First ride in a tail dragger - Ford Tri-Motor (1 Viewer)

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Thorlifter

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So much fun. $77 for about a 15 minute ride but 1000000% worth it to me and what a beautiful aircraft. What a great memory!
 

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Ok, just took a closer look at the picture. Says Port Clinton on the nose of the aircraft. Looks like its just west of Cleveland. I was hoping it would be somewhere within driving distance of so cal as 77.00 bucks for a ride in a Ford tri motor sounds like a great deal and alot of fun but that is a little far.
Sounds like a nice place though. Any town that bills itself as" the Walleye capital of the world "can't be all bad.:)
 
Michael, this is EAA's tri-motor

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It was in Idaho Falls for 3 days and is now headed to Casper, WY
Very cool thanks. Unfortunately none of the places on Its itinerary are even within 2 days drive of me. Hopefully sometime in the near future they'll come to so cal or someplace not to far.
 
Awesome, Roland!
That's the 5-AT, a little nicer than the 4-AT I rode in.

I'm glad you took the opportunity to get a ride in her. And was I not kidding when I said the ride in one of those Fords is the smoothest you'll ever experience?
 
I'm glad you took the opportunity to get a ride in her. And was I not kidding when I said the ride in one of those Fords is the smoothest you'll ever experience?

No question. I was really quite shocked over how smooth the flight was, even when each engine was started it was smoother than I imagined. This time of year it's quite windy in Idaho and we have been having storms lately so the plane was blown around a bit. But it was so much fun! Can't wait until my next one!!!!
 
A Trimotor made the tour here in Arizona a couple of months ago and apparently had lines of passengers based on what I saw.

Sidebar: The senior surviving tailhook ace is RADM Whitey Feightner who learned to fly in the Detroit area before the war. His first solo (unofficially!) was ferrying a Trimotor to the home drome because the regular pilot was unavailable. His instructor had such confidence in him that he said "Good luck, kid." Whitey of course went on to become a Blue Angel and test pilot. Just a wonderful guy. BTW: I think there are 10-12 USN aces (plus one USMC) among the 30 or fewer remaining.
 

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