90-year-old plane takes flight in Bentonville
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- A Ford Tri-Motor from the Experimental Aircraft Association offers rides Thursday, June 13, 2019, outside Thaden Field House at Bentonville Municipal Airport.
Ford Tri-Motors, built from 1926-1933, were the first all-metal commercial airliners. This aircraft, wth tail number NC8407, first flew August 21, 1929, as a commercial airliner. Over the years the plane changed ownership and was refitted to serve as a crop duster, a firefighting water bomber, and in barnstorming tours, among other roles. The Experimental Aircraft Association now takes the plane on an annual tour, offering rides at stops around the country.
The plane will be at Thaden Field House offering rides from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Short sightseeing flights to are $77 for adults, $52 for children 17 and younger, and $165 for the right front seat. Guests can call the plane's staff directly at 920-379-8348 for more info on flights.
wow ...... it still has the original pilots ...
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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
idk why this made me crack up
Bro, u read my mind 🤣🤣
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I rode in that same plane about 10 years ago. Mercer Airport, Trenton NJ. $55 for 20 minute ride. Loved it.
Worth every penny
$5.00 for the ride, $50.00 for the insurance premium.
lol not so expensive. Definitely gonna try this when got chance. In my country, to ride a helicopter require you to pay for USD 200 / tour / person. Ridiculous price!
Now is severe overpriced
True. I was the propeller
Dad,” smile”
Kid smiles for a half second and is instantly back to face of doomS
The man is like a kid again, and the kid is well, i don't know
@@starsoffyre the kid was like "I don't feel safe in this plane"😅
@@jeanlucc99 yeah hes clearly shitting it lmfaoo
@@jeanlucc99 for good reason!
Hey, I have never liked to fly and I'm 72. I think the young man did great!
No doubting the engineering/piloting skills here but I don't think I'd ever be able to fully relax on a 80 year old plane, lol
I think the same
Flown by 80 year old pilots 😅
@@erfansafaeian8906 I’d trust those pilots with my life any day
Look at it this way - if it's been flying for 80 years it'll probably fly for the next hour too
its 90 year old plane, flown by 70 year old pilots
That kid looks like hes about to die
The truth is different the real aeroplane was invented by an INDIAN SCIENTIST SHIVKAR BAPUJI TALPADE... yes its true which was not told to u all. Shivkar invented it 8 years before Wright brothers and that Indian shivkar's plane was very complecated machine whose engine fuel was mercury (NASA has recently started working on mercury engines and in India its invented 126 years ago). wrights brothers invented there plane in 1903 and shivkar in 1895...and it was fully controlable and powerful and it flew for several minutes.
But sadly he was not rewarded for it as it was the time when INDIA was ruled by British government and Indians were fighting for freedom. British suppressed this invention and arrested shivkar and destroyed many research paper of him and steal his book of aeronautical science.
U CAN SEARCH IT ON GOOGLE OR REARCH ON IT.
and the story continues as there are many inventions which Indians have done but many invaders destroyed its culture literatures and steals many books and then just reinvented it and claims to invente it many inventions were stolen from India and then they parented it.
@Lultrooper I think he's drugged
@@yuvikagupta4331 Unmanned. Doesn’t count.
@@yuvikagupta4331 thank you for telling me the truth wise man.
@@yuvikagupta4331 turn off your wifi
When airplanes had real steering wheels! Like a flying car! Awesome machine!!
I believe Ford always used round steering wheels, not like Austin.
I didn’t catch that until you said something. I’d love to fly that plane. It must be weird.
I read somewhere that the original wheel was the same as a model T car, but this does look smaller than I image a ‘T’ would have
@@supersabrejet That definitely goes from somebody, who haven't even tried any flight simulator, let alone actually trying to fly a plane, lol
That was pretty cool
I took my son up when he was 3 years old. His first plane ride. It was magnificent. 20 years later, we did it again.
This time it was even better.
Did you go with him 20 years later
10/10 parenting, I was lucky enough to get a ride on one when I was 9, still remember it to this day now that I'm in my 30s.
Ford sure made things to last. Look how many Model"A" cars are still around and running.
I haven't seen one in years. lol
I remember when my older brother bought one when he was 15 (not old enough for a DL yet) and fixed it up, drilled holes in the body ouch! to mount directional signals on it, operated with a toggle switch (driver had to remember to turn them off). That was 1950.
