Pan Am 747 Flight 454 MIA-JFK

[@freddy1571]

I remember back in 1973 as a 11 yo we flew to the US on a 707. Then on our return back home we were on a 747 ,and i was in awe of the size inside and out .We were seated right in front of the famous spiral staircase leading up to first class. Then the word got around that Johnny Carson was upstairs in first class and i begged the air hostess if she can get me his autograph,and she was so nice and came back with a yellow slip with his signature on it. That was something that stays with me.

[@JokeriPokeri17]

6:49 Breathtaking moment, Pan Am 747 and British Airways Concorde together!

[@ryanwiler4808]

The fact that Concorde just strolled through like it was nobody's business...

[@Ashfaq1999]

Two great aircraft for their time.

[@lizzard71]

6:49

[@mtaylor3771]

Concorde wasn't profitable for airlines until the late 1980's. The 747 was a great success from the start.

[@747heavyboeing3]

​@@mtaylor3771747 will outlast the Airbus A 380 as well.

[@--KP-]

I literally gasped. I miss growing up around JFK seeing 747s and Concorde all the time, like it was no big deal.

[@TomP115]

Wow, thanks for uploading. PanAm MIA-JFK was my first flight ever on a 747, back in 1988. I remember a pretty bumpy takeoff, several overhead bins opened up and my mom got hit on the head with an item falling out...

[@747heavyboeing3]

Pan Am introduced the billboard livery in 1984.

[@mordechai_ben_gershon]

Beautiful PAA & the beautiful Queen of the Skies (: Not much flight deck automation in the eighties and second officer (flight engineer) still existed! Thanks for the doco xo.

[@depilot2035]

damn, he finally came back after 3 years

[@FitzArias]

Beautiful to see the sights and hear the sounds of yesterdays aviation. RIP PA, RIP Concorde.

[@jumboJetPilot]

I’ve been the captain of Boeing 747 flights between Miami and JFK before. But my flights are usually a whole lot longer than that!

[@777jones]

JFK-MDE-MIA

[@jumboJetPilot]

@@777jones I’ve been to MDE quite a few times.

[@HorseloverFat-ss3ff]

I believe Pan Am took delivery of about eighty 747s in 1970. I flew one of the first services in April age seven. My Dad had been an executive with BOAC / Bahamas Airways and we continued by Pan Am 707 down to Nassau for a holiday with friends. He was then with BUA / British Caledonian (Chief finance director at age 33). I remember getting served my first prawn cocktail which was delicious and being given square Pan Am childrens books about Brer Rabbit and such-like. We went up the stairs to look at the first class section and the cockpit at the end of the flight. Wonderful parents who seized opportunities like that and wonderful days altogether.

[@speedbird7471]

What a great insight. Looks like the captain was in a rush. He started setting the takeoff power before they finished the checklist then backed it off.

[@airman329]

Dad flew the 747 for PanAm and what a shame that Airline is not around anymore!

[@jumboJetPilot]

I’m a 747 pilot myself. One of my old squadron commanders was a Pan Am guy. I’ll bet they knew each other!

[@Greg073]

The leg room. My god….the leg room.

[@leeolahepher9245]

Loved every moment of this.

[@derrickwillie4449]

The 70’s weren’t that great but for the aviation industry it was the golden years

[@kevi747]

Good point. Never thought of it that way. 😳🤷‍♂️👍

[@mtaylor3771]

The 70's were great!

[@Great-Documentaries]

@@mtaylor3771 No, they really weren't.

[@LJDRVR]

Bwahahaha. No. Smoking in the cockpit, no CRM, horribly high accident rates. Inept management and corporate raiders. Carl Ichan. Frank Lorenzo. Dick Ferris. Strikes, bankruptcies, mergers. No thanks!

[@abbasrizvi9389]

This is late 80s.

[@chrisco747]

Great video; I sure miss Pan Am and its fleet of 747’s

[@evertgr]

I really like this video. Thank you for posting!!

[@american101]

This was so cool to watch!

[@747heavyboeing3]

Two great airplanes. Concorde was only supersonic airliner with afterburner.

[@stevenwolff6866]

I only flew Pan Am once, a new A300 from LAX to MIA. I flew TWA a lot more because they had a domestic network but I miss both airlines terribly along with the passenger civility you see on this video which was the norm back then unlike today

[@francescopittaluga9962]

Hi, Steven, I totally agreed with You about "passenger civility"...and Crew perhaps! Now airplanes are like big buses with people poorly dressed and often rude!...And, like You, I miss airlines like Pan Am, TWA and my Alitalia...All buried by bad management! Many thanks! Francesco Pittaluga from Genoa, Italy, chief purser in AZ from 1979 to 2009

[@stevenwolff6866]

@@francescopittaluga9962 Hey Francesco I lived in Arizona during the entire 1980s. If you were the chief purser on TWA aircraft out of Sky Harbor during that time chances are you may have been working one of my flights!

[@Anyone553]

I miss PanAm😢❤

[@arnaldocerra7218]

I remember that viewing deck above concourse E at Miami. Used to hangout there as a teen avgeek.

[@atomsmash100]

Great video! I was surprised to see a PA 737-200 in this video. I thought they only saw service on the IGS.

[@sparkingwave]

They were sometimes shuffled in to fly US domestic routes.

