-Shelton bridge. No one else has ever attempted a similar flight under the Derby-Shelton Bridge in it’s 95-year history. It would perhaps be fitting tor Mayor’s Tony Staffiieri and Mark Lauretti to jointly honor Alexander Trabka, who now resides in Monroe, as “Derby-Shelton Daredevil of the Century.”
Stanley F. Muzyk
Derby