This 1974 color documentary about the WWI Jubilee at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome is presented by Eastman Kodak Co. Real World War I planes are pulled out of a building at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome for a WWI weekend flying show and WWI radio-controlled aircraft jamboree in front of a large crowd. A radio-controlled model Fokker Triplane flies by the camera. A modeler carries his Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 (:25-1:39). Cole Palen, Rhinebeck’s owner, is interviewed. A Mid-Hudson Radio Control Society member is interviewed. Members prepare their planes. The jackets of radio control groups are shown (1:40-2:58). An X-Acto knife blade is drawn through balsa wood up-close. A hand places the tip of a glue bottle at wing joints (3:00-3:25). A modeler works in a garage full of shelves with parts. He explains the process of building a model airplane. He holds a servomechanism up to the camera, and shows how to use a transmitter to control the airplane. The wing and throttle respond as he moves the stick and lever on the transmitter (3:26-5:14). A man flies his WWI S.E.5 biplane and safely lands it (5:45-6:25). A stop watch begins the three-minute time the modeler has to get his German Rumpler Taube plane in the air. The propeller won’t start by hand so he uses an electric starter (6:26-7:09). Another puts his Albatross D-V “Red Baron” through the required maneuvers, which scored on a sheet (7:10-7:30). Different planes go through maneuvers (7:40-8:13). A close-up of a modeler using the transmitter to guide his plane is shown (8:16-8:30). A German WWI biplane takes off (8:35). A British S.E.5.A has a bomb attached to the bottom to drop on a target (8:50-9:05). Another challenge is to break balloons attached to a pole. The Taube gets tangled in it and crashes (9:07-9:37). The S.E.5.A lands (9:38). A modeler climbs a tree to retrieve a plane. The damage is examined (9:50-10:38). A dogfight ends with a crash (10:44-11:18). A hat has tiny models of WWI planes (11:26). A man holds a damaged plane and another crashes (11:47-11:52). Contestants gather around a campfire. A woman in 1970s clothing plays a guitar and sings (11:53-14:30). The next morning the full-size airplane are prepared for the airshow. Propellers are hand-spun. Views are shown of and from real WWI airplanes shown earlier in model airplane size (14:43-16:48). A man applies makeup as part of a Vaudeville act performed on the ground in vintage cars and motorcycles and in the air in a dogfight (16:53-20:30). A radio-controlled doghouse novelty aircraft includes Snoopy riding it (20:33-21:00). A photography aircraft has a Kodak Instamatic spring-wound camera in it. The modeler shows how it is activated on the transmitter (21:02-21:50). A Taylor Cub has a Super 8 Kodak movie camera attached (21:52-22:38). Planes are judged for true-to-life miniature authenticity and construction using notebooks with photographs taken by the modeler while building the plane. Close-ups of details are shown (22:45-25:25). Images of the life-size planes and the radio-controlled model planes are intermixed (25:27-26:45).

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