You said it Martin! I've got me a '31 A Coupe. Drug it out of a framer's field last year. He said he parked it there sometime in the late 50's. 30 years before I was even born. The ol' original 4 banger wasn't stuck, so I pulled off the old Zenith carb, cleaned it all out, stuck it back on with a new set of plugs and points and what do ya know? Fired right up! The car turns 91 next year ;) and I absolutely love it.
@@matocaster love the story
If only that was the case with their modern vehicles. Biggest hunk of junk I ever owned was a Ford...
@@putridvomit It depends on how you drive and maintain any car these days. My friend has 260 thousand miles on his Ford "150" truck and is still driving well.
That little kid did not want to be there at all 😂
This would have made my childhood
Maybe not, but he was and he did it. Brave.
The last Ford Tri-Motor in scheduled service flew from Sandusky OH to the island airport at Put-In-Bay. I flew in the right seat as a paying passenger (not a licensed pilot) in 1961 or 1962, at age 14 or 15. Don't recall the tail number, but I do remember the noise level, and the low altitude at which we made the lake crossing.
Did the same a few years earlier !
Absolutely a beautiful airplane ! Can't even imagine how many hours of work to see her in such prestin shape and flying Bravo !
"Prestin" and "pristine" are entirely different words.
Don't type beyond your intelligence. It makes the shortcomings publicly viewable.
In a few years time, that young man will boast that he had a seat in something that his peers will never experience. He doesn't yet how fortunate he was.
Now he's more like: "Daddy are you sure this thing can fly? "
He was so scared lol
Poor kid looked absolutely petrified. I think I would too!
I took a flight on a Ford Tri-Motor back in May 1977 during the 50th of Lindeberg's solo to Europe. It was at Farmingdale 's Republic Airport (FRG) , just around the pattern, with alot of noise and vibration. It cost $ 12.00 . I took flying lessons that summer and obtained my PVT. 18 months later.
Dad is geeking out but the kid looks like he’d rather be on the ground
Maybe watched the night before a deadly plane crash compilation
Man I'd love to be on that plane. Such big windows
It ok watching from my couch a 90 yr old plane :)))
Well because you know nothing about safety and planes
@@adamr9570 I'm a simple man. I see plane, I see big windows, imma fly on it
But they are really dangerous winfows
@@starsoffyre bro big square Windows are not safe like 10-15 plane crashed bc of this Windows thats why they use round small Windows now
Reminds me when I took a flight on an old Tupolev 134 in Russia... “get me down quick so I can cross it off the list forever!”
But hopefully not too quick
I used to fly to Malaysia on Aeroflot Ilyushin IL62M. Fabulous old aircraft except for the smell of the aviation fuel wafting about in the toilets. They have a beauty about them similar to the Vicker VC10 and the engines make a really curious sound.
@@PlaneNuts2024 Yes I miss seeing those old Russian aircraft. The TU134 always fascinated me, Aviogenex flew them for charter flights into Manchester when I worked there. A real versatile workhorse, able to land on rough grass, with a nose cone convertible to glass for military use when it also served as a light bomber. Massively overpowered and fast for a commercial jet and of course a real gas-guzzler. I loved the high pitched “trill” from the engines too.
What a beautiful plane, they would have to surgically remove the smile from my face
I flew in that very same Tri Motor in Osh Kosh, WI. a few years back. I had a current private pilot certificate at the time. The pilot in command allowed me to take the controls for about 5 minutes. Very heavy controls and somewhat slow to react. Also VERY loud. An experience that will never be forgotten.
I did the same thing, but in Valdosta, Georgia. The pilot let me take the controls for a few minutes, too. I thought the controls were very mismatched, with the plane being sluggish in roll and hypersensitive in pitch. And the loudest flight I have ever been on, including Marine Corps helicopters! One of the few flights I have been glad to end, just from the noise. That big old radial engine and prop just outside the cockpit window!
Similar experience in Pontiac Michigan maybe twelve years ago, Cody Welch let me have the controls for a few minutes
Thanks for sharing ^_^
Yeah me too, I told the old farts I had a few sim hours on a laptop so they said "fuggit" and let me barrellrolllooopdeeloop that mf.
Or not.
@@gavinvalentino6002 😂😂😂😂😂😂
The sum of the ages of the two pilots greater than the age of the aircraft. So all in good order. And that endless smile of the passengers. I envy this flight. 🛩✈🛫❤
Dad : Did you enjoy your flight ?
