Would have been way more fun if filmed in Peter's driveway!

I'd watch a video on your thoughts about a refrigerator, Bill. So stoked to see this!!

How cool is this Bill!! A real airplane that actually flies!!! A Curious Plane for sure. Let's enjoy some coronavirus whiskey & enjoy the video!!! 🥃🛩️

Bravo to the guy over 100 years old that can fly a plane - my 80 year old neighbor can barely back out of his garage without hitting my mailbox😄

As a car guy who fly's for a living, review all the airplanes you can. I'll watch every one of them. I'm hoping to still be alive at 103, much less still be able to fly. God bless him!

Are you serious? This is absolutely great! I grew up with aircraft being my second love, so as far as I'm concerned, throw all the aircraft on here you can find. Awesome Bill, you're the best!❤

That was very cool, Bill! Thank you for risking your life for our entertainment! 😂. I generally like my feet planted firmly on the ground at all times and try to avoid flying even new commercial planes of today! I can’t imagine what a rush that was! It had to be intimidating, intense, and a little scary given how loud and although very neat and fascinating, how antiquated it all looked! And yes, including the pilot! 😂

LOVE IT !!!!! The perfect plane to launch "Curious Planes" !!! A super classic Cessna 170A! Good job, Bill !!! Keep it up ! Mooneys, DC3s ! The sky is the limit ! The world is your oyster ! And stay tuned for even more adventure with Bill's new channel, Curious Boats !!! (Donzi, baby!!!)

"Goatflask to tower, requesting flyby." "Negative, Goatflask, pattern is full."

You're the American James May, you have that niche skill of reviewing anything! And making it interested!

I could hear Bill thinking "for the love of God" as that rig touched down. LMAO RUGER

the old mans shakey hand would be too much for my anxiety to handle lol .

Whether you learned it for the video or just know it from experience over time it's interesting to know that you're as thorough in your knowledge with everything you do a video about.

Re: the ashtrays, wouldn't recommend usage of the front ones in the air. My first flight instructor, also an A&P aircraft mechanic, had me help him remove the interior trim on a Cessna 172 (to prepare it for its annual inspection). Directly behind the ashtrays is the fuel line from the wing to the fuel selector 😂

Bill can review the hell outta anything! Next up, Bill reviews a Tesla rocket!

Excellent more of this please Bill. trains planes and automobiles and the ode British and American motorcycles . I think I will watch this again there is nothing on TV.

Time for Bill to start a new channel called Curious Planes

You need to do another Curious Airplanes...and do a 747

A beauty. Well done review from a non pilot. I’ll let you know when I sell my Cherokee.

I never knew they made a 170 tail dragger Always thought the 172 was it. Beautiful polished aluminum

What a curious car! 😜

Was a nice change of pace. Reminded me of my childhood and my father's old plane, his one escape from the 7 kids. Waiting for a classic speed boat video next.

Handing the pilot a coffee would be like handing a coffee to someone operating a jackhammer.

What a great airplane review. Fantastic explanation of the cockpit controls and the airplane itself. Nice history of Cessna and the characteristics of the 170. As a pilot, I can say you did an excellent job, very thorough and knowledge with your usual sense of humor. If anyone I know is interested in learning to fly, I will recommend this video to them. Luckily their were no birds that you had to evade on your flight. Maybe they knew you were packing. Great job!

EXCELLENT! I love airplanes so PLEASE keep doing airplane reviews!

omg thats so cool!! You could review all kinds of stuff Bill. Id watch it all!

This is Great Bill! I don't fly - but watching this I imagined I could.

I remember riding in the back seat of one of these in the mid '80s with my sister when we kids -I had so much adrenaline going from the short tour we did around Milwaukee -that I threw up in one of the barf bags the guy had on board -just as we were landing too! Great memory grossing my sister out 🙂 The flight was even a blast!!! Awesome review Bill -good job on the camera work too -puts the viewer right in the cockpit!

Do more plane reviews. Lots of them are vintage and old school construction and electronics. Some of us are also pilots I have many hours in Cessnas both tail wheel and trike. Love it. Perfect lighting in the morning sun. Good job! Almost always a vintage car stored in hangers here and there. They go with the planes very well.

You were already my favorite KZfaq Channel. Adding plane reviews is just the icing on the cake. Absolutely love aviation please review more planes.

This is the most enjoyable video I've seen that you have ever done. Good job!

