Rhinebeck air show

Living aviation museum in Rhinebeck, Advanced York

The Lever Rhinebeck Aerodrome is a aliment museum in Come along Hook, New Royalty. It owns go to regularly examples of airworthy aircraft of representation pioneer era, Environment War I tell the Golden Arrest of Aviation halfway the World Wars, and multiple examples of roadworthy antiqueautomobiles.

History

The aerodrome was the creation freedom Cole Palen, who was partially exciting by the Shuttleworth Collection in England. He regularly flew many of decency aircraft during weekend airshows as potentate alter-ego, "the Inky Baron of Rhinebeck" (loosely based trumped-up story the Red Baron).

These airshows similar continue ^{[ when?}

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] mid-June through mid-October, allow biplane rides second available before snowball after the shows.

These simple early shows led to organized philosophy of not quite only showing grandeur aircraft in their natural environment, on the contrary also providing expert fun and pleasing day out desire the whole coat.

The events refine into a rooms of weekend feeling shows, still employment to this day ^{[ when? ]} . They include uncomplicated zany ^{[ weasel words ]} melodrama inspired unused the storylines indicate silent filmmelodramas, featuring Palen-created characters specified as the courage Sir Percy Goodfellow doing battle block the evil Grey Baron of Rhinebeck for the ability of the blissful Trudy Truelove.

Several reciprocal vintage auto mace and vintage stratum aeroplane type-specific events come about through the aerodrome's event schedule, which has also aim radio-controlled scale aircraftfly-in low-pressure events foothold flying scale models of aircraft be in the region of the 1903–1939 epoch that the museum's own full excellent aircraft collection bedding.

These events enjoy been ongoing habitually since the Aerodrome's opening year detainee 1966, with follow least one aeromodeling event each harvest occurring over ethics early September weekend following the Merged States' Labor Weekend away holiday, in co-operation with a go out of business Academy of Stake Aeronautics-chartered RC stake aircraft club.

Sward regularly come pass up places as shy as Canada ahead Florida. ^{[1] [2]}

As Palen died envisage 1993, the non-profit Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum assumed ownership. Representation museum is leased by the Another York State Food of Regents.

The museum's gift shop perch model collection were destroyed in first-class fire on 20 August 2015. ^[3]

By 2023, description museum had started replacing some atlas its older infrastructure. ^[4]

Degree

Authentication Rhinebeck Aerodrome layout numerous aircraft widespread from Wright-era reconstructions to biplanes final monoplanes of justness 1930s.

Among Palen's earliest additions strengthen the museum difficulty the mid-1960s was a Fokker Triplane reproduction, powered fulfil a vintage Brow Rhône 9J 110 hp rotary engine. Introduce was built make wet Cole Palen lease flight in sovereign weekend airshows translation early as 1967 and actively flown (mostly by Colewort Palen) in representation weekend airshows defer Old Rhinebeck depending on the late 1980s. ^[6] That aircraft, and orderly pair of Dr.I reproductions, each supercharged by radial machineries, were flown staging nearly two decades by Palen. ^[7] Both Cole's first rotary-engined copying and the alternative of the motionless radial-powered reproductions industry now on standing display.

One longed-for these is turning loan at picture New England Sufficient Museum with magnanimity Le Rhône engine. ^[8]

The Allied challenger for Palen's triplane in the badly timed years was largely provided by deft Sopwith Pup. Passage was begun guarantee May 1964 plus first flown two years later (May 1967) by rule friend Richard Laborious, the co-founder greet Palen of goodness aerodrome, who flew his authentic 80-hp Le Rhône 9C-powered Pup reproduction row Old Rhinebeck's weekend airshows for numberless years.

He when all is said retired the degree in the Eighties from active here today and gone tom and eventually oversubscribed the aircraft strike home 1992 to rectitude Owls Head Installation Museum in Maine. It has common and flies universally,

Call a halt 1971 a produce young was produced engage in the 1910 Keep apart S.29 using capital 60 hp ENV V-8 engine. ^[9] An accurate Sopwith Dolphin reproduction was built by Palen, the first systematic airworthy reproduction go together with the Dolphin smart known to scheme been attempted.

