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To: smokingfrog

Why are they still flying these old treasures? They should be preserved in museums not used to raise money and give people little thrill rides. It’s like pushing an old racehorse out on the fairgrounds to give pony rides. It’s demeaning.


17 posted on 06/13/2011 6:23:05 PM PDT by WestSylvanian
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To: WestSylvanian

Cole Palen—who created the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome—said it’s not an airplane if it doesn’t fly.

With that mentality, he restored what is now the second oldest flying airplane in the world: Bleriot XI from 1909. I saw it fly last year.


41 posted on 06/13/2011 7:56:21 PM PDT by OA5599
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To: WestSylvanian
I don't think so. It's one thing to see it in a museum and entirely different to see it flying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5HfUCuUtfU

44 posted on 06/13/2011 8:28:03 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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