History of Airliners in 15 MINUTES! | Curator on the Loose!

13 planes.
15 minutes.
Can he do it?
Senior Curator Matthew Burchette tries to (literally) race through 100 years of history! He’s cramming the story of commercial airliners into just 15 minutes, using superstar aircraft in our collection like Concorde, the de Havilland Comet, the Boeing 747 and the Lockheed Super Constellation!
What commercial airliner should we add to our collection?
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Note: Running and teleportation are not allowed in The Museum of Flight. Running/teleportation scenes were shot with professional stuntmen on a closed course. Please do not attempt.

[@museumofflight]

The (possibly multi-) million dollar question: If you were running the place, what commercial airliner would you add to our collection?

[@MrDgwphotos]

767 or 777 for ETOPS.

[@MrDgwphotos]

Otherwise, a DC-4.

[@ianmcgee9945]

For a propeller plane, a DC7C. For a jet, maybe a Soviet airliner like an IL-62.

[@jjm007pig]

Boeing Clipper hands down :)

[@avgjoeavglife]

L-1011 TriStar

[@Pwj579]

@6:26 Key point missing------ the majority of currently flying DC-3s are actually C-47s that were manufactured as troop transports during WWII for Allied Forces. While over 600 DC-3s were built between 1936-1941. Over 10,000 C-47s were built from 1941-1945. After the war thousands were bought up by as surplus by new and existing airlines.

[@AB-wf4gt]

Wow. It’s incredible how fast the technology advances! And how fast Matthew runs!

[@marioguerrero9527]

What a demonstration of how comprehensive the collection at the MOF is!

[@MrWayner2]

This is an amazing production! Both educational and entertaining! Keep up the great work!

[@museumofflight]

Thanks Wayne!

[@chipcurry]

Great job, you get the gold star for museum curation.

[@Flyby-1000]

FUN FACT... The 727 was indeed the fist airframe to have an APU...However... it was not originally designed to support an APU as the APU did not exist at the time of the of 727 production... The APU was a retrofit on the early models (the -100's). The only place they had any room to place the retrofit APU was in the main wheel well. That is why you see he APU air inlet on one wing and the APU exhaust outlet on the other...

[@byronharano2391]

Thank you for this tour 💗

[@museumofflight]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Idahoguy10157]

The British lessons learned from the investigation of the of the Comet were freely shared. Boeing and every manufacturer used these on all new aircraft.

[@EricIrl]

What improvements did Boeing make to their pressurised aircraft based on the problems with the Comet?

[@RaoulStankovitch]

Boeing had experience with airliner pressuring 20 years before the Comet. 1939 they introduced the B-307. World's 1st pressurized commercial airliner...I know because my Dad flew them!!! British engineers apparently didn't used what Boeing had learned, not the other way around.

[@EricIrl]

@@RaoulStankovitch Pretty much what I was getting at. There wasn't much that Boeing needed to learn from de Havilland's bad experience. Boeing, Lockheed and Douglas had all designed and flown pressurised airliners before de Havilland. Even the British compnay Vickers had pressurised aircraft flying before the Comet. As far as I know, Vickers, Boeing, Douglas or Lockheed never lost an airliner due to a structural breakup caused by the fuselage bursting open due to inadequate construction methods.

[@peterweinberg4504]

@@EricIrl Boeing added titanium tear stoppers to the skin as a result

[@EricIrl]

@@peterweinberg4504 Are you sure it was a result of the Comet problems. Boeing already had extensive experience with pressurised aircraft.

[@franosbornblaschke3694]

Matthew is a wonderful host!

[@burroaks7]

this really should have more views

[@theoldar]

I visited the museum in May of 2022. Highly recommended for any aviation enthusiast.

[@museumofflight]

Thanks for your recommendation!

[@ianmcgee9945]

It's great to see the Constellation looking so good. My Dad was a mechanic for Trans-Canada Airlines and probably worked on it when it was new!

[@museumofflight]

Wow! Thanks for sharing your dad's story. Connie has a place of honor in our Museum. She just got a nice pressure wash a few weeks ago, in fact.

[@lewiskemp5893]

My mom was a stewardess on the Connie for Eastern

[@jim5870]

I enjoyed that!

[@Andi845]

Great video!!!!!! Thanks!!!

[@TheMarcball]

Thanks for the inspiration and keep on trucking!

[@schmitty1944]

I smashed the like button..... you owe me a monitor. Seriously, Great video. Loved it!

