Video: Beaver Over The Bay (More 'This Is Why We Fly') #MustSee
Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 01:02PM
I hopped on over to vimeo.com today to search for something different in the way of a great avgeek video to share... the video above is the one I decided was just what I was looking for. It's really a promo of sorts for Seaplane Adventures in San Francisco, but I was pleased with how this almost four minute video captured the beauty and majesty of flying. What I didn't realize at first is that it's just the short version of the real video which is almost 18 minutes long.
So I watched the 18 minute video (posted below) and I must say that it might be the best video I have ever seen at capturing the depth of why I love to fly. If you can afford the 18 minutes out of your day, you MUST watch the long version below. You might not get tears in your eyes like I did, but I wish you would... it would tell me a lot about you.
Screenshot of the Seaplane Adventures Beaver over the Golden Gate Bridge
I admit the long version of this video might be more powerful to me since it's about a Beaver on floats flying out of the San Francisco bay, after all, I was born in that city... I'm pretty sure the hospital where I entered this world had a view of the Golden Gate Bridge. So a beautifully shot video that goes in-depth about a genuine love for flying set in my birth city, including views of the Golden Gate from the air, is pretty much guaranteed to make me emotional. But I think the stories of flying shared by the people in the video stand a good chance of moving you too.
Watch it. Share it. #LoveToFly
Video screenshot of the throttle quadrant on the Beaver: nostalgic perfection!
Seaplane Adventures full version from John Vigran on Vimeo
Reader Comments (3)
Wow!
Just frickin' Wow!
That says everything that I can't say to someone about why I love flying. Thank you so much for sharing. A ten year old said what I have never been able to put into words.
This just rocks. It will be shared liberally.
Alex- I'm very happy to see this great video has connected with you like it did with me : )
A fabulous post, and then some!.
Those with just one molecule of interest in aviation would know they have seen true beauty here.
I became aware of aeroplanes, (I'm Australian) at the age of 6, in 1956, when an Uncle took me to an airfield and led me through the apron on the field of Control-line models, I was irreversibly infected by days end, luckily, never to recover.
I could not fly, (heart thingy), but through my career in the R.A.A.F. (G/A/G Comms), I and my family have travelled the world, it's been a wonderful journey, and it continues.
Both our boys served in the R.A.A.F., one still does.
Aeroplanes figure prominently in my 4-year old Grandsons psyche, he accepts that helicopters do not fly- the Earth rejects them, (according to his Grandpa), ...I have a plan for him and I to fly in a Douglas DC-3, (s'pose I'll have to inform his Mother). here's hoping he catches the incurable bug!.
My first BIG aeroplane I was shown through, (same Uncle), was a QANTAS Super Constellation, sublime of line, and almost as elegant and beautiful as my Mother.
I still get goose bumps as I type this.