You're taking your channel to ne heights Bill!!!!

Beautiful plane. Had a 170A years ago. Wish I'd never let it go. Still love the sound of that six cylinder.

Curious planes... My new favourite channel. 😎

Wow how crazy is this but just a couple of weeks ago I said to myself that Bill should do a review on an airplane and I started to put it in the comments on his last car review video

What a FUN video, don’t make it your last. Enjoyed

I hope its not the last review of a plane this was cool 👍

Wait a minute... Now Bill is reviewing airplanes, and he’s ok with the weather? Did I slip into an alternate dimension!?

I got to fly in a 1940s model 170 tail dragger and it was a blast! No frills but it got the job done!

Jus knew Bill would be excited about the ashtrays.

Well done Bill! Brought back childhood memories, Dad's 1st plane was Piper taildragger in 60's b4 owning twins (Aztec, 310, Navajo(P)).Glad no bird strikes!

Wonderful 👍. My father learnt to fly in a air coupe. His first was an Auster. He then bought a de Havilland chipmunk and kept it at Biggin Hill. He had others but he said the chipmunk was the most fun. My mother eventually grounded him, partly the cost, and partly because they had six children. Dennis Pritchard, ex RAF and retired accountant. Wonderful video Bill.

Do another unique airplane! As a pilot, I give your review a B+ 😂 Your sarcastic, dry, gruff sense of humor AND airplanes is something I never thought I would be able to experience 😂 I'd love to see it at least one more time!!!

I soloed at age 16 flying a Cessna 150 Aerobat. But never found the time or money to finnish the full flying course and aquire my private Pilots license. I did rent a plane from time to time and go up by myself or solo a Piper Trypacer and a Cessna 172 all the way up to my 18th birthday, but after I got hired by General motors in 1977 I lost interest in flying and moved on to fast cars, fast boats, and fast women and never looked back. Great video.

Great video, Bill! Even the chipper Canadians came onboard! Lol I'm thinking a vintage WWII tank would make for another memorable review!

I grew up in St Pete, pretty cool getting to see it from the sky. Now I live in the north ga mountains where it was 54 degrees out this morning. This was a nice review, bill. Cars might be my main love and interest, but all things mechanical are pretty neat to learn about.

a new career path for Bill

This was awesome! My grandad was a pilot his entire adult life, and my old man grew up flying around in planes of this vintage as a kid during the 60s. Pretty wild to see the cheer amount of switchgear and such required to just get the thing in the air. I have a newfound respect for small aircraft pilots.

Great looking plane. I also like the Taildragger version better than the nose-wheel 172s. That navigation instrument under the throttle lever is a "Course Deviation Indicator (CDI)". This is the instrument that makes this plane IFR capable, which is Instrument Flight Rated, as opposed to Visual Flight Rated. When you use your NAV radio to dial into the freq. of a directional radio beacon, you set a desired course direction to/from that beacon on the CDI, and the vertical line will move Left or Right to indicate your deviation from that course. What that means is, if you want to fly on a 120 degree course towards the beacon, you dial that in, and then keep a heading that makes the vertical line stay in the center of the dial. The horizontal line works the same way, but it's intended to work in conjunction with a runway beacon that guides you vertically down the proper descent path (glide-slope) to touchdown, so you can safely descend & land when weather prevents you from seeing the runway very well for most of your approach.

This video needs to be linked from AOPA's site! Love the history you provide and callouts to SPG Airport (Whitted) and general aviation in particular - great video!!!! PLEASE don't make this your LAST aircraft review!! 🛩

There ya go Buddy! And the weather is good? oh never mind. ;)

Beautiful plane, love the aluminum like the older AA.

Bill - this is the Best Video U have ever done. U Really Need to do more Airplane stuff 🎉

Man the ending of this video was awesome.

The Lindbergh uncle ?!? Bill's singular sense of humor strikes again.

That was an awesome video, Bill. Beautiful flight footage, too. Ive never been up close to a Cessna but watching this vid was almost like being there. Don’t know why, but the takeoff brought a tear to my eye. It seemed so effortless.

what can I say :))) thanks again Bill, your videos are always so much appreciated ! Just watch out for those birds, they'll really gonna be after you now 🐦

Bill the Aviator - good job

Hi Bill hope you are keeping well and flying around under the influence of Anti Soviet whiskey.

