Quad jets rule! I flew on a DC-8 from London to Los Angeles in 1979. I used to love going to airports as a kid to watch the planes. So much variety then compared to the indistinguishable Boeing and Airbus twin jets of today.
@Ben-xe8ps3 жыл бұрын
Which airline was using DC8's on the London - Los Angeles route in 1979?
@MrAlwaysBlue3 жыл бұрын
@@Ben-xe8ps It was World Airways. I think it was charter. The flight was via Maine.
@frostyfrost40942 жыл бұрын
Capitol/Saturn / Pan Am/ TIA / Overseas National have been seen at LHR/LGW but no idea where they were going to hope this helps
@chrisnizer18855 жыл бұрын
Wow, classics galore! Caravelle's (with a parachute!), Comet's (enormous flaps), a CV-990 Coronado, and numerous DC-8's and 707's. Love all those turbojet engines with daisy petal exhaust stacks and ejector rings too. This is a homerun for classic jetliner fans, thanks!
@cobra6953 Жыл бұрын
Wow I’m in aircraft heaven! All these classics look and so much better than modern aircraft! I now have the perfect soundtrack to go to sleep! Thank you very much!
@TheFlanker4882 жыл бұрын
That air India Boeing 707 😍😍😍😍 My grandpa was in tears watching this
@alexpaar27083 жыл бұрын
Best ever jets moments , that feeling will never be replace again, golden age 👍
@tommyd52384 жыл бұрын
What a change to see aircraft that don`t all look the same, especