I used to work in the Customs service at Heathrow and there used to be an unofficial "race", the wagon train, from JFK to LHR between TWA, PanAm and British Airways. The VC-10 usually took-off last and overtook the other two in-flight and arrived as much as 1/2 hour ahead.

Note that in the 747-100s from Lufthansa and Scandinavian, the JT9D engines still had those extra inlets that would open or close like on the JT3Ds. Those were eventually abandoned in newer revisions of the JT9D. Also: Many engines like on the VC-10 have, like the 727, exposed reversers where the mechanism for the reversers are fully internal. Unthinkable for today's standards.

There is a mismatch. PAN AM jingle but BOAC and other aircraft.

movie name?

I miss those era of early jets . I prefer classic airliners over the current ones

Bad video.

You never know what you got til it’s gone

most beautiful commercial aircraft, ever

It may just be an optical illusion, combined with the greater noise level of the jets of those times, but it sure appears to me that jets landed at higher speeds in those days. Can anybody confirm or deny that?

Fletcher has redeemed himself

With the retirement of the tactical cargo C-1, Japan will no longer have JT8Ds next year.

Jim Carrey entering the luggae barrier to chase the plane his wife and son is on nabs me with laughter this was one heck of an impossible thing to do in filming to pull over the plane ever.

Beauty

As stated, they're loud, they smoke, but my god weren't they powerful

How sad is it to see how ugly some airlines are painting their jets nowadays? If I had the choice as an airline CEO I would paint my planes with a lot of chrome and a great classical colour choice. Fortunately some airlines know about it and do some Retro Liveries for their planes

Back before today's airlines like Southwest and JetBlue existed we had all these classic airlines you see in this video like Pan Am TWA Northwest Orient & Continental which are all gone now what a shame cause those were all great airlines.

olha ai convair 880 da viarig .

olha ai um convair 880 da varig e a concorrencia com a panair .

Nostalgia..Air India 707 landing at begining of the video❤

I miss those days and those great jets. Raw loud power. Better liveries, much more exciting than now.

The Comet. Hello gorgeous.

Flown on balkan and via tu 154's loved 'em!

I never had the chance to fly the caravelle but yes i did the DC 8,9,10 Boeing 707,720,727 747,757,787 and on the Bus Family were A300,310,320 never have any Russian planes but i have a plan for that go to North Korea

5:03 Fletcher Stops The Plane

A few jet’s landing sounding suspiciously like Vickers Viscount turboprops!

Great times, one will fly in style and dress up too. Airplanes ✈️ and the services and catering were fabulous

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Master pice Amigo

My friend great video with wonderful audio wow congratulations 🎊 such of pice of history 💙 ❤️ appreciated from Barranquilla Colombia 🇨🇴 ❤️ 💙 😀 👏🏾 ♥️ 🇨🇴 ❤️ 💙

5:56 Breguet Atlantic!!!!! French navy😮

flaps 89°

Impressive video of Kowloon City. We spent our merry innicent childhood living under the pathway. Really very very noisy when aircrafts decented iver our heads we thought we could touch them.

I remember back around 2004 or 2005 I flew in a Saha airlines 707 from Kish to Isfahan, it was truly an amazing experience, I have some pictures and a video from it

0:21 that air India 707 wow

"Air inter" doesn't sound very good in the context of league of legends terminilogy and 9/11

What a wonderful VARIETY of superb and iconic aircraft. Today we have A320 and Boeing 737

Shame the Comet-5 was never built.

The Comet looked so retro-futuristic with its sleek engines intergrated into the wings. Beautiful aircraft.

The Comet was nice but not many built after fault occurred in its passenger window design leading to two incidents and the B707 was being introduced. But thanks for the share some good looking aircraft

Such an excellent video and so sharp and clear !!!!

George has got it going on

The smoke pouring out of these is wild

Superb , thank you for share this here Lyubomir Ganchev .

Fletcher really is a desperate fool at the end of his pitiful rope

Hahahahaha ni this video only shows airlines from usa and europe as if other airlines did not exist

8 minutes of pure flying, no computers, no glass cockpits, low emissions on takeoff.. Perfect film!

Dc8 and super dc8 62. Uta and swissair i was too young! Later it was dc 10- 30 uta and swissair. Too fine

Im a fan of dc8 and super dc8 62 when i was young.

At minute 5.56 there is a person, with a red shirt at the back of the scene, who refrains from laughing because next to him is Jim Carry dressed as a fireman, 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

These Russian…’jets’… are the..’jet age’…they’re oyster faced watches, they’re Sinatra, early formica, crittal windows, loud, stunk of kerosene, FANTASTIC,