Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303144467
Format: Color
ISBN: 6303144462
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: Array
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 1994-07-27
Running Time: 35
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1994

"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 Rating:
Summary: Fun
Comment: Informative and fun to watch. My eight year old boy loves it; so do we!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Tesla likes Airplanes
Comment: My little bro ther tesla loves planes and always watchs this and sometimes i do!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: 90 percent good
Comment: Except for the scary parts, like when Dave has to fly the biplane, or the screaming when he loses control over the jet...! my 3-year old loves it, as well as bulldozer and above all helicopter (5 stars). He hates the train video, can't stand when Dave wears the conductor uniform or spills food all over the passengers. There are a few seconds of scary parts in each video: in garbage truck Dave is seen head stuck down in the garbage; in tow truck he smashes up a car trying to get it attached to the tow. It's neccessary to be around when the video is on. Why he likes the explosions in bulldozer is beyond me! But overall, a positive series. I buy them as cheaply as possible though...

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Customer Rating:
Summary: goofy fun for kids (and adults) interested in airplanes
Comment: Dave Hood's series "There Goes a .... " are informative and entertaining. Personally I think this is the weakest of the ones we've seen, but our three-year old loves it. I think too much time is wasted on trivia and it's painful to watch the airline attendant tell us how she greets passengers and shows us where the stirring sticks are located, but try to tell that to your kid! Pilot Dave rides in a stunt plane, a passenger jet, an aircraft carrier and a jumbo UPS carrier, among others, and lots of fun is had by all.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: What should watch an airplane-loving 3 years old kid?
Comment: 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.

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