During the last few weeks Moose has been putting up Images on the Reno Air Shows, and those images rekindled a recessed idea of mine……. I had a thought early in the year to revisit a long forgotten but fondly remembered father & son trip that occurred some 45 years here in upstate New York. My dad was a career pilot for the USAF, and an avid small engine pilot.
The trip for us, started in his coal country homestead of Giradville, PA where as a young man he had lifted off from the Gordon farm airfield to earn his wings. We then headed up to Rhinebeck to visit his dream journey down memory lane. You see Rheinbeck was only a few years old at the time, started by a pilot, Cole Palen, who wanted to collect, preserve and barnstorm the pre WWII aircraft from the golden age (1900-1930) of the Aeroplane age of discovery.
My old man knew those planes, saw them as a boy, read about their pilots and exploits, reveled in the aviation technology…it was how he eventually flew out of and away from the disastrous coal mines that claimed the lives of some of relatives and joined the Army Air Corps … it was cool to revisit Rhinebeck … and I’ll be posting up more photo’s of some of those great birds in flight during the week.