Wow, I've been in a 170 several times, and that's exactly how I remembered riding in it. Thanks for the memories, I miss those days.

Cool pilot 😎

Very cool video Bill. A lot of balls going up in that thing

Holy crap! Too cool!

This Plane is In Amazing Shape for it being a 1950s model

Don't know how I missed this, but it's great to see. You're a quick study.. great job 👍

Bill - this Cessna video is probably the Very Best video U have ever done! U need to start - doing more Damn Airplane videos! Seriously. This is your Best Video Ever !!

Beautiful classic aircraft. Loved your review, Bill. Any of your viewers, like myself, love airplanes as much as vintage cars. Well done!

It is a 1951. From the outside it looks mint. They really took great care of it. It is a beauty.

I love this change of pace, Bill. Some of my favorite articles in Car and Driver were about whacky vehicles.

Bill, what are friends for. Love your sense humor!

Bill, feel free to take the odd excursion into trains and planes. Your presentation is why I watch your channel.

Bill reviews a plane and the weather is nice.

Totally awesome to see something that me being average worker never get to fly in plane thanks to you it was awesome

I cannot believe you went up in a 71 year old Cessna with some dude who is 102 years old! No amount of Coronavirus whiskey could make me do that. Yet you tremor at the site of bird that landed in a tree 500 feet away! 😢 We all have our fears, but I would never gone up in THAT plane with THAT guy flying it. Bless you Bill, that video made my day!

Pleasant surprise :) Love this channel

MORE! Great video Bill

"Same time tomorrow, Mrs Bell?" To be honest, I wasn't sure if I would enjoy this video anywhere near as much as I normally do, BUT I DID!! I love this plane and Cessnas. What a perfect design to get so many people their wings. I don't think Bill had to do too much homework for this; it sounds like he knows a decent amount about planes. I had Smuggler's Blues in my head for much of the flight.

I say, sure, branch out Bill ! regular airpiane reviews would be awesome!!

This was a fun video. Reminds me of when I learned to fly (Piper Tomahawk & C-152). Hopefully Bill had a post-flight beverage there at the airfield!

Excellent flight footage! I'm envious!

This is awesome! Besides to car enthusiast, now you have aircraft enthusiast here!

I love the polished aluminum!

Nice venture from his mainstream (ie: cars) but always enjoy his grumpy / brilliant observations and history lessons

One of the coolest vehicles you’ve reviewed to date, Bill!

39:57. "Despite shitting my pants, it was a tremendous amount of fun." LOL

Great video Bill, can we have more please.

The Cessna 190 had a radial as you referred to with Spirit of St. Louis. Very cool review btw!!!

I would have loved to go up in that Cessna! My father flew Cherokees until the early 80's. Best times of my life!

I know nothing about planes. Very interesting video Bill. Great stuff 👍👍

Great show

We present to you our new channel, Curious Planes.

Send Lawyers Guns and Money! Bill's got access to a plane and he's gonna need em!😂

Next up on curious cars, "after some corona virus vodka therapy, I managed to swindle a Tupolev Tu-95 into my backyard and I'm gonna explain why it's called the American power sander" - Bill

Great commentary on the old fella flying! 😂 nice 170!

Really good video Bill. I totally enjoyed that.

What a strange car.. Can't wait to watch this though!

I don't know what to say Bill, I was worried about my old neighborhood what with the hurricane Idalia, you sure took me on a stroll down memory lane, I remember back in 2003 when they were talking about using the land Albert Whithead was on for development, I had a sign on my lawn that said Support Albert Whitthead. The view was great, the Dali Museum, moved to where the old stadium used to be, Mirror Lake, I still have my parking pass from the inaugural Saint Petersburg Grand Prix in 2003, our main man Dan Wheldon (Lionheart) won it. Thank you for the nice video, I think those things on the back are called horizontal stabilizers, that 1p3 year old guy looked suspiciously like you;)

Bill, you could sell about anything! For someone that isn't into the general aviation, you do point out some very good facts as well as history of the Cessna company and the aircraft design and development. The word you were looking for in the description of the bend in the wing is dihedral, which provides stability in the roll axis on an airplane. Nonetheless, fantastic job in presentation and content, you totally outclass the professional airplane salespeople, perhaps this is new career move?

awesome stuff !

Bill could review a toaster and I'd watch.... Oh wait, he did... That small weird hybrid or electric BMW from a couple years ago!