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CONTACT… to That End We Have Many Projects in the Works Number 45, Spring 2012 CONTACT… To that end we have many projects in the works. We are working to improve Old Rhinebeck with modern Thank you for continuing to support Cole Palen’s bathrooms and a new gift shop, and a fundraising Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome. I recently watched a dinner is planned for June 2. Please call Carol in video of a show at Old Rhinebeck from the very early the office for more information. 1990s. What I was most impressed about was Cole Thank you, Palen. I met him a few times when I was a youngster, Michael DiGiacomio but I don’t remember air shows vividly. I met Cole for the first time late one evening on the runway Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum President while “the adults” were in the gift shop having a “Model Master’s” airplane club meeting. Cole was flying a rubber-band model and I was tossing around a hand launched glider. He gave me some friendly advice but didn’t say too much. As I was watching the video, what impressed me most was Cole’s flying. He climbed into the Sopwith Camel and his flying was spectacular. A very tricky aircraft to fly but he was truly a pro. It was obvious he still had a passion for aviation and even though he ate, drank and lived aviation his whole life, he was still totally enamored by what he did. Also he wouldn’t trust the aircraft to anyone else until he personally worked the bugs out. The passing of Pete O’Brien and Earl Hall reminds us that unfortunately many of the people who helped make Old Rhinebeck the world-renowned aviation Mecca it is are no longer with us. We continue to pursue their goal of Above: Pete O’Brien and Cole Palen beside Cole’s KR-31 in the passing on the trials and tribulations of early early 1990s (photo courtesy of the O’Brien family). Below: The essence of the Aerodrome captured in a photo by Earl Hall, aviation. featuring the Davis, Ford “T” Speedster and high-wheeled bike. INSIDE… Membership Drive & Winter Activity…2 Headed West; Earl Hall………………...3 Passing of an Era; Pete O’Brien………. 4 Recent Events…………………………... 5 Special Thanks....………………………. 6 Wish list/For Sale……………………….7 Spring fundraising event………… Insert -1- Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum MEMBERSHIP DRIVE Your membership support is vital to our museum! Board of Trustees For only $50, an individual membership entitles you to a 1-year pass to the Michael DiGiacomio, President museums and airshows, Rotary Ramblings newsletter and a 10% discount at the Joel Weisbrod, Treasurer Aerodrome gift shop. Please spread the word about the Aerodrome and consider Don Fleming giving a gift of membership to someone you know. Larry Klein Jim Record Family memberships and Lifetime memberships are also available. H. Knick Staley Please Consider Becoming a Member Today! Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Airshows Board of Trustees Winter activity… Hugh Schoelzel, President Don Fleming, VP of Promotion We’ve had a fairly mild Neill Herman, VP of Operations Jim Kick, Treasurer winter in Rhinebeck this Tom Daly year, but we did get a few Larry Klein dustings of snow Paul Heimbach throughout the season. A little bit of snow didn’t keep us from making Rotary Ramblings Is published quarterly by the progress moving some of Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum as a the items that had been in benefit of Museum membership storage to safer locations ©2012. on the premises as part of All rights reserved. our collections cataloging Permission is granted for aviation process. enthusiasts to freely copy and redistribute portions of this newsletter. We were lucky to have use of President Mike’s Rhinebeck Aerodrome personal equipment for Museum such occasions! Here are P.O. Box 229 / 9 Norton Rd some of the items that Rhinebeck, NY 12572 were moved into safer (845) 752-3200 storage thanks to Mike, Fax (845) 758-6481 Patrick Walker and Kurt http://www.oldrhinebeck.org Muller. Included among the items were three Editors: Kinners, two unidentified Page 2 JoAnn DiGiacomio V-8s and two partial Geoff Giordano Menascos. These engines Carol Harklerode are in rough shape, but MESTom PolapinkSAGE each is still a piece of aviation history that we Contributors: treasure. Photos: Bill Gordon, Earl Hall, Dave Lockhart, Tom Polapink We are continuing to make progress in our Articles: Warren Batson, Don efforts to organize and Bodeen, Mike DiGiacomio, Don Fleming, Jim Hare, Tom Polapink catalog the collection. -2- Headed West We were saddened to hear of the passing of Earl Hall, a It was always a pleasure to have Earl and Shirley, and longtime friend of Cole