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Trip to Old Rhinebeck

Posted by John S on Mon Jun 23, 2003 04:13:25 PM

All,

Well I drove up to Old Rhinebeck yesterday - fantastic place, really atmospheric and I would recommend a trip to everyone.

There was only one problem - rain !!!!
And boy-o-boy did it rain, really torrential downpours all day.

This did mean that, of course, they didn?t have their planned air display.

I did get talking to one of the Old Rhinebeck guys up there and he said that they did manage to get a couple of planes up on Saturday (just my luck missing it by a day) but they have been rained in for the last 4/5 weekends which has meant that a lot of the pre-season work hasn?t taken place. He also mentioned that I was the second Brit there yesterday the other one being Melvin something-or-another who works for Aeroplane Monthly, so I was getting soaked in good company :o)
As there was no chance of having an air display he said it would be ok if I went over onto the live side of the airfield and wandered around the hangers over that side which are usually off limits.

So all in all a fantastic place and a excellent, if somewhat soggy, trip

Once I get my films processed (still saving for my digital camera) I will post some up on Webshots

Hope this is of interest to some

John

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