She wondered how do airplanes fly. Within hours, her grandson turned curiosity into reality because 'dreams don’t have an age'
A video shared by Ravi Raj Rajpurohit on Instagram shows his grandmother experiencing her first airplane journey. The moment began when she saw a plane from the window and wondered how it flies. Just a few hours later, her grandson turned that cur...

The heartwarming moment was shared by Ravi Raj Rajpurohit on Instagram, where he posted a video capturing his grandmother’s very first journey on an aeroplane.
A simple question that started it all
According to the text shown in the video, the moment started earlier that same day. The elderly woman was looking out of a window when she noticed a plane in the sky and wondered how it managed to fly.The text in the clip explains the moment clearly: “She saw a plane from the window this morning and wondered how it flies. A few hours later, she was on her first flight.”
Instead of letting the curiosity remain just a passing thought, her grandson decided to do something about it. Within hours, the plan was made and the grandmother was on her way to the airport for an experience she had never had before.
The video shared online follows different parts of the journey. It shows the grandmother walking through the airport, slowly taking in the surroundings that were completely new to her. There are also glimpses of the boarding process and finally a small moment where she is seated inside the aircraft.
In those short clips, she can be seen quietly observing everything around her. For someone taking a first flight at an older age, even the small things — the seat, the window, the atmosphere inside the plane — seem to become part of the experience.
The post does not mention where the flight was headed, but the focus of the video is clearly the emotion and the memory behind the moment rather than the destination itself.
'Some dreams don’t have an age'
Sharing the video, Ravi Raj Rajpurohit wrote a short caption that summed up the story behind it. “Some dreams don’t have an age. Today dadi took her first flight.”Among the comments, one message particularly stood out. A user wrote: “Jinhone hume chalna sikhaya, aaj woh khud aasman ki udaan bhar rahi hain. (The one who taught us how to walk are flying today.)”
For the grandmother in the video, the journey seems to have started with a simple question while watching the sky. A few hours later, that curiosity turned into reality when she finally sat inside an airplane herself.
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