and Rita Palen and the Old sometimes his “big” brother Hoss visit Old Rhinebeck. Rhinebeck Aerodrome. Earl and his wife Shirley began Earl always brought along 8 x10 color prints from his visiting the Aerodrome back in the mid-70’s, and were previous visit. As much as he enjoyed photographing regular guests for over twenty years. They would make Cole’s aircraft, he was even more pleased to share his three or four long-weekend trips from Tonawanda, N.Y., photos of the people who were involved with the to the Aerodrome each airshow season. Earl served with airshows. He generously handed out these prints to the United States Navy during the Korean War. He was many of the airshow participants. They remain as then a manager for the W.T. Grant Department Store wonderful memories for many of us. He also would put until he began a 28-year career with the Tonawanda together a slide presentation for the end-of-season Police Department. He retired as captain in 1990. Spandau Award Dinner, and always had a few surprise shots that were humorously embarrassing. During one In his spare time, Earl had a professional photography extended summer visit, Earl received flight training in business, aptly named the Hall of Photography. He Cole’s Curtiss Fledgling from Pam Barker, and went on photographed most everything, but vintage aircraft were to solo that big old bird. He also spent quite a bit of time his favorite subjects. He obtained his private pilot in the rear cockpit for air-to-air photo work. Earl was license, and became involved with the Friends of the certainly one of the Aerodrome’s official photographers Canadian Warplane Heritage in the early ‘80s. This for many years. group began the restoration of the CWH Westland Lysander. The CWH completed the Lysander Earl lived his life large in some ways. He would arrive restoration in 2009, and it now flies regularly for the in his big Lincoln Town Car or his motorhome, and museum. He also had the opportunity to work on and fly usually stayed at George Yantz’s home, just east of the their Fleet. He and Harold Schultz made at least one airfield. You could bet there would be big barbeque and cross-country flight in the Fleet to Old Rhinebeck. Earl gathering of the Aerodrome crew after the airshow. was also a familiar figure at the Geneseo airshows for many years. He was also involved with the formation of Earl is survived by his wife, Shirley, four sons, one the Niagara Aerospace Museum and cataloged a daughter, their spouses, and three grandchildren. He substantial amount of early Bell Aerospace footage. will be missed and remembered with a smile. Jim Hare Earl Hall and Pete O’Brien -3- The Passing of an Era A local aviation era is closed with the death of James was forever grateful, and thus blossomed a lifelong Peter “Pete” O’Brien, owner and operator with his wife, friendship. A lot of people thought Cole would crash Rose of the Stormville Airport. Stormville, known in one of his “junkers,” but Pete emphatically decreed that recent years for its huge summer flea markets, was in the Cole would never die in an airplane. And he didn’t. late 1950s and 1960s the busiest general aviation airport east of the Mississippi. It was there that Cole Palen got Stormville was different from other airports. No fences his start in the sense that Pete encouraged Cole to keep there. People had free access to come and watch the his flyable or near flyable antiques at Stormville as the planes take off and land “up close and personal” as they county airport was less than hospitable to the idea. It say. There was always friendly conversation, a casual was at Stormville that Cole first flew the Bleriot (and I atmosphere, no “security” and no one had to shoo you believe also the SPAD), much to Pete’s great delight. away from anything, not even the big old house which That day is etched in my memory. Cole was “getting the served as flight school, snack bar and the O’Brien home. feel” of the Bleriot by taxiing at various speeds, at times And if you got the notion, you could even go for an coming close to lift off. Pete, myself and an IBM airplane ride. Rose often let us young pilots who engineer were the only ones watching and the engineer worked there fly some of the rides because she knew was explaining to Pete that he had examined the Bleriot, how much we appreciated the free flying time. In taken measurements, and had determined that the plane addition many of us took some of our pay out in flying could not possibly fly. Pete listened and said nothing, time. The aircraft owners, the instructors, and all who his eyes fixed on the plane. Just then the Bleriot became worked there were treated as family.
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