Boeing 707 Prototype "Dash 80" Promo Film - 1955

From GDS Creations (1991) For educational & non commercial purposes only. RARE promo featuring her highness, 367-80. Includes roll-out, first flight, etc. Be sure to check my channel for the best in VINTAGE & RARE airliner videos!
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[@dongmo1]

My dad, Glenn H. Jones was head of the Boeing photo unit and produced this film.

[@livingroomset2084]

Awesome

[@DMSDrummer]

SO COOL!

[@AbyssClips197]

Fascinating

[@jungletension2835]

Our dads were Heroes back then

[@Dan.d649]

A known fact: The very model 707, nobody knew better than Alvin "Tex" Johnston. His demonstration of this airplane, and what it can do, simply showed that it was going to be a success. On one particular day, he took his airplane up, and did the "unthinkable". The rest is obvious.

[@MrRandomcommentguy]

Beautifully simple design - that's exceptional engineering

[@MrShobar]

It was, in my estimation, the best engineered product that Boeing built. Some of the flight test and engineering data is still used there.

[@jamitaylor3882]

My dad was one of the engineers on this plane

[@questadversary]

This event took place just 10 years after the end of the war. considering the advances in aviation technology and engineering (piston propulsion to turbojet to turbofan) within that short time-span alone demonstrates the immense capabilities of human innovation; even in those days. To put things in perspective, one can only imagine what technological marvels are being developed behind closed doors today.

[@НовиСадСрбија]

All you can imagine exists

[@lrg8734]

Yes, in less than 30 years time (if that), all life composed of flesh will be erased by autonomous, self-learning androids aided by autonomous, killer drones unless the Master Programmer and Sustainer steps in and puts a stop to it. Progress without character and righteousness is a recipe for disaster, which we will soon learn in no uncertain terms. The problem: nations and corporations operate on the principle of kill or be killed instead of love and cooperation.

[@sundar999]

Almost correct but rather 9 years after the war, first flight July 15, 1954😊

[@MrShobar]

0:35. "Christening" at the back end of the Renton Plant. Next to Lake Washington. It was built as a company project in a corner of the plant.

[@Shoorit]

Engineers nailed the design of this.

[@encinobalboa]

Passenger planes have not changed much since the Dash 80. Boeing got it right on day one.

[@Calakaz]

So glad I subscribed, this is such an awesome video!

[@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc]

Never understood the bilious colour scheme on this innovative and defining design. Set the general layout of commercial air transport to this day. Engineering at its finest.

[@lebensbornguardianazis3907]

707 ✈Papa dos aviões de passageiros😉

[@igormarinkovic1531]

And you still see it today in 737Max nose :)))

[@apolloniaaskew9487]

The 8 people that don't like the video work for Airbus. The best $16 million ever spent and every jetliner , whether McDonnell Douglas, Convair, Lockheed and the British and Russians followed it's basic design.

[@lrg3834]

Best $16 million Boeing ever spent. In contrast, Douglas spent more than $450 million to develop the DC-8.

[@diegosilang4823]

Howard Hughes missed another opportunity with jet airliners. Kauffman, a Pan Am manager, had a dinner with Boeing VP Wellwood Beall about Howard Hughes making a phone call from Florida. When Hughes learned about the Dash 80 prototype and wanted an option for 10 aircraft without physically looking at the aircraft. Beall replied, as a standard procedure, asked Hughes to send his technical team to evaluate the prototype then negotiate for a contract. Hughes was upset and hang up the phone.

[@DMSDrummer]

This was the only Boeing Commercial Jet that Bill Boeing ever got to see

[@jpmerrick8886]

Think ten years before we were flying d3 at 10000 feet at 180mph

[@thefallen2811]

It had a shorter nose than the 707 and narrower fuselage. Am I right?

[@mcdonnell220]

Yes, absolutely correct.

[@MrRandomcommentguy]

I understand the Dash 80 shares almost no parts with the production 707... actually isn't the KC-135 in fact also radically different despite a strong superficial resemblance?

[@lrg8734]

It took strong-arm tactics on the part of Juan Trippe (founder of Pan Am) to convince Boeing to widen the fuselage to six abreast. He did so by placing an order for 25 DC-8's (designed as a six abreast jet right from the get-go) concurrently with 20 707's. As a result, Boeing wasted no time to make the necessary alterations.

[@НовиСадСрбија]

No wars no technology. Thats whats up

[@aniketb2010]

informative :)

[@soccerguy2433]

I still basicallyvfly this plane... Kc-135

[@jbrian80]

Boeing made a vague attempt to reuse the Stratoliner name for the 707 (a reference to Boeing bomber names Stratojet and Stratofortress) but for some reason Boeing later dropped it. Maybe because 307 Stratoliner might jinxed the 707? Soviet and British aircraft designers hated the wing mounted podded engines, they both prefer a clean wing design for stability and better landing performance. It took Ilyushin bureau a clever political maneuvering to convinced the Soviets aviation elites to adapt the wing mounted podded engines.... Europeans caved in and "Americanized" their aircraft design with the successful Airbus A300 (based on American airline specification)

[@Legitcar117]

The 367-80/707 actually was a heavily redesigned revamp of the kc-97/377, mainly the upper fuselage shape. Before the heavy redesign they had the 367-60 which was the stratocruiser with the dash 80 wings. In the end they went with an almost new design with elements of the stratocruiser.

[@jbrian80]

+LegitGaming117 Boeing first 4 engined pressurized airliner (called stratoliner) shared many components from the B-17, sold poorly when better airliners from Douglas and Lockheed appeared. Stratocruisers are originated from B-29.

[@Legitcar117]

+stickmagnet my bad, I meant stratocruiser, I get the all the stratos and supers mixed up lol

[@jbrian80]

Boeing in 1952. Founded by a German now a suspiciously Scottish sounding named William McPherson Allen is running the show!

[@MrShobar]

What decade are you living in?