Aerial tribute to WW1

David G · Nov 11, 2018

Here are some neat old planes still running
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jeffcat · Nov 11, 2018

In my area the place to go is Rehnbeck, Ny. The museum looks like twenty people have their own private collections and tossed them all into a bunch of backyard built hangers and out buildings. They do have a bunch of aircraft and if you go on several big weekends they have shows. All kinds of stuff flying.

Philip d · Nov 11, 2018

That is very nice,thank you for sharing!

Charlie M · Nov 11, 2018

I was at a museum last week that has some of those early planes. They scared me just looking at them. Took some real guts in my opinion to fly one.

JF in MI · Nov 11, 2018

Yup, BTDT about 45 years ago.

RCP · Nov 11, 2018

I found Rhinebeck NY but not Rehnbeck NY.

Rich

Ian Beale · Nov 11, 2018

Here they worked on

If you could ride a horse you could ride a motorbike

If you could ride a mototbike you could fly a plane

Goose · Nov 11, 2018

According to the book, "Ghosts In The Air", by Martin Cadin, the Red Baron's WWI red triplane was seen in the air over Europe quite a number of times during WWII. A sufficient number of pilots saw it that it wasn't the figment of one pilot's overactive imagination.

It would always appear in front of a lone fighter plane on patrol, fly ahead although they were travelling several time as fast as a WWI plane would have been capable of, and ultimately vanish into a cloud.

Cadin solicited stories for the book, and tossed 90% of the responses. The book consists of only the stories for which there was absolutely no rational explanation.

Like the B17 bomber that returned from a mission in WWII, landed normally, and taxied up to its regular parking spot. The engines shut down routinely. When no crew appeared, ground crew entered the plane and found all crew members dead, and they had obviously been dead for quite some time. After the bodies had been removed, the airplane self-ignited and burned to the ground. Try to explain that.

It's an absorbing book.

4520BW · Nov 11, 2018

There was an interesting article on the Red Baron in national geographic in April about him being shot down.(100th years in april) The local airfield was built in 1942 to train pilots for ww2 ( Tuskegee airmen too) and after the war foriegn plane were sent there to be torn down and inspected. Rumor is a German prototype jet was there too! When it was deactivated the planes were buried. My great uncle was a vet so he got to farm part of the land owned by the government and said he seen them burying alot is equipment.

sms · Nov 12, 2018

Another place is Owlshead Transportation Museum in Maine.
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