Boeing 707 Jetliner Promo Film - 1960

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[@peterdabba6862]

Every passenger on that first American Airlines flight across The USA to New York were given a specially Minted Coin to mark the occasion . i still have it a treasured remembrance of how I was a part of History

[@Artur1959]

I was given something even more valuable that memorable day of January 23rd 1959: I was given birth!!!!!!!!!

[@JDAbelRN]

peter dabba like see a picture of that coin, must be worth quite a bit.

[@Schrottkralle]

I was lucky to start my career as a young flight attendant on the Boeing 707, the last ones operated by a major European airline in 1982. It was fascinating to see passengers reading books or talking to each other on long-haul flights with this single-aisled aircraft. No movies, no music, but no one complained. Even though the 747 was already in service at that time, obviousely people seemed to enjoy flying with this milestone of civil aviation. I really enjoyed working aboard this plane. But too soon the 707 was phased out and I was promoted to work on another milestone of civil aviation: the 747! My very last flight before retirement took place on a classic livery 747-8 in 2015. But I will never forget my young years as a flight attendant aboard this great aircraft!

[@albear972]

A 707 still flying in 1982? Dang! That was a, shall we say, was a *very mature airplane* (meaning old)

[@johannesbols57]

I flew First on BA in 2008 SEA - LHR and Club World BA same route a year later. I never used the inflight videos, I always brought books and wrote letters. You can watch a movie any time, but there's nothing to compare to writing letters and post cards on a biggish table, and being seen to by friendly cabin crew!

[@TheUglyGnome]

@@albear972 Last passenger version of 707 was built in 1978. So the plane could have been only 4 years old. In matter of fact 707 was used in passenger service until 2015. Planes are not like iPhones which get old in couple of years. They last decades and if maintained properly are just fine even when they are 30 to 40 years old.

[@MichaelCohen48]

This film seems to suggest the Boeing ushered in the first commercial jet airliner. In fact the first was British. On 2 May 1952, a BOAC De Havilland Comet took off as the world's first jetliner.

[@asteiner321]

The 50's era cars in the video emphasize the age in which this plane was conceived. This plane truly changed the world.

[@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs]

The B707-320B model with PW JT3D turbofans replacing the turbojets perfected this aircraft. We had a 38 inch seat pitch in economy whereas 34 inches is normal now (32 in budget carriers). The B707 cruised faster and higher than current jets. We wanted for nothing. I loved the meals and the flight attendants.

[@HardRockMaster7577]

@@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs Back when oil and jet fuel was cheap...

[@nicholasramsey5331]

I remember watching a "National Geographic" documentary about trans-Atlantic ocean liners, and how their business was completely wiped out by air travel.

[@mattryan4816]

If you index for inflation, oil and fuel in 2019 are about the same costs as in 1963.

[@priestpilot]

The underwater pressure test is interesting to see. This is how the de Havilland Comet was tested for stress fatigue during the investigation following its unfortunate accidents that were not well understood at the time. It was a hypothesis at the time and they were able to determine that after a certain amount of flight cycles, the Comet came apart.

[@cristovaodacosta4000]

At that time I was nineteen years old working for Wagons-Lits//Cook,in Lisboa,Portugal-and Pan Am invited a small group of Travel Agents,for the inaugural flight between May 26th-30th,1959 -visiting Paris and Roma. What a great moment for Aviation-and for all of us! memories that we will never forget! thank you Pan Am!

[@coolbreezejoe44]

This plane was actually comfortable on long flights this is the plane That took me to and from Vietnam back in the late 60’s and we got 1st class service on way back from Vietnam Very Shagadelic! Ya I’m from San Francisco

[@knikwind8458]

Out of high school I was hired in August 1958 as an inspector due to top score on entrance test. I became an inspector on final assembly for the 707 in Renton. Loved working on that amazing aircraft.

[@brianarbenz7206]

I too was out of something in August 1958 -- my mother's uterus. I took my first commercial airline flight six years later, It is nice to know you were inspecting them, paving the way for my safety. Thanks!

[@supersixjones8905]

I would have loved working on the line in Renton during the 707 and 727 days.

[@krabenaldt7605]

What amazes me is that the design of the 707 does not look much different that the current airliners, some 60 years later.