[@bobbartlett1185]

Great episode

[@theymusthatetesla3186]

Very good presentation!!

[@richd8537]

If you had 30 extra seconds you could have added the 337 Stratocruiser! Great job Matthew!

[@amandajones7566]

The DC-10!

[@TheKaidynB]

Yes yes! My late great grandfather was a second officer on the DC-10 for many years

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Matthew Burchette: Doing ALL THAT RUNNING so we do not have to...😉

[@brentflora8965]

Loved your history under pressure 😅! There's 1 plane missing in the Boeing collection, or better yet 2! I didn't see the flying pencil (757) or the muscle plane (767)! When I bought a ticket to fly from Atlanta to Brasilia in the pencil, NON-STOP, is MY never to forget flight! 30 years earlier I took the same flight in Varig's 707, Brasilia to Miami, stopping for fuel in Caracas!

[@museumofflight]

Wow, that must have been quite an adventure!

[@crownlands7246]

Score: 10-10-10

[@flyonbyya]

Super Channel Super Guy !!!

[@fr6885]

Excellent job! Educational and fun. Lots of energy. Was it as much fun to make as it is to watch? I like to see a Making of this video.

[@museumofflight]

We did snag some behind-the-scenes footage (not much), so we'll find a way to share it.

[@brianloomis9351]

Interesting that you left out the Boeing 314

[@uuzd4s]

Went thru the Boeing Museum of Flight several times, when the "Glass" Museum first opened, when Brian Shul "officially" retired the SR-71 (I wish I's bought his autographed book "Sled Driver" for $75 bucks back then), and whenever something new was added. For me, the "Little Red Barn" has the most historical significance as that's where Boeing started. Gr8 Museum, if you get the chance, go see it!

[@walterpleyer261]

The Model 80 looks like the love child of a Fokker F.VII and an Antonov An 2

[@Vickyvee97]

I remember when you can walk through the Model 80 there.

[@trob0914]

Noticed this awhile ago, but when did Matt leave Colorado for WA. ? Glad to have him, as I live in the Seattl Metro...Your videos are always informative, thanks !!

[@TeargasHorse]

I would add the Ford Trimotor. Even though the Boeing 40 is there, wasn't the Ford in service first?

[@museumofflight]

That's a great addition to the list!

[@petersteirer5728]

Actually, except for Concorde, this is a BOEING Short History.

[@bernhardecklin7005]

Great as always, thank you so much! Little error where you state which aeroplane (Boeing 80) was the first to have been designed and built for passenger transport. The first worldwide built pax-aeroplane was the Junkers F-13.

[@GroundhogDay-]

Ideally both, L1-88 Electra and Ilyushin IL-18.

[@bretthoffman2128]

Maybe one on military cargo aircraft?

[@brentflora8965]

Why is there no Lockheed L188 Electra II in flight museums? A twin sister of her flew for the Airforce until recently, the Orion!

[@lewiskemp5893]

?????????

[@glorialotz3333]

And a TriStar. Not to mention Dc-6-7-8.

[@greggpeters5662]

Orion never flew in the Air Force, she was strictly a Navy bird.

[@roykliffen9674]

Boeing 80; looks like a Fokker VII-3m knock-off without the single wing.

[@HaddaClu]

Why do you have the Comet designated as a Boeing product in the "chapters" for the video? De Havilland Comet DH106 4C is the correct designation as Boeing never touched these planes, and you have the other manufacturers correctly listed for their planes.

[@bretthoffman2128]

Good job but a little Scant on the McDonnell Douglas, I.e. dc 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, md11, L1011? What happened there? Not a lot of interior shots, but you were on a time limit.

[@tiadaid]

The Museum of Flight doesn't have the other Douglas planes & the L-1011. They're only covering planes in their collection, obviously.

[@joseonastick155]

I was a Boeing South Carolina 787 Delivery tech.

[@michaelsteiger8509]

Little known… the 737-100 prototype has a cockpit in the cabin located just at the wing leading edge. That’s where glass cockpits were born and it’s the first fly by wire airliner. The control sticks in the aft cockpit evolved into FBY. Too cool

[@bobbartlett1185]

Dc-4?

[@robertlafnear7034]

I'll take that Boeing Model 40 for my collection😆...... It would be my first plane..... no wait......LOVE that 80A-1even better ! GREAT TOUR.

[@museumofflight]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@bossdaddy1919]

No mention of Airbus?

