Masons Fly O Plane

[@andygoulding7063]

Great to see it up and running, I worked with Jim and the masons clan between 92-94

[@JensWare]

Wow, looks like fun. I'm not sure I could take so much spinning around.

[@cosmikron]

Thanks for this wonderful video! What memories - some of these pilots were really good in your vid.

[@davidrenwickjunior]

This is Awesome! It's basically a more traditional traveling version of the Red Arrows ride now at Blackpool Pleasure Beach which I've been on. I would definitely go on this. One thing I like about it too is you are in control of how much you spin or not by using the wings. Only a handful of rides let you do that such as Cups n' Saucers where you hold a disc in the middle of the cup to make it spin. The rock-o-plane big wheel (American egg) which has a break bar to either lock the car so it goes upside down then release it to spin. & Skid where you press a pedal to slow down your car then release it to accelerate forward. I love traditional rides like this like roll-o-plane (dive bomber) and especially the Octopus which unfortunately we never see now at modern funfairs, or the Monster which was a cross between the Octopus and Twister. Twister is about the only one you still see! In my personal opinion, as much as I love modern extreme thrill rides, some are just not as fun as these traditional ones. Put this next to a modern ride like Planet Rock and I'll choose this first (then maybe hop on the other lol, I'm 35 but a big kid at heart). Anyway, I only meant to leave a short comment but got carried away now it's a theses lol. Thanks for sharing this video. 😉

[@robwarner9371]

Pleased to see someone saved this video as my old vintage fair website is no more. Is the Fly-o-Plane due to travel this year? I had a few rides on the day I made this video, but could only get a couple of flips in before I slid to the side and spent the rest of the ride hanging more or less upside down.

[@JonLeaky]

Masons sold up there yard and moved to Cornwall to open up a permanent tourist attraction. The fly o plane was up for sale but no one was interested so was chopped up, some parts and art work sold and the rest scrapped

[@darranwaugh2165]

Fantastic

[@Leemeech-jnr]

Do you have any more videos of the fly a plane?

[@amyjojinkerson-b6o]

it would be nice to see the controls of this

[@courtneyhoyle4320]

Ohhh the throw up would have been real after getting off that ohh so much spinning so fast at that

[@nolantom63]

Only place where to find a Fly O Plane carnival ride is Lake Winnie at Rossvile GA USA .

[@bidenisacommunistpuppet.3831]

It's for sale.

[@tavogarcia9026]

Me encanta este juego.aca en mexico.se le conoce.como.aviones. Moscos.

[@gavinkerslake]

also known as the vomit comet

[@MsJinkerson]

how does this thing work

[@drphil9787]

MsJinkerson it doesn't

[@toyoracer33]

There's a yoke inside similar to the control yoke of a light aircraft. Turning the yolk causes the wing on one side to dip up, while the opposite side dips down. This puts the plane into a spin around the nose, which is fixed in place and is what connects each plane to the center of the ride via a lifting arm. I'm not sure if they are any left now. The one at lake Winnipesaukee in rossville Georgia ejected a couple of kids in 2016 or 2017, and according to another comment here it was up for sale a year ago. There was another one at a park in Oklahoma but it's not currently listed as an operable ride, and a while back the owner posted something about it being restored but apparently it never was. There's one more in Montana but it's not in an operable state.

[@daveyork1196]

I soooooooo wanna go of this :)

[@MsJinkerson]

nice to see a gas engine on this