[@Mithrasboy]

Actually, if you look at the British Comet, a jet airliner predating this one by 10 years or the British VC 10, they look even more fabulous and futuristic. The fact that airliners still look remarkably similar is that engineers got the shape right for sub sonic aircraft quite early on. There is little to be usefully served by altering the design - it works very well. What has changed are the materials the aircraft is made from and of course the engines and flight controls. They are massively more advanced. Today's aircraft are about efficiency and safety not speed.

[@alexmontgomery255]

The Comet prototype first flew in 1949 and the aircraft that would become the 707, the 367-80 first flew in 1954.

[@valvlog4665]

I found this video very peaceful to watch. A mix of the narrator's gentle tones, the champagne at 1:23. 2:08 babies didn't even cry on flights in those day. BUT 1:47 the ciggie. Yeah, you could still do that then.

[@DarrenBonJovi]

All the lounge jazz in the soundtrack :D

[@roadracer1158]

The music from this time interesting. With the exception of classical music you seldom hear the flute featured in any modern music. Also, the post WW II period up until the mid-sixties was the "golden time" for America. We were innovative and we actually made stuff in the U.S.!!! Imagine that! We made TV sets, wash machines, trains, buses, airplanes, and you name it! No more. U.S. manufacturing has all but disappeared and now all we do is play with money. Our economy has become "financialized" and we're no longer a nation that produces anything but instead speculates with money. How sad.

[@mikezinn7212]

Road Racer: very popular in the 1960s

[@HardRockMaster7577]

It was very "I Spy", hip jazzy music. It's what was done before "The Beatles."

[@brianarbenz7206]

Remember the TV show "The World Tonight" broadcast on 2001: A Space Odyssey? Its beginning theme was of that style: kzbin.info/www/bejne/naPUoISqq8edg9E

[@MagnumMike44]

I've been on the Boeing 707-320 a number of times when I was a child, the aircraft, though ancient aviation technology now, I remember one of the long flights and they had excellent service, even in coach, and we got a full meal too.

[@Androidandmore101]

MagnumMike44 even in the 90s I had full meals in coach. Now a days WiFi is the luxury.

[@giancarlocipolla4416]

My first fly was on a 707 in 1968 from Rome to Sydney, one of my best memories.

[@DannyEastVillage]

My first was on a 707 from Dulles to London in 1969. I remember it as if it were last Summer. But the next year the 747 was online, and I was one it's "first million passengers" (LOL) on Air France from Orly to JFK. The food and the service were amazing: in economy class they served filet of beef and later in the afternoon, a cold buffet featuring pate en croute, caviar and champagne. As a 16-year-old kid from Charlotte, NC, I barely what any of it was, but that didn't stop me from eating it. Also, the flight attendants were charming and very kind to this naive Southern boy. Air travel was such a different animal in those years.

[@MrShobar]

A company-owned F-86 if off the left wing at 4:12. This aircraft is now housed at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.

[@MrShobar]

N7503A, American Airlines "Flagship California" was delivered in 1958. It was scrapped in 1977.

[@jamesguitarshields]

FAA pilot smoking in the cockpit at 15:30... a different era.

[@bryanferguson7617]

The good old days!

[@jean-paulvanewijk1810]

The days when the FAA actually certified aircraft themselves, instead of outsourcing the work to Boeing...

[@alexmontgomery255]

I love this aircraft. My first flight in one was in 1962.

[@ketoking9435]

A toast to the Golden age of travel,,,

[@HardRockMaster7577]

A toast to the Golden Age of American Manufacturing & Corporate Dominance.

[@renorailfanning5465]

I flew on a Western 720B from LAX to SAC during the summer of 1976 or 1977. It was a combi version that actually had a 4 seat lounge in the back.

[@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs]

I like that 1960 American accent.

[@byrondot]

This is the best video of the channel, hands down.

[@mcdonnell220]

Glad you enjoyed it Byron, thanks.

[@MrShobar]

The Boeing Flight Center hangar at Boeing Field is visible in background at 2:30. It was built for the B-52 program.

[@MrShobar]

"Dash-Eighty", the 707 prototype is shown at 22:24. It was perhaps the most heavily-modified aircraft of all time, carrying a number of test flight projects for other models, including the B-727 and the B737.

[@dougball328]

and it is now resting in the Udvar-Hazy wing of the National Air and Space Museum adjacent to Washington Dulles airport. It was a slow process getting it from Seattle to D.C. because the landing gear could not be retracted, hence a lot of drag and placard speeds to adhere to.

