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.
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
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 :)
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.
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.
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!
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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.
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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.
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.
The Rotary Star Engine is that a 2 stroke ? it sound like a moped with a broken exhaust pipe .:-) but it sounds awesome when the pilot release and play with the trottle on landing and driving on the runway.
Oberrursel engines were 2 stroke engines with valves .Exaust valve on head of each cylider and an automatic inlet valve on each piston head. The fuel mixture entered to cranckcase via the hollow cranckshaft. They had no trottle, they regulate engine revs with a cutoff or kill swtch. Lubrcation was fuel/oil premix with ricine oil.(There's the reason pilots used a scarf to cover mouth and nose to avoid fumes and prevent a diarrhea... .)
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
DojoFS was struggling with the Bleriót on his birthday. When he got to Dover, he stalled on approach, but his aircraft was still intact. That means the modern jet is easier to fly than the early flying machine. Also, the Bleriót has no instruments, his only company was the compass. He flew the Bleriót from Calais to Dover on his birthday to reenact the Daily Post Air Race in Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines. Next year, he’s getting a friend to beat his record time by doing a race in time. It’s hard to fly a plane without instruments, isn’t it, especially in fog? I'd rather get lost, swim in the Bermuda Triangle, or go inside a black hole and not come back unlike fly without guidance. What would you rather do?
Cool vid. I've always wanted to go up and see this. Do the really old planes actually lift off and fly around or do they just do a lift off down the runway? There was a great article from one of the early issues of Air & Space mag about these old WW1 planes and how physically demanding and punishing for the pilot they were to fly. Oil all over you, poor control, wind blasted, shaken. Cool stuff. That Fokker D-8 really got up and climbed, BTW!
ddavis72 the real older stuff just does a quick liftoff only feet off the ground, along the runway and then back down again. Personally I don’t think anyone would trust something like that to do a few laps around the area😂
As for the demonstration and discription of the Curtis , to turn a Motorcycle you " DO NOT LEAN, EVER". just like and Aircraft it will want to travel straight with an Aircraft you use a combination of Aileron and Rudder to Bank and initiate the turn left and then it will fly in an arc as it is in balance, and so it is with a Motor cycle in that for a left turn you turn outward ie to the right initially and the bike banks left due to gyroscopic effect of the wheels and the actual track of the wheels relative to the bike's C of G and it establishes a balanced turn left for instance where the centrifugal and gravitational forces in balance .
yes, it does , actually. I was there as a kid a few times. I remember there being some sort of dog fights between planes and "bombing" runs where the pilot threw bombs at targets
