Initially there was no seating in the cattle cars or open gondolas; most of the passengers were to remain standing the entire trip.

Poiana Brasov offers two main cablecars plus an open gondola and seven draglifts.

Joe Kittinger, during his ascent to 102,800 ft (19.5 miles) in an open gondola, lost pressurization of his right hand.

The open gondola offered the crew and passengers little protection from the elements.

The normal man does not feel vertigo even in the open gondola of a balloon, floating through the air a few kilometres above the ground.

The Union soldiers were riding open gondola or platform cars as the train backed down the track toward Vienna.

The two engines, built by the B F Sturtevant Company of Hyde Park, MA, were mounted in the open gondola, and the propellers could be swiveled to provide thrust in either the horizontal or vertical planes.

Abruzzo and Anderson rode in an insulated open gondola measuring 6 by 6.5 feet (1.8 by 2 meters) which was later reused for Double Eagle II.

Prior to the invention of this type, coils of sheet steel were carried on end or in cradles in open or covered gondolas.

The Strato Lab program used both open and pressurized gondolas built by Winzen Research Inc and the balloon program in the Mechanical Division of General Mills, Inc.