[@pramitmitra]

The times when PanAm ruled the skies…

[@Clipper1094]

They hardly ruled the skies in 1987. They were a shell of themselves hanging on by a thread. The company was being sold for parts and the pilot group that went to United a few years prior with the Pacific routes sale were the lucky ones.

[@user-GazarooGuy]

and now it's Emirates 🙄

[@tasaab]

Ah, my childhood, nice big 747 on a short haul flight, 1/2 full if lucky. Those were the days, what do we have now? Single aisle coast to coast and to Europe, ghad zooks.

[@scubanplz]

Transcon narrowbody is Chinese water torture

[@SyriusStarMultimedia]

Flying Pan Am was so much fun.

[@evomink]

The thought of operating a 747 between MIA and JFK, even 5 years ago when they were still flying, seems insane! I assume they simply had less daily flights? The passenger volume couldn’t be more than it is today…

[@tjr-007tt]

Back in those days they actually served a full meal on short flights like this. Things have changed so much.

[@sanitman1488]

R.E.G. Davies “The Worlds Greatest Airline”

[@DennisTISAC]

Clipper Black Sea was one of the 3 747 which we overhauled in 1989 and 5 yrs later were turned into scrap st Evergreen in Marana AZ

[@DennisTISAC]

Sparking Wave was also one of them.

[@DennisTISAC]

N748PA Black Sea

[@jimrestaino7763]

Clipper Black Sea was N 743 PA. N 748 PA was Clipper Crest Of The Wave. Sparking Wave was N 741 PA. All named after Clipper Ships. All delivered to the airline from Feb 28 to Mar 31 1970 , three of the original 25 747-121 and all but few that were converted to side door cargo carriers by the US Air Force for emergency use like Desert Storm escaped the scrappers.😢

[@detlefb.8371]

Nothing related to commercial air travel would exist (including ATC) if not for Pan Am. 🤯

[@budipratomo6391]

Nice pan am

[@user-zz88zz]

I'm a fan of PAN AM in the laid-back days, but with the 747-8i again. I want to see the majesty of PAN AM at International Airport... / (^^) 私は　のんびりとしていた時代のPAN AMファンですが　７４７ー８iで　もう一度 International Airportで　PAN AMの雄姿を観てみたいです… /(^^)

[@ryankenyon5010]

...and flying 747s MIA-JFK is one of many reasons Pan Am is no longer with us.

[@chrislucas1062]

Not really. You can gain a lot selling out a full 747 with very little fuel. Money maker back then

[@scubanplz]

In winter, AA flies a 777 MIA-JFK daily

[@ilovetheboeing747]

I’m a big fan

[@timbell285]

They footage is from a different plane at takeoff than when it was at the gate

[@jimmyedwards1639]

I wonder if the flight came into MIA from somewhere in the Caribbean or South America since it’s a 747

[@JamesSnell-rc5xt]

Probably just par for the course back then. At the time, domestic widebody service between major cities was a regular occurrence.

[@maurolima7135]

I thought that pan am was only international flights

[@stuartlee6622]

After the merger with National.

[@InFltSvc]

Today they cram you in a Emb 175 and tell you to shut up and sit down and you get nothing

[@Noaddedsalt01]

To be fair the e175 is a surprisingly comfortable plane for its size. It’s amazing just how quiet it is.

[@jakeoesterreich8037]

E175 is the nicest regional yet you clearly haven’t been on a CRJ-200 or E145

[@Colorado_Ronin]

For a whole lot less money

[@Noaddedsalt01]

@@jakeoesterreich8037 those aircraft would NEVER fly that route or a route that long. Also the CRJ-200 is a modified business jet that has a raised floor on it to allow pax seating. Which is why its so cramped

[@MrLaCubanisima]

Great clip! This seems like its a clip from a pbs documentary. Any idea which one? Would like to see it in its entirety. Thanks

[@captainvordermann5841]

Einer der besten Fluggesellschaften ja schade dass sie gescheitert ist an diesem Unglück. Ich bin auch schon damit geflogen das war noch Zeiten die sieben und sieben schönsten Zeiten der siebziger und achtziger Jahre absoluter Service. Wir wussten wie es geht die ganze Prominenz aus aller Welt Flug mit der Fluggesellschaft dass das ist sie nicht mehr gibt

[@AndreiTupolev]

Crikey, was there enough demand to warrant a 747? Wouldn't a 727 have done? (With in-flight movie as well! 😀)

[@westhavenor9513]

When folks were civil and the women had big hair!

[@cherifbar]

When men were men.

[@robertcarlson4666]

I suppose you got buttbanged back in the day😅😅

[@westhavenor9513]

Whatever floats your boat is fine by me

[@PunaSquirrel]

😆​@@westhavenor9513

[@DrewTubeDrew]

That flight Engineer has way too many responsibilities. Just shut up bro and let the pilots fly the plane. Go check the damn bathroom lights or something on your own panel.

[@GringoLatino941]

I Flew JFK-MIA on pan am. One time. But after they “came back” per se Before they “went under”. My father and son flew pan am LAX-JFK.

[@HorseloverFat-ss3ff]

This is reminding me how beautiful American women were back in the eighties. As a seventeen year old spending time in Washington airport for a connection I remember how unbelievably sexy the waitresses in the airport restaurant were. Slim figures, big hair......what the hell happened???