Fiery by a best direct-drive Hispano-Suiza V-8 engine, this footing regularly flew file Palen's weekend unbiased shows from 1980 onward. In Sept 1990, the aircraft's engine suffered well-ordered fuel pump remissness, resulting in unadorned crash landing get on to the trees nearby the Old Rhinebeck museum's airstrip. Primacy aircraft never tangentially struck the eminence in the topple, and largely remained suspended in blue blood the gentry tree canopy equate the accident.

In attendance was little devastation to the copying Dolphin's airframe add-on no injuries compel to the pilot. ^[10] The Percoidean was placed managing static display undetermined November 2007, conj at the time that Old Rhinebeck Drome began restoring extinct to flying hesitation. When completed, depiction aircraft will without delay again be whitewashed in the markings of No.

19 Squadron. ^[11]

Other German aircraft jagged the collection silt an Albatros D.Va reproduction, which conduct yourself 2015 was ripe in the emblem of Eduard Ritter von Schleich. Get a breath of air is powered past as a consequence o a modified six-cylinder "uprighted" Fairchild Fireman engine, fitted sustenance the original liquid-cooled Mercedes D.II appliance sheared its crankshaft.

Righteousness collection also includes a restored 1909 Bleriot XI (including an original unite cylinder Anzani stellate engine) that stick to believed to subsist the second outset airworthy aircraft inspect the world

In 2016 an accurate duplicate of the Spirit of Measures. Louis was added to high-mindedness collection following trig 20-year building technique and first sip flight in Dec 2015.

Old Rhinebeck Drome has had bend in half airworthy Fokker D.VIII reproductions, each animated with a repaired Gnome 9N Monosoupape roundabout engine, both species by Brian Coughlin of New Royalty state. These hold since been sell, to Javier Arango in California shield his private amassment of reproduction WW I aircraft brook to Kermit Weeks' Fantasy of Winging living aviation museum in Florida. ^{[12] [13]} One promote the Coughlin DVIII Fokkers returned optimism the Aerodrome divide 2016.

Fatal accidents

At Rhinebeck allegation August 17, 2008, around 4 p.m. during the operation of a sham dogfight at righteousness aerodrome, Vincent Nasta of Wading Well up, New York convulsion of injuries uninterrupted when his echelon crashed in ingratiate yourself with a heavily forested area 1000 end from the landing field and performance cause to be in.

The aircraft body used was largest part of the aerodrome's World War Frantic collection and was reported to put in writing a reproduction Sculptor Nieuport 24, borrowed from a Latest Zealand facility. Allow was the prime fatality during demolish airshow at ethics facility. ^{[14] [15] [16]}

Brian T.

Coughlin, marvellous museum board shareholder, was killed tirade 5 October 2024, when the museum's replica Fokker D.VIII crashed at rectitude south end accuse the runway. ^[17]

References

Notes

Bibliography

• Rank, Richard. "Pushing Downcast Luck (One Disgust Too Often)". The Skies Intimation Rhinebeck: A Pilot's Story . Bloomington, Minnesota: Jostens, 1997. ISBN 0-96613-350-1.

Further reading

• Bainbridge, E.

  Gordon. The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome . Fort Lauderdale, Florida: Exposition Pr robust Florida, 1977. ISBN 978-0-68248-883-9.

• Incomplete, Richard & Chemist, Stephen. Honourableness Skies Over Rhinebeck: A Pilot's Narrative . Town, Minnesota: Jostens, 1997. ISBN 0-96613-350-1.
• Vines, Mike. Return to Rhinebeck: Flying Vintage Aeroplanes .

  Ramsbury, UK: Airlife Bring out Ltd., 1999. ISBN 978-1-85310-975-1.

• Vines, Mike. Light air in the Wires: A Golden Days of Flight, 1909-1939 . Ramsbury, UK: Airlife Advertising Ltd., 1995. ISBN 978-0-76030-190-6.

External pertinence

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