Son : Yes
Dad : What did it cost ?
Son : My ears
THIS IS AMAZING! I live in Bentonville and I want to become a pilot when I’m older! This is a super pretty plane!!!
Awesome mate! I’m 26 and I would love to get into flying
But guys who fly this sort of plane are always old fellows with gray hair.
I’ve flown in that airplane. Great old bird!
You must have flown it in FS2004
The engine sound at 1:05 makes me think of the movie Airplane when they showed the 707 flying.
Yeah, they deliberately gave piston engine sound for jet plane
Lol I remember that.lol 😆
Sound of table fan
Took my late father for a ride on that aircraft at Cincinnati KLUK back in 2011 - what a great experience.
oh that kid... "what the heck I am flying on?"
What a group of lucky people on this plane to be able to participate in this flight is indescribable!
Pretty sure this thing doesn't have auto pilot.
Pilot's name is, Otto.
PASSENGERS PRETTY CALM FOR FLYING IN A 90 YEAR OLD PLANE. 😳
I flew perhaps on that plane in Urbana Illinois in 1962-3 it was a blast!
I had the opportunity to fly in a Tri-motor during a LAS convention about 20 years ago. The passenger speaking with his kid reminded me that Evergreen Airlines sponsored the trip. Don't know if they owned that A/C but it was fun and noisy.
I paid for myself and my dad to have a flight on this same aircraft back in 4/2015. Bakersfield, CA. Takes you back to a different time for sure.
Poor kid is terrified 😂😂😂😂
The kid seating in the front row is scared
Saw one of these flying out of Reno Stead airport and checked it out. $75 later I was climbing in, what a plane! In fact that one had a reno history as it had been restored by Bill Harrah and was in his collection, sold when he passed away. i heard later the aircraft was damaged, hopefully it can be restored and flown again, it was quite a flight for a short flight. A friend later told me he saw it flying around his place near Santa Rosa, i told him to take a flight and he was as delighted with his as I was with mine.
If you hear of this plane coming around, take a flight, it was a different era, one that you can experience! I couldn't justify the price of the B-17 flight, but the tri motor was totally worth it.
The kid is literally scared haha
I rode in a Tri Motor at the Palm Springs CA air museum several years ago. It belonged to another museum and you'll have to forgive me that I don't remember which (not EAA), but what amused me was the whole flight was flown at 70 knots from liftoff to touchdown.
nice I wish I could fly in one of those
And then all the sudden you hear
Missile missile. missile missile
@@ggggvfgft4650 acidentally flys over some airbase and gets a SAM on them
The pilots are the same age as the airplane. 😅😂🤣🤣😅 They have the experience and the skills. Well done.
I had an ex Qantas 707/747 captain in his mid eighties instruct me. He was far more skilled and professional than the younger instructors
You must have big iron balls to decide to fly on an old plane like that. I wouldn't... Life is precious...
Calm and experienced pilots. Nice!
At 90 is best for your heart to stay calm :))
Actually they died long ago but they can still fly!
As I recall there used to be an airline ferry in the Great Lakes area flying between the U.S. and Canada for a long time with a perfect safety record.
Yes, Island Airlines near Port Clinton, Oh. I flew on one as a kid in the 60s. Great fun!
Stout Airlines back in the 30s in West Michigan.. The Tri-motor I was on also had a Stout label on it. I was on the one that said "Port Clinton" on the nose. I got some good footage on my cell phone from entering the base leg to final to rolling out to the hangar and engine stop. FANTASTIC ride! I love slow flight like that.
This is probably smoother than the last Ryanair flight I had
The American Junkers JU52 ;-)
That kid probably now's an aviation enthusiast, but he didn't look too impressed there!
He also may have developed a fear of flying and is no longer stepping on planes
beautiful landing for a 90 year old plane. well done to the pilot.
POS
Yes, apparently you are ?@@mikrof467
Boy looks like "What a f** i am doing here")))
I wouldn’t be concerned. That’s 100 years of experience at the controls.
Interesting as this is, it's a shame that the FAA bowed to pressure with early aircraft companies and denied Bellanca's Aircruiser a passenger certificate. Simply because it was more efficient and could carry more passengers with one engine. The Aircruiser could carry 12-15 passengers with one engine, and in fact, could carry its own empty weight in cargo! The first aircraft to attain that feat. The FAA "decided" passenger aircraft were required to have multiple engines, for "safety" and Bellanca's airplanes were overlooked by industry.
