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The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome.
Having lived near by, I had been there many times in the 1970's. Also, the Jaycees had a money-raising concession stand there and I had volunteered to work there several times. I met Cole Palen who had started the whole thing and knew one of the other regular pilots who was also an IBM engineer.
The most interesting plane to me was a Fokker Dr.1 triplane. Richthofen, "the Red Baron", flew one of these to become an ace. In had Le Rhone 9 cylinder rotary engine where the cylinders attached to the propeller rotated around a center. It used castor oil for fuel and was "pulsed" and not run in a smooth constant fashion.
Having lived near by, I had been there many times in the 1970's. Also, the Jaycees had a money-raising concession stand there and I had volunteered to work there several times. I met Cole Palen who had started the whole thing and knew one of the other regular pilots who was also an IBM engineer.
The most interesting plane to me was a Fokker Dr.1 triplane. Richthofen, "the Red Baron", flew one of these to become an ace. In had Le Rhone 9 cylinder rotary engine where the cylinders attached to the propeller rotated around a center. It used castor oil for fuel and was "pulsed" and not run in a smooth constant fashion.