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Amelia Earhart Search Forum => General discussion => Topic started by: Karen Hoy on April 15, 2016, 08:15:55 PM

Title: Old Rhinebeck Event
Post by: Karen Hoy on April 15, 2016, 08:15:55 PM

Is anyone going to the Old Rhinebeck event on May 21?

LTM,

Karen Hoy 2610 CER

Title: Re: Old Rhinebeck Event
Post by: Kurt Kummer on April 16, 2016, 10:25:03 PM

I'm not going this year, but I was there in 1973.  What a wonderful, fantastic place to see!  You'll love it!  Where else in the world can you see Nieuports and Spads and Sopwith Camels and Fokkers fly and 'fight' right in front of your eyes?  And an original 1909 Bleriot too!  What a great place.  Hmmm, maybe next year...

Title: Re: Old Rhinebeck Event
Post by: Monty Fowler on May 23, 2016, 06:28:36 AM

How did this go as far as TIGHAR's donation and presentation? Wish I had been able to attend.

LTM,
Monty Fowler, TIGHAR No. 2189 EC

Title: Re: Old Rhinebeck Event
Post by: Ric Gillespie on May 25, 2016, 02:31:00 PM

There wasn't enough interest from the TIGHAR membership to justify attending and the weather turned out to be rainy.  Maybe another time.

Title: Re: Old Rhinebeck Event
Post by: Timothy Smith on July 04, 2016, 07:02:42 PM

I had wanted to get to the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome for decades and the Lindberg event got me thinking about it again.  As it turned out, a fellow aviation fan and I were able to go a month later.  The weather was perfect all weekend and we got to take the 1929 New Standard biplane ride.  That was a blast!!  The Ryan NYP replica is still there and I was able to get an up-close look inside the cockpit. 

Like most aviation museums, they do some things really well and some things not so well.  They have a great collection, lots of original stuff and good restorations.  It is refreshingly free of WWII warbirds.  They have some rickety, unheated, overcrowded hangars. They seem to do a lot of community involvement but aren't hitting the right rich folks (the Vanderbilt and FDR places are nearby as is lots of other Hudson old money). 

Anyway, we had a great time and would go back but not necessarily related to TIGHAR.

Tim Smith
1142 CE

Title: Re: Old Rhinebeck Event
Post by: pilotart on July 20, 2016, 02:43:23 AM

Recall a wonderful Summer Saturday there about ten or fifteen years ago.

My late wife said she enjoyed it above any (of many, over 43 years) airshow she had ever attended by far. :)

Welcome access to walk around the old and replica airplanes, autos, etc.. as well as their ancient hangars and workshops.

Nice Museum and gift shop across from field, up a little hill. They said they had the airshows every weekend (Saturday & Sundays) all summer long.