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September 4, 2005
I found the one picture I took of David with Stanley “The Flying Farmer” Segalla, and scanned it. Mr. Segalla is 80 or 81 92 years old and still stunt flying in his Piper Cub for Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome. He was kind enough to fly out from Connecticut on May 30 so I could scatter David’s ashes over the Aerodrome on his birthday. I couldn’t have done it without Mr. Segalla, because with the weather forecast for thunderstorms, no pilot would commit to flying the Aerodrome’s 1929 biplane on that day. I had no pilot and no plane until Mr. Segalla offered to do it at the 11th hour, after shuffling around his schedule.
David mentioned Mr. Segalla in his write-up of that day, which turned out to be his last visit to the Aerodrome:
http://aviatordave.blogspot.com/2005/09/best-medicine.html
I led Gail around the old tin hangars and rattled off chapter and verse on each old plane and bit of machinery. She found an endless variety of things to photograph, from the old planes to the many cars and motorbikes, old engines, and the beautiful countryside around the museum. A friendly old gentleman in a flightsuit invited us to come into one hangar to examine the partially-completed “Spirit of St. Louis” replica; I noticed his nametag, Stanley Segalla – one of the airshow pilots, famous as the “Flying Farmer”!
I just finished writing letters and printing photos for the people at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, to thank them for making it all happen.
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