Never Too Old ! (1922)

Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Full titles read: "NEVER TOO OLD ! - Mrs A. Sisson- who is only 103 years "young" makes her 10th fight with Berkshire Aviation Tours pilot."
M/S of Mrs A. Sisson climbing being helped into passengers seat of Avro 504K plane. M/S of biplane taxiing down runway. M/S of Mrs Sisson's being helped out of the plane, by several men. M/S of Mrs Sisson leaning on wing of plane smiling. C/U of Mrs Sisson sitting down and smiling.
FILM ID:268.33
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[@kiwiontheinternet5810]

She was born the same year as Queen Victoria, and lived long enough to fly in a plane, Amazing

[@alm9368]

An impressive film, a 200+ year range. We're watching, in 2022, a woman born in 1819 (the time of Napoleon), taking a plane in 1922.

[@theH0UNDSofD00M]

My mum was born in 1946 and you'd struggle to get her into a normal plane, let alone flying ten times on a tiny thing This lady was very brave... When she was the same age that my mother is now, planes hardly existed!

[@marlonholt40]

Mrs. Sisson was 76 when she took her flight? When was the 1st flight?

[@leslysam9644]

God bless her

[@Huang-Yun]

She has gone to God, what else is there to help 🥴🥴

[@alexanderafanasyev3459]

Wow! What a brave lady!

[@ch33rfulness]

Not much to risk at 103…she was already double the average lifespan of a normal person during that era. Back then if you were reaching 60, you were already very lucky. At over 100 you’d have probably been in the top 0.0x% 😬

[@rosemarie9641]

Courageous lady!👏👏👏👏

[@tadeodewiesent583]

¡Maravilloso! ¡Hermoso!

[@carriebizz]

Oh wow majority of people died decades before back then, 103 is an amazing stretch even by today's standard

[@horsenuts1831]

The average life expectancy in those days was dragged down by infant mortality. If you survived childhood and backbreaking manual labour, you would probably live to a decent age (although 103 is still an outlier, statistically)

[@joehuiras4955]

What a dame

[@gorniklecznaman3414]

Wow, stunning 🙂

[@user-iw4oo9tg9z]

wow

[@JokerDR71]

This is a mystery, some people are already totally broken with 60 and can barely walk and this lady seems quite fit for hear age

[@danschneider9921]

She reminds me of my grandmother, who at age 92 decided that "it hadn't been since about 1945 she shot a gun" and made me take her to the range. She's now 94 and owns two pistols, a little. 22 and a .380. Cue liberal tears here...but I think its pretty cool.

[@kingoftape]

I’m so liberal I piss blue, and I think that’s fan-damn-tastic. If she wants to own two pistols and shoot them like a responsible adult then God Bless her.

[@jimmy12007]

Genial

[@Francis_Maulli]

100 years ago...

[@ahassen1236]

She just looks relieved at the end after throughly getting man-handled 😁

[@hugovomit]

That's just Insane!

[@Elizabeth-jk4yj]

Wow whaat

[@danielgreen3715]

Health and safety would have a Meltdown these days!

[@gerardjagroo]

To fly one of those old airplanes literally took some serious muscle and stamina as this was before the implementation of hydraulics or fly by wire so all of the force required to move the control surfaces had to come from the pilot. This lady must've been made out of steel.

[@dadyjoe9721]

On those times, the people didnt eat the GMO food, so they are having long life age.. Compare to us today, so many cancers dieases case with the high death %

[@DILLE1994]

The average lifespan is much higher today than in 1900 dude

[@akeembobbyslim7001]

What’s her full name

[@stamge3076]

I wonder what age she lived until?

[@phillipnelson9031]

It’s appalling that 100 years later we’re all still driving cars and not aircraft .

[@bazza945]

Given the high percentage of idiots in motor vehicles you should be thankful. ;)

[@stamge3076]

@Barry Munro Amen to that

[@MOOBOOSE]

She was probably senile 😂