Not CL, Samuel Gets A Ride In A 1929 Waco Biplane.

[mike londke]

While on vacation in the Smokies we took a ride. 

[RC Storick]

Super cool!

[FLOYD CARTER]

Open cockpit bipes are great fun!  This picture shows me taxiing out.  1938 Focke-Wulf 44J "Steiglitz".  This plane would be fully acrobatic if it had more than 150 HP.  But I still did a lot of acro in it, and logged about 200 hrs.

Floyd.

[George Albo]

Way cool. Your boy will never forget this moment ever!

[john e. holliday]

That is great.  Just think in time he could be the pilot.

[Frank Imbriaco]

A great video and your(and your son's) memories will last a lifetime.  The reason for my curiosity about the experience ?

In 1929, a 19 year old Navy reserve student  pilot from Elizabeth, NJ took flying lessons out of what is now Newark, NJ International in a 1928 Waco 10.
Unfortunately, he and his instructor( a WW 1 flying ace ) were killed when the aircraft lost power and crashed into swamp land near the airstrip. Theory is that the fuel was contaminated or that the war surplus Lycoming engine was to blame.

That  student was my uncle, Joe, and until recently , the family never knew much about the circumstances other than what was passed  verbally down through the decades.

My cousin, Robert, did a tremendous amount of research around 2009 about our late uncle, the aircraft, history of the Waco Aircraft Co. ,etc. and the circumstances. It is all on the web.