: Lindbergh wanted to do his Atlantic crossing in a Bellanca-but they wouldn't let him pilot one.
@@stranraerwal, yeah, Chamberlain screwed the pooch for G.M. on that one. The events of that week are really worthy of its own movie, aside from Lindbergh's story.
i tought it was a bus from the inside
Great video editing ! So where was the take-off ?
KVBT Bentonville!
Wow, I wish I could fly in one of those historic airplanes 😊
I GOT TO FLY IN ONE 30 YRS AGO IT HAD THE WICKER SEATS AND CURTAINS
1:44 the old pro knows *exactly* how many times to re-wind the rubber band for the perfect rpm.
That ole girl looks like an old school bus that they put wings and engine’s on. The early days of aviation.
What sub variant is it of the Ford Trimotor - My Guess Ford 5-AT-D ?
Yep it’s a 5-AT-D from 1928, I flew on this airplane when it was at this airport
that’s beyond cool….would love that experience!
If you ask the pilots how hard is it to fly they'll say It's like driving a car....
That kids face @ 1:16 says it all "Next time Dad, if it ain't a Boeing, I ain't going"
As a kid I had the rare opportunity to ride in one of these ... the pilots showed up at the airport and needed at ride to their hotel. Having just received my drivers license, I jumped on the opportunity and exchanged a ride for a ride! I recalled flying over our house and seeing my parents (who were none the wiser) standing in the driveway!!! Great memory .. oily little beast, but a relic of the past.
Its as old as the people flying it what pieces of history.
Ah yes, the ‘ol Ford Trimotor
One of the planes obsoleted by the DC3
I had an opportunity to ride in one just like it ( at that time it was reported that there were three still flying in the mid-eighties) the one that was touring around Petersburg Virginia was painted red and silver. By the time we had gotten the information and found out the days and times it would be available for rides it was mid-afternoon and I had never flown before ( unless being thrown over my bike handlebars once counts 😉) and so the owner/ pilot started talking about how much insurance he had on the plane and if on or two of the to three engine went out that it could still fly and then he started talking about that was the last ride of the day and then unbeknown to me my wife had gotten the money from somewhere and offered it to me and the fact that the pilot mentioned all those things about the insurance, and it's ability to still fly on one engine and the way he emphasized the " LAST RIDE" of the day kinda spooked me because I'm reasoned that a twenty minute plane ride was not worth losing my wife and two young children for. So I decided to forgo that old tri-ford motor airplane ride because my family was far more worth being with and there for than to risk my life in a twenty minute plane ride. I have always loved aviation but at the same time respect it because each time you go up in flight you take the chance of an accident.
Years later I did fly on a mission trip to Brazil where we flew huge several airliners to and from that mission trip. I was well aware of the risk I took but I took that trip after much prayer and other preparations and if it cost me my life to accomplish that missionary work then I figured what better cause could I give my life for than to bless others in another place in the world by helping to build two churches during our two week excursion there. But thank we had a safe trip to and from and managed to arrive safely home about three weeks before the terrorist planes struck the twin towers and the Pentagon and the one that was thwarted now famous flight 93. And that mission trip is now a treasured memory that occurred over twenty years ago now. Even to this day I'm still fascinated by aviation but I also still respect it.
Pilots are also 90 year old Grandpas 👏😅
kid looks like he's having the time of his life
Great. That is one lucky kid. I would have been in heaven. I think kids the last twenty or so years need instant reaction and instant "anything" much of the time and he probably is comparing it to other smaller planes that fly fast. That plane probably didn't go over 120 miles an hour. If he was "prepped" before hand he would have had the whole package then maybe more smiles. I always explained, to my kids, why we are doing things. Not inundate them, but a reason why this or that, then things become more enjoyable for the youngsters.
God bless!
Wonderful plane!! I’ve ridden in the same one years ago. Like a giant Supercub. It hardly seems like you should be able to take off at that speed!
Lovely...what a way to spend a day..😁🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍
Зумер на переднем сиденье не особо впечатленён )
Fiquei com há impreção que o garoto não estava se sentindo muito confortável voando nesse muito velho avião. 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
Either!!!
Amazing 👏👏👏
Remember that scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom when the Ford Tri Motor ran out if fuel and crashed into the side of the mountain? That was cool.
