I visited the Aerodrome while on a cross country bicycle tour and was heartened to see some of these old, original designs still flying even if some of them use safer, more reliable modern powerplants.
This is Brilliant!! Just to be able to hear these original engines running would be enough but seeing them taxi/fly: Brilliant! Being there in person would be the only improvement for me. The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome is now on my A List. A very well recorded video-thank you for sharing with us all!
I grew up near Rhinebeck, New York and some of my high school teachers used to fly and work on those old planes back around 1970. Whenever we had out of town visitors on summer weekends, we'd usually take them over for one of their flying shows. It makes me a little homesick watching this from out here in Los Angeles but it's nice to see the tradition continues.
Incredible place. I’m a classic car restorer and these are just fascinating to see operate and appreciate the true craftsmanship involved. I went in high school with my family and although I was a precocious teenager I still enjoyed the planes
Thanks for posting! I never knew there were air shows for old planes like that! I certainly wouldn't take that long skinny plane, French hariot, above 6 feet either!
Surprising machines true works of art congratulations for the wonderful video and also to everyone who contributes to keep aviation history really alive 🛩
What a piece of shit those old engines were. Jesus Christ it’s a amazing they all didn’t give up on flying. Beautiful planes and super fun video to watch. Thanks for posting
Not sure about exact date, but sometime around late sixties (1960s!), while building x-country time for my commercial, I flew up to Rhinebeck, from Princeton Av. Overflying the field, I had thought I'd land and visit. In a PA-28, Piper Cherokee! That was the end of that idea. I was pretty good, had proven it, with short field work, was confident I could land there. With trees all around and at the ends of the strip ... the low pass down the runway was more than suffcient to end that idea. Very short by modern standards. And adding to the appreciation and talent of the guys who fly these ancient machines in and out of there. Good show, guys!
We got in there years ago in my buddies 210, believe it or not. We were going to the show and landed at Sky Park, but there was no shuttle so we hopped over and landed at Rhinebeck. Used every bit of the runway, even that hill at the end :)
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i live 3 fricking miles from this place one time over my yard they wrote an acual smiley face im not kidding with that smoke steam stuff thats comes out the back of a plane
I love the way those guys have the courage to fly those 1909 and 1910 planes. But I thing back to the guys who first flew them way back then. The courage to do the first test flight not really knowing what would happen.
Went for a ride in the 1928 Standard at Rhinebeck... was phenomenal. Everything I had hoped it would be. But as a historian and plane enthusiast, my goal is to fly in an original ww1 plane. That would be a dream come true.
The old pioneer of flight had balls of steel. Some of those engines seem that the'd have trouble running a lawnmower. Let alone get a manned airplane up to elevation.
That is probably the best restoration of a early 1900's video I have ever seen. I love how you put in audio to recreate the airshow from this otherwise, silent movie.
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Was at Rhinebeck years ago, they had a French aircraft that used linseed oil for lubrication and the block/prop spun around the crank shaft. Amazing stuff back then.
Woah! That's cool the 1909 Bleriot was found in Laconia, NH- I'm originally from S. CA, and LA was only a couple hours away, but now I live in NH, and Laconia is only a couple hours drive away!
We took a ride in the front cockpit of a biplane called a Standard. We hopped out, ran around and joined the line to go again. We still have the tee shirts. Magical place.
5:58 the camera person did a great job capturing the pilot working the controls, you can see how hands on and dangerous it is and was to fly these early airplanes.
Such Magnificent Array of Class Acts! “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” - Leonardo Davinci ''And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?'' -Benjamin Franklin ' ''How much more then; than those who've chosen straddle and jump from between such wings?'' - Former U.S. Paratrooper Sgt. William ''Rock'' Gilpin 82nd Abn. 1/504 Inf. '71-'74
It's worth going out of your way to visit there. Just be sure of their schedules first. There's also an eagle rescue organization as well as one for wolves not so far away. Enough to fill a weekend.
