Indeed, were it not for the
noise, the relentless hurricane-force wind sometimes mixed with bullets
of rain in the face, the occasional bug in the mouth, the near
impossibility of communication, the danger of hypothermia, the
unshielded exposure to the sun's deadly gamma rays, the non-existent
baggage space, the low-pressure airflow over the cockpits that can suck
out charts and papers, the dismal forward visibility, and its otherwise
shameless impracticality, an open-cockpit biplane might just be the most
ideal aircraft ever conceived - surely the most magnificent of all of
man's wondrous machines. Author Unknown