Мда. Если такая машина летает до сих пор, то низкий поклон и уважение техникам и пилотам. Тут нет надежды на компьютер, только навыки пилотов и умение. Браво!
You bet! 🙂👍🙋🏻♂️
Amazing...nice plane...
went up in that plane when i was like 8 for probably 20 minutes, it was the first plane i ever flew in fast forward a lot of years and now i’ve flown planes myself, probably the coolest plane i’ve flown in
One fan fly off that's the end very risky i think the kid is worried about the fan he's keeping on looking
Just think aviation only goes back around 120 years so this is really incredible to see her fly.
Honestly is crazy to think that everything we have has only been around a short time. The guys flying were born in the 50s probably aviation would had only been around barely 50 years. All the cell phones, computers are still pretty new to humans. We think we live in such a modern time but its honestly just the beginning 100 years from now people will say the same thing. Wish we could live longer and see what future will be like
I really don't understand how those guys could be so happy flying that old thing that could disintegrate any second. That's why the kid is so scared... I would be too....
They are happy because they are plane enthusiasts or like old stuff
These planes arent something that would just disintegrate. Theres no accidents where these planes have "disintegrated in seconds". Other aircraft, yes, but these have only crashed from weather/engine failures.
Im pretty sure these aircraft are a little more reliable than you make them sound lol
The planes are solid and safe, my flight was amazing, it was like the first time I rode a motorcycle. I loved it.
captain to his co-pilot "my parents were dating when this aircraft was a decade old"
I have flown in De Havilland Dragon Rapides and Tiger Moths at the Imperial War museum in what was RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire (UK) and the experience is nerve wracking to start with then is a fabulous experience, especially in the De Havilland Tiger Moth. Flying in a Ford Tri-Motor will be the icing on the cake. The poor lad looked very nervous. Wonderful old aircraft it seems strange to see the Ford logo on what looks like a steering wheel. Brilliant thank you for showing this video.
First flew when i was 14 at duxford in likely the same moth as you. Now i fly a travel air biplane thats 92 years old and just passed my atpl exams
There`s a James Cagney movie from 1933 called Lady Killer where he gets on one of these. Love the aluminum siding on the fuselage. Great video!
A lot of Douglas DC-3s are 90 years old and still in regular passenger and freight service.
I tried 3 times to take a ride in a tri motor in Kalamazoo Mi. And then was told that insurance had become so expensive that rides were cancelled. This was probably 10 or 15 years ago when I drove long haul and would layover there hoping for better weather and even planning delivery trips just to go through hoping for the chance. Given the opportunity today I would take it in a heartbeat.
That kid does not want to be there 😂
I would not..
It must have had some modifcations, for example, no way 90 year old technology would be compatible with communcation systems to ground control today.
You dudes are NUTS!! These shenanigans NEVER happen in the YT Guitar Community!
That small buddy should act a movie... He made my day
The son looks like “Dad! Why would you bring me o this rickety thing?” Lol! The son will probably kiss the ground when he deplanes.
One day, he would give anything to go back and do it one more time.
That kid doesn’t even appreciate anything in life and I realize that used to be me intill I went through growing up realize my mom did everything she could for me I wish I could have smiled in most of my pictures I thank God for making me humble and using the life I have now to smile in my pictures and there genuine ones now :) 🙏🏻✝️
Poor kid was not having any of that. Heck, even the men who were smiling seemed forced. Weird all around. Hey, was that a loose body panel? 🙃
The plane's steering wheel looks like a 1960's car steering wheel
Those windows! Those radials! 💛
poor kid probably got forced to be there. respectfully i wouldnt want to sit in a rickety old plane that could fall apart if i sneezed too loudly. on top of that, 2 pilots who look old enough to drop dead after a fart
1:16 kid's face like: what's funny dad? Can't believe you made me get on this old plane, so irresponsible, we may die now.
Whoa this plane looks wild. The exposed engine looks really cool and unique. Kind of reminds me of those Harley’s with no fairings.
i wouldn't take my kid to fly an old plane, go yourself if you want dont force other people too specially a kid who has all life ahead
You couldn’t pay me to fly in one of these old bastards. It would be fun, an experience, but... no.
Those people ARE CRAZY. The only one being concerned is that kid there 0:38.
Before airplane crash: "Hey i'm gonna fly with a 90-year-old plane"
After airplane crash: "Hey Saint Peter, i flied with a 90-year-old plane"