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Sunday my buddy Jay dragged a bunch of us out to the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome for their 50th anniversary airshow. They’ve got a collection of a couple dozen antique flying machines, plus a few automobiles and miscellanea from the early 20th century.

I’m not going to launch into a huge writeup; instead, I’ll just point you at my Old Rhinebeck photo set, of which the following are just a small subset.

The one thing I will mention is the 10-minute ride we took in a 1929 biplane, which was pretty superlative. I brought my GPS and recorded our flight path, which you can see here (sadly sans altitude data). We went 10.5 miles, taking off and landing around 60 mph at 345’ and maxing out at 82 mph and 1225’, which would be 880’ above ground level.

On the descent, I was even able to fire off a quick status update to Twitter and Facebook: aloft aboard an 80 year old biplane. HALP!

All in all, it was an excellent trip, providing a dash of adventure, contact with friends, plenty of sunshine, and lots of awesome photo opportunities.