[@MrShobar]

Prior to that, it was languishing in the desert in Arizona.

[@dougball328]

I live in AZ - there are a great many wonderful old planes just baking in the sun here.

[@JDAbelRN]

A truly beautiful airliner.

[@missGraceJones]

i love the flute at the beginning!

[@johnaddeo2251]

The flute . . . the official instrument of air travel in the 1960's.

[@pauljohansson7697]

@Crazy Sven Copenhagen.

[@HardRockMaster7577]

It's not Ian Anderson, but it'll due.

[@pwrfl2357]

one of the best looking planes ever

[@nicolasbraun2642]

those low-bypass engines must have been so loud!

[@alfredenisz4775]

At least this jet did not break apart like the Comet. Boeing learned from DeHaviland's mistakes.

[@danielshon]

Fantastic plane B 707

[@jonnreid2978]

The golden age of air travel!

[@bobbypaluga4346]

Hell no, we don't need no stinkin' hush kit. Boeing's 707 test pilot, Tex Johnson looked absolutely cosmopolitan, no cowboy hat or boots, and his comments were very brief.

[@MrShobar]

Alvin "Tex" Johnston speaking at 3:39.

[@LivviEquestrian]

even the 747 or 787 or a lot of other modern aircraft travel no faster than the 707, she was the epitome of the jet age.

[@navymmw]

yeah but they are far more efficient, cleaner, quieter, carry more people, and cheaper

[@GlamorousTitanic21]

Did you notice from 3:00 to 3:14 the 707’s turn radius. It could be turned on a dime and according to the pilots you could fly it with just your thumb and a forefinger.

[@sundar999]

Well, we actually fly a little slower today. New wing design to save fuel.

[@peterdabba6862]

No the 707 was faster then modern jets - with the first generation engines they flew at mach 9 while today's fly at mach 8.1 or 2- a 707 flying east bound LAX-JFK could do the trip in 4.5 hours most of the time

[@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs]

navymmw slight engine improvements would have brought the aircraft up to standards. For instance adding in the CFM56 engine as used in USAF versions. The big Boing wing meant the 707 can fly higher and therefore more efficiently.

[@MrShobar]

Still another innovation of the 707 program was the malady known as jet-lag.

[@ernestkovach3305]

Stop being such a snowflakey like Wussy. I fly often and never EVER have I had this thing called "jet lag". Jet Lag? Jet Lag?1 Smet Bag!

[@richardsfault1]

Love the music!

[@zinccharlie3050]

King of The Skies

[@ernestkovach3305]

1959: 7 miles up...600 (plus) miles per hour just like TODAY! Impressive!

[@mubarak3457]

The music is amazing!!!! Who’s playing that ????

[@mynorescobar3015]

My first flight was on one of the Jet Clippers named Virginia I still have a napking from that flight,It was Guatemala City To New York City o February 26 1977.

[@richterkleiber]

Wonderful film of a magnificently beautiful and stylized design of a jetliner. Many of these films captured an idealized aesthetic of their vision of a new age with matching chill lounge muzak, but this has overly frilly flute flourishes that are irritating and busy. I love how the announcer declares “the year was 1959... ‘ehno dahminee’ “ gotta love the accent on a phrase no longer used in secular format. Please do upload more of these promotional films!

[@mcdonnell220]

They are all already uploaded...no more new ones to come. I do have about 120 of them uploaded...that's all I have, unfortunately.

[@richterkleiber]

Thanks for the reply-wow I didn’t realize there were so many-I’ll go through and watch! Thank you~

[@mcdonnell220]

@@richterkleiber kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZa6dpevjpKUgrM

[@bobduvar]

When the Americans were still beautiful....

[@ewmegoolies]

Music by Gene Sargent, but cannot find much on him. Any links are appreciated.

[@GlamorousTitanic21]

Anyone notice from 3:00 to 3:14 the 707’s turn radius. It could be turned on a dime and according to the pilots you could fly it with just your thumb and a forefinger.

[@imonymous]

Isn't that possible on all planes since?

[@Mgaffo222]

Imon it is

[@GH-oi2jf]

This starts off by giving the false impression that the B707 was first. But the Comet carried its first passengers in 1952.

[@hairybear7705]

Yes indeed...but even if Comet had not had the tragic structural failure, I think the 707 would soon have out-classed the Comet.

