1962 NEW YORK AIRWAYS HELICOPTER SERVICE TO MANHATTAN PROMOTIONAL FILM 34204

[@thejerseyj9422]

I worked on the cooling tower of the Pan Am building in 1982. We would eat lunch on what was the heliport which took up half of the rooftop. The cooling tower the other half. The "control tower" was only a few feet above the pad of the heliport (it was built into it) and there was still damage to the facade where one of the rotor blades hit it when the landing gear broke. There was also scrapes on the concrete pad itself. All probably still there. One of the coolest parts was we could simply open the door and walk down the escalator to the waiting area where there was a beautiful bar and tables. All closed at the time. I thought, how wonderful it must have been to be affluent in the 50's and 60's. The future was bright and everything was Go Go Go ! What the hell happened ?

[@moongloomable]

Interesting story thanks for sharing.

[@mister_fjk1972]

Flew NYA KV-107 from JFK to Teterboro, NJ via Pan Am Building in '66 coming back from family vacation to Puerto Rico (via Trans-Caribbean Airlines) - what an experience!

[@mikegallant811]

The reason the accident on the pan am heliport occurred was because the right side landing gear fractured from fatigue.

[@rrrglynn]

The one dislike is a taxi driver.

[@visionist7]

The Pan Am building, home of Pan Am, and the Chrysler building, home to Chrysler. How the mighty have fallen

[@jimurrata6785]

Damn! The PanAm building under construction...

[@CaryMGVR]

*I bet the cost is astronomical, but if I could financially swing it,* *that'd be my number one route into the city, no question!* *And look at the way the people are dressed, their comportment.* *When Civilization was still intact ....* 🙂👍🏻

[@thejerseyj9422]

I was 6 years old in '62 and I remember how it was. Oh how far we have fallen.

[@robertewalt7789]

$9.00 fare they said. Not so much, even back then.

[@stevedow5842]

Why is it the past seems so futuristic?

[@tylerhoell7116]

Half the country wasn’t broke and living paycheck to paycheck

[@pcz5233]

I grew up in Bayonne, these choppers flew over our house all the time on their way into the city.

[@auschwism2561]

I like the Lower Manhattan skyline lit up at the end. Never seen a good nighttime flyby of 60s downtown with the lights all on. Also the Singer Building has that small blinking light at the top: another thing I've never noticed before.

[@visionist7]

Should never have touched the Singer Building

[@tomsled9617]

Favorite part is at 12:40 lady in pearls and white gloves. Can you imagine seeing a woman wearing white gloves on an airline today!?

[@JeffFrmJoisey]

That's the way it was back then. My parents dressed us up to go watch the planes at Newark Airport around this time. And, everywhere else we went other than stores, etc. Dressed up to go to the Circus, dressed up to go to The Museum of Natural History. Dressed up to pick up my Grandma at the TWA terminal around 1965/66. It was the style around NYC until the late 60s!!!

[@thejerseyj9422]

@@JeffFrmJoisey wasn't it grand ! I was at those same places with my parents at that time. I'll never forget the first jet airliner we saw at Newark Airport. My mother pointed it out and yelled "hey look there's one of those new jets" ! Can you imagine telling some kid how excited we were to see a jet ?

[@luislaplume8261]

@@thejerseyj9422 I can! I lived near LaGuardia Airport from 1957 til 1961 when we lived in Woodside Queens. I was a little boy at that time.

[@neilfraser1235]

I find it hard to believe the subject of a connecting flight wouldn't have come up if Mr. Foxx was rushing to buy a helicopter ticket for another airport. lol

[@strafrag1]

I took it one night from EWR to LGA with a Manhattan stop. It was a beautiful flight, especially at night.

[@luislaplume8261]

La Guardia Airport is only 5 miles from Midtown Manhattan. I am a New Yorker who grew up in NYC during the Mad Men era.

[@Dra741]

Remember that Pan Am had right on Park Avenue a teleport on top of the Pan Am building and it would take you to the airport we have so much class in New York

[@pi.actual]

Hard to imagine your "connecting" flight taking you to a completely different airport than the one where your "connection" was but I remember a ten minute ride on a Vertol 107 from Oakland to San Francisco back in the early 70's

[@johnk1955]

The boy sitting by the window looks a lot like Tommy Norden (Bud on the TV show Flipper).

[@CaryMGVR]

*... and the water he's flying over is so dirty,* *it looks like the kind of place Flipper would go to score heroin. lol*

[@thejerseyj9422]

My friend and I rated Flipper our favorite show. Ironically in the pilot Bud doesn't even exist. It was only Sandy, Flipper and of course, Ranger Rick's. Who was I thought about the coolest guy on TV.

[@MarcPerp]

GREAT!...

[@heinkle1]

This film is crying out for restoration and preservation

[@PeriscopeFilm]

That's what we've done -- it's been scanned in 4k and stored in our digital library.

[@bendog6872]

I’ve flown in a Navy H46. There is no such thing as airvents reading lights or the ability to have a normal conversation without hearing protection.

[@chopjockey]

What is a turban?

[@heli-crewhgs5285]

Philip George They're worn by Indian helicopter pilots.

[@richardtibbitts3841]

Turbine.

[@davidnull5590]

Was that helicopter lost? How do you pass the Statue of Liberty on the flights between LaGuardia and Idlewild (JFK)? Was he lost or just trying to accumulate more air hours?

[@heli-crewhgs5285]

David Null I think it's called 'artistic licence.'

[@visionist7]

Those were the flights to Newark airport

[@thejerseyj9422]

@@heli-crewhgs5285 you hit the nail on the head. Flying north past the Empire State Building on the way from Newark to Idlewild. 😉

[@LDTV22OfficialChannel]

12:53 BUTTER???

[@feinbhoutti]

This a documentary about trumps childhood, right?