Comments on: Six-year-old's first plane ride in open cockpit Piper Cub

By: Ray Perkins

Ray Perkins — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:35:00 +0000

Used to own one of these. And the door has been removed, not just opened. I’ve flown with the door off, and it was a real rush.This was mine: http://i.imgur.com/C2otc.jpg

By: jtegnell

jtegnell — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:37:00 +0000

Too bad we have that irritating music drowning out the child’s reactions.

By: ohio

ohio — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:34:00 +0000

I just turned forty six and this video took me back forty years to my father taking me up in his J-3 with both doors wide open. Thank you.

By: miasm

miasm — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:24:00 +0000

I’m sure I’m not being rude, but it’s just your attitude,
It’s tearing me apart, It’s ruining everything

I swore, I swore I would be true, and honey, so did you.
So why were you holding her hand? Is that the way we stand?
Were you lying all the time? Was it just a game to you?
But I’m in so deep. You know I’m such a fool for you.

You got me wrapped around your finger, ah, ha, ha.
Do you have to let it linger? Do you have to, do you have to,
Do you have to let it linger?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:43:00 +0000

Yes. Yes, you are a troll.

By: igpajo

igpajo — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:43:00 +0000

Now that was a wonderful thing!

By: dejoh

dejoh — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:19:00 +0000

Great smile. She should remember it for a lifetime.

By: Mark Dow

Mark Dow — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:32:00 +0000

I always think I’d like to be sitting next to HD Thoreau on his first flight.

By: nettdata

nettdata — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:24:00 +0000

It’s a 46 Champ. Even says so in the video comments by the submitter.

By: nettdata

nettdata — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:24:00 +0000

Super Cubs have enclosed heads.

By: Loafer

Loafer — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:59:00 +0000

I feel like that every time I get on a plane and I’m 37 :)

By: chaopoiesis

chaopoiesis — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:28:00 +0000

The bad things never end, the good things make it worthwhile: if you can always think of both, at the same time, without getting stuck on one or the other, you’ll be a better person.

By: hugh crawford

hugh crawford — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:23:00 +0000

It sure looks like a Citabria to me. A neighbor used to take me up all the time with the door off to go check up on what was happening in the middle of corn fields and the like. At least that’s what we told my mom. Great camera planes, and I can remember flying low enough to smell the different crops.

By: Carl Pietrantonio

Carl Pietrantonio — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:51:00 +0000

You guys made me cry with this one. Good work!

By: knoxblox

knoxblox — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:45:00 +0000

Such a joy sometimes to realize how lucky we are to be born in this day and age…the miracle of sustained flight, advanced medicine (fighting asthma, acid reflux, poor vision, amputations/burns/scarring, etc.), deep sea/space exploration, and most of all, the internet.

Seriously wish they could get the time travel thing solved so I could go back and give Ovid the opportunity to experience what flight was really like.

By: Doc_S

Doc_S — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:57:00 +0000

So, no one on the planet can have a good time until all injustice, inequity, and hardship are eliminated? You must be a real hit at parties.

By: Doc_S

Doc_S — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:54:00 +0000

Definitely the Aeronca. The Cub has exposed cylinder heads through the cowling. Both are great little planes, though, and very similar otherwise.

By: NelC

NelC — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:53:00 +0000

We can’t think of the whatever-percent all the time, still less during every happy moment. That way lies depression and madness. Believe me, I know. Just be happy for a little girl for a moment. Then get back to your charity work with a will.

Tldr: Yes, you are trolling.

By: Marya

Marya — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:47:00 +0000

I’m not a troll,
I swear,
I swear I am not a hater and a troll,
But I can’t help but think of all the brave face put on by the children who had to sleep in the car last night, because their mommie was evicted, they had no splendid grampa, and they had no other place to go.

Didn’t anybody, aside from myself, think of the 45%?

By: kartwaffles

kartwaffles — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:35:00 +0000

Although that plane looked yellow like a Cub, I noticed a “Champ” logo on the motor cowling in a few shots. It might be this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeronca_Champion

Either way, that was the coolest plane ride I’ve seen in a long time.

By: legsmalone

legsmalone — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:26:00 +0000

My dad’s friend took me up in a similar plane when I was 6. Pretty much the same experience, but I got to fly us in a circle as it was dual control. Awesome.

By: Doran

Doran — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:24:00 +0000

After a morning spent reading news about crappy people doing crappy things, I needed this. That joyous smile on her face will surely get me through the day.

By: quesarah

quesarah — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:22:00 +0000

That smile at liftoff – holding her arms out the open windows to fly. Lovely, pure joy. Birth of a pilot?

By: Jim Saul

Jim Saul — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:13:00 +0000

Well there’s a complex new recipe of reactions… goosebumps, laughing, and a lump in my throat, all at the same time, just from watching.

Imagine hers.

By: kallikanzaros

kallikanzaros — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:11:00 +0000

Oh jeez… this is going to be my designated Unicorn Chaser from now on

By: Bob LeDrew

Bob LeDrew — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:51:00 +0000

When I turned 30, I was given a ride in a Boeing Stearman as a birthday gift. Still remember it vividly. I feel the way she feels at 1:08 every time I am in a plane and we lift off. Whatever bad things we do, we humans with our big ol’ brains are pretty amazing to be able to figure out how to make ourselves fly, and to give one of our fellow creatures that kind of experience. Marvelous.

By: waetherman

waetherman — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:46:00 +0000

This inspires me to get my pilot license.

By: berrywing

berrywing — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:31:00 +0000

No better description of “Unbridled Joy”. Great video!

By: Jon Sanders

Jon Sanders — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:18:00 +0000

2:21 — HI MOMMY!!!