Product Details

• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, Live, NTSC
• Rated: Unrated
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: July 27, 1994
• Run Time: 35 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303144462
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #163,024 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

"Pilot Dave" Hood, cocreator and host of the There Goes a... series of children's videos, straps himself into a variety of flying machines in this entertaining production. Riding shotgun on a stunt plane that loops and whooshes to a dizzying degree, Hood does a lot of yelping, but he also succinctly and entertainingly describes exactly why airplanes defy gravity. (Adults can learn from this video, too.) We learn the workings of passenger jets, and how the airline industry functions in various other ways, from selling passenger tickets to getting one's luggage to its proper destination. The plentiful comic moments include the sight of Hood falling onto a suitcase conveyor belt. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What should watch an airplane-loving 3 years old kid?, April 4, 2002

By 

Gerardo F. Kloss (México, DF Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: There Goes an Airplane [VHS] (VHS Tape)

My son is just 3 years old and he is far away from becoming a professional of the wide blue yonder, or anything else.
Like many kids of his age, he looks up frequently to the sky and points "look at that plane!", as if he had a factory-installed radar, and at the table he announces that a spoon is about to land, so the noodles will be met at gate 4.
Like many kids of his age, he drags me along, to and across every airport and airfield he sees, and he loves to watch the planes come up, down and around.
So... I began to look for books, videos and other stuff to please him and, at the same time, if possible, recover for myself the power to decide when to go to the nearest airport.

Then I found there were:
1. Movies with planes. He may laugh out loud with Rocky and Bullwinkle, which is imaginative enough for a kid, but sure I will not let him watch Pearl Harbor for a while. Oh, yes. He once had chosen Pearl Harbor at a video store.
2. He's had enough with Barney and the Little Airplane, Bear in the Big Blue Jumbo and Teletubbies Go Flying. He says he's ready for something more extreme.
3. Discovery videos about planes. They are fun and instructive, but you cannot imagine the reaction of the relatives when a 3 year old starts repeating "the force which makes helicopters try to rotate in opposite direction to their rotors is called 'torque'" (toddler pronunciation, please).
4. Videos for pilots. Expensive and much too difficult to translate from 'plane English'.

Then I found this one, fun, instructive, easy, realistic and yet imaginative, containing all real live action he demands, showing from the backstage many real planes just like the ones he sees at the airport.
Now I have decided to buy the entire collection, including fire trucks, garbage trucks, police cars, trains, boats, spaceships and that bunch of big funny noisy machines I don't have in my backyard to show him.

This video is excellent --his words, not mine.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My 2 1/2 year old loves this!, July 27, 2000

By 

Jennifer Bamberg (Austin, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: There Goes an Airplane [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Reading the existing reviews, I thought I'd add my 2 cents. My son (2 1/2 years old) *loves* this video. His other 'There Goes a...' favorites are: Train, Fire Truck, and Bulldozer. As to the age-appropriateness, I think it really depends on the dispostion of your child. And as to the 'buffoon' issue, yes, Dave's a little goofy at times but he always points out safety issues to counter that and the entire series is extremely informative in general. And I'd much rather watch any of this series, *with* the slap-stick than something like Barney or mindless cartoons. We try to limit tv so our son watches these and Sesame Street and that's about it.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great video: entertaining and educational, November 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: There Goes an Airplane [VHS] (VHS Tape)

My kids love this video and watch it over and over again. It's extremely educational, starting with a brief history of the Wright Brothers' first airplane and moving all the way to present-day jet-liners. The narrator, Dave, is funny and talks right to kids ... not at them. I enjoy watching it myself. I couldn't recommend this video more highly.