[@jpstripeit4447]

I've been to this museum and got more from watching this video. so much to see and never enough time. This video should have been almost a hour long.

[@museumofflight]

We could easily have made it that long, too! There's so much to talk about!

[@jpstripeit4447]

@@museumofflight Not everyone has the opportunity to visit your museum. personally, I think it would be very educational to make longer more Indepth video's on the fantastic aircraft you have.

[@Howrider65]

You still have no leg room in a 787. So what comfort are you talking about?? They jam people in that thing like tuna fish in a can.

[@garyshelly6555]

Without reading through all the comments, is it just me or should have Howard hughes's name did not get mentioned here

[@tomlathrop4094]

Not quite the entire history of airliners. Although there are several more you missed some important ones. DC8, DC9, Convair 880, DC10, L1011

[@museumofflight]

As Matthew said in the introduction to the video, this history only uses planes in our collection. Sounds like those would be great answers to our question, "what commercial airliners would you add to the collection?"

[@bierce716]

Good job! But how can one discuss the history of airliners without even mentioning the DC4/6/7 series?

[@museumofflight]

As Matthew said in the introduction to the video, this history only uses planed in our collection. Sounds like those would be great answers to our question, "what commercial airliners would you add to the collection?"

[@troybeason3517]

What, no 777, or 757?

[@troybeason3517]

Or, the impressive 767?

[@gilheuss7830]

A bit disappointing.no mention of the Pan Am Clippers. Nor some of the German "Civil" aircraft that ended up bombing London etc.

[@DrBlood-cq2cm]

Wat

[@Rembrant65]

Goofy. Awesome anyway.

[@cindybetten7573]

No merch available? I want your hat!!!

[@gnsaxton]

If a B-52 was configured as an airliner,how many passengers could it hold with in flight refueling on a round the world flight?

[@thomascooley2749]

So your 747 was the one that did the barrel roll

[@thomashowlett8295]

You're thinking about the original 707, back in 1955, flown by the legendary "Tex" Johnston.

[@thomascooley2749]

@@thomashowlett8295 yeah I tend to get all the Boeings mixed up lol

[@thomascooley2749]

@@thomashowlett8295 was the 747 the one they filled with batteries on the first flights to power back up controls or was that another Boeing lol

[@jwenting]

Very US centric. Skipping over the big European airliner manufacturers of the 1920s and 1930s that defined airliner development of the era, especially Fokker whose F.VII and F.VII-3M were the direct inspiration for Boeings Model 80 (and was license built in the US by Ford). It also completely misses Soviet aviation. And by stating the Concorde is the only airliner ever with afterburners it's not even telling the truth. The Tu-144 also had afterburners and served in passenger service (albeit very shortly) and ran regular mail runs for quite some time. Then again, you are the BOEING Museum of Flight, to use the full historical name of the museum 😉

[@turriddu6421]

The Tupolev 144 seemed so obviously "inspired" (let's stay non-offensive) by Concorde that it was nicknamed Concordoff or Concordski . Due to my old age, it happens that I was in Le Bourget Paris Airshow the day the Tu144 was doing a demonstration . The pilot tried to go up too hard, breaking the fuselage in two . All I could see was a big dark cloud of smoke above the city of Goussainville , where the planes missing their show use to crash ...

[@jwenting]

@@turriddu6421 it also predates Concorde by several years in its original concept. While it is highly possible that some "exchange of technology and ideas" through "less than legitimate means" took place, the similarities are most likely mostly because of the shape being a logical result of the design criteria. The US designs for a similar aircraft drafted around the time also featured the same shape and features.

[@tiadaid]

You do realize that the video is covering the planes in the Museum of Flight collection, right? That's why they didn't talk about other European airline manufacturers.

[@museumofflight]

As Matthew said in the intro, this is an overview using the aircraft in our collection. Feel free to deliver us some more European airliners so we can put them on display. The Museum of Flight is an independent non-profit and is not and has never been owned or operated by The Boeing Company.

[@jesuspp5157]

would have liked to see a lot less running

[@aviatorjoe4153]

Great overview. But, please tone down your personality, just a bit... 🙂

[@Pileits]

A rather childish presentation

[@markr.1984]

And even more childish reply!

[@nonovyerbusiness9517]

Curator is not funny.

[@michaelsteiger8509]

I like the black cockpit on the TCA L1049.. 70 years before airbus ever thought of black cockpit windows….. which are useless anyway. We don’t have black hoods on our cars for glare..