A Flight Over the Hudson Valley in a New Standard D-25 Biplane
The black-fuselaged, red-winged 1929 Warren Disbrow New Standard D-25, registered N19157, appeared over the trees as it was elevator-trimmed on to its final approach toward the rolling grass field of Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, momentarily disappearing as it flared behind the hill and ultimately reappearing at the top of it with its conventional undercarriage now firmly ground-based. This was how America had been introduced to flying during the 1920s barnstorming days; it would certainly be the way I would be introduced to it--in an open-cockpit biplane. Paradoxically, the aircraft would do more than aerially transport me: it would "transport" me back...
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