[@Keithbarber]

The 707 DID outclass the comet, I agree, but the comet flew first to and you can't take that away from the comet

[@Ed_Cairns]

The Canadian built AVRO Jetliner flew just a few days after the Comet and was the first jetliner to deliver "Air Mail" to New York.

[@FrankJacobsTV]

At that time, we were proud of flying the world. Now, we are ashamed of doing that. The times have changed.

[@rodrigocatano2213]

I flew in this marvelous airplane from Medellin to New York Avianca 052 march 19th, 1977

[@MrShobar]

The staggering costs of acquiring the B-707 for TWA resulted in the ouster of Howard Hughes from TWA.

[@smelly_elvis]

How did they get Ron Burgundy to play Jazz Flute for the score of this classic 707 film.

[@Armsterman123]

4:17 world's first go pro?

[@MagnumMike44]

It's interesting to see the first variant of the 707 with all the engine pylons were shaped exactly the same, with the newer 707 variants, the pylon for engine #1 had a different shape than those for the other 3 engines, I don't know why Boeing did that but it was just odd to see that. :-)

[@mcdonnell220]

No turbo compressor in the #1 engine pylon, but in the other three. All 720s, 720Bs, plus AA 707-123Bs, have just two such compressors, on engines 2&3 only. All the turbojet powered (JT3C-6 & JT4A), and Rolls Royce Conway powered aircraft had a compressor in all four pylons.

[@ernestkovach3305]

Thank You Mr. Clarence Kelly Johnson!

[@excavatoree]

One nice thing about the 707 is that it can do everything but read. Take the wings off and you could use it for a tank.

[@MrGlendale111]

Seems to me I heard that in an Airport Movie

[@andyharman3022]

Yep. George Kennedy as maintenance supervisor Joe Petroni in Airport. I love that movie.

[@amerigo88]

Very high corporate tax rates allowed Boeing to underwrite the development of the 707 / KC-135. The military needed a jet powered aerial refueling tanker to keep up with the B-47 and B-52 bombers. Boeing used development costs to reduce their gross profits from Korean War military contracts, lowering their taxes and setting them up to really compete with Douglas which controlled about 95 percent of the passenger aircraft market in the USA in the early 1950's (DC-3, DC-4, DC-6, and DC-7). Britain's DeHavilland Comet was the first commercial jetliner, but metal fatigue problems led them to disintegrate in midair. At the 13:30 mark, Boeing is using that water tank (pioneered in Britain) to ensure the 707 / KC-135 would not have metal fatigue problems. The Alabama Air National Guard still flies KC-135's out of Birmingham's Shuttlesworth Airport as of September 2017 - saw one fly by yesterday. It is taking a while to field the replacement...

[@donaldstanfield8862]

Samuel Thompson I read the Boeing planes were built with skin four times thicker than the original Comet - what a shame they didn't realize the error sooner, but Boeing had built so many pressurized jet bombers, they had def. advantage.

[@skyking0475]

Sure , try to fly SFO-JFK-SFO in one day with meetings and dinner . A tidy 20 hr day

[@MrShobar]

Gov. and Mrs. Edmund G. "Pat" Brown of California at 5:42. They were the parents of the present governor on California.

[@HardRockMaster7577]

Pat Brown pushed through the Oroville Dam construction. . .

[@paulcheek5711]

cars and planes were more pretty back then

[@skyking0475]

And so 59 years ago the 737 blueprint is created . And now the Max 8 is its end

[@valvlog4665]

The 737 has been a fabulous work horse plane for airlines world wide. The plane is fine as I understand, it's the software that's failed aeronautics 101.

[@leesantos9711]

Looks like a roomy 727 with four engines !

[@Mgaffo222]

lee santos Cuz the 727 was based off this?

[@doogboy]

WOW!

[@hayleydanhirschfeld4862]

Mach .83 way faster then the current 737-8 that I fly lol.

[@tropenband]

Anyone has an idea if this soundtrack is available somewhere or has ever been officially released?

[@HardRockMaster7577]

I Googled Gene Sargent, but there's not much there... kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJyql3ukpNieqdU

[@MerleOberon]

The flight crew being interviewed looks like they're in front of a Caravelle.

[@DannyEastVillage]

i noticed that--the rear-mounted engines..

[@davidwratten7728]

That's what I thought

[@jaminsurqhart8892]

So 70 years there has been no advancement in passenger flight. First 707 flight LA to NY was 4 hours. Non-stop flights today take 5 to 6 hours

[@dawaj3715]

It flies much better than their 737 MAX

[@benmace5376]

Boeing got it right the first time.

[@djdigital3806]

Educational 🤔

[@atlanticsoldydemos1940]

jees these engines are screaming from the plane

[@alexmontgomery255]

The early 707’s used turbojets which are much louder than the turbofans which were first installed in 1960.

[@miguelgabriel7568]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@lrg3834]

Interesting fact: in terms of metal fatigue resistance, the Boeing 707 cannot hold a candle to the Douglas DC-8. During water tank testing of the latter, the first crack appeared only after 113,000 cycles (takeoff and landing pressure simulations)! The 707 falls quite short by comparison. Point: Boeing doesn't always make the best product.

[@gregghanson6095]

Amazing, is it not, that jet travel has gotten noting but worse since 1960..

[@EnergeticWaves]

Gregg Hanson sure has, airports are like a slum these days. planes carry too many fat disgusting people too.

[@EnergeticWaves]

some countries still have decent airports and new planes, just not this one.

[@B.E.A.R]

Gregg Hanson we even managed to slow down planes. We once could fly from London to New York in 3 hours. Now it’s 8 hours

[@yasmeenshahida1994]

Gorgeous Ladies of 50s I should have born much earlier to grab one.Shahid M Baloch.

[@barrytipton1179]

Just remind me when first flight of uk comet took place lot earlier than 707 ... I know comet fell out of sky well mk2 version due to worn drills and metal fatigue etc bla bla bla but uk gave USA all our reseach why comet fell out of sky and u gave us nowt . If u want help sorting out 737 max ring us on uk

[@supersixjones8905]

Nice try. Boeing introduced the first ALL metal airliner in the 1930s and the first pressurized airliner in 1938 with the 307 stratoliner. They developed the 37 degree swept wing pod mounted engine configuation that is now standard across the industry with the B-47 in the late 1940s when Dehaviland was still using wood in air frame construction. after that the B-52 which is still flying today. The 707 has NOTHING in common with the Comet. Maybe if the British would have consulted Boeing on the other hand, the Comet would have worked.

[@s.sestric9929]

I suppose the British invented the light bulb and the telephone too.

[@jasons44]

boeing has some problems

[@baladinbaladin2549]

1 an apres je venais au monde et 85 travailler sabena

[@deadfreightwest5956]

29:42 - Ah, Tehran, where our brand-spanking new CIA installed a dictator after overthrowing the first democracy of the Middle East. That turned out well, didn't it?

[@jbrian80]

Masterful communist propaganda. Democracy my ass, in your eyes all socialist countries are very democratic. The election you claimed to be democratic was in fact only applied in the Urban areas, excluding the rural areas.

[@ernestkovach3305]

No it did NOT turn out well! Not for them..not for us..and NOT FOR HIM either!

[@GH-oi2jf]

- It may not have been a Western-style democracy, but nevertheless Mosaddegh was chosen by Iranians. The Shah was installed by the intervention of the US and UK. He was a tyrant.

[@HardRockMaster7577]

That's how we rolled post WWII. American Global Business benefited the most. Lots of trickle down then, before CEO's pay grew to over 200x the line employee.

[@raywhittington1368]

As then, it is still extremely annoying that they added ridiculous musical scores to these films. Makes them difficult to enjoy.

[@HardRockMaster7577]

The Beatles coudn't have come soon enough!!

[@johnanderson9494]

Development paid for by the American taxpayer using pilfered European technology but Boeing cried fowl when European government money built the first Airbus.

[@JDAbelRN]

I guess the "pilfered " technology did not include the poorly designed windows that caused metal fatigue, which causes numerous passenger deaths of de havilland comet. I guess the Americans were more exacting of their design which resulted in the billions of cash earned by Boeing, McDonnell, Douglas, Lockheed over the consortium of the subsidized Airbus.

[@supersixjones8905]

B.S Boeing introduced the first pressurized airliner in 1938 with the 307 stratoliner. What military contract did Boeing have prior to that time that paid for the technology? NONE. The B-47 was the airplane that became the blueprint for the 707 and ALL modern jetliners that followed. 37 degree swept back wing and POD MOUNTED engines. Why did'nt Boeing bury them in the wings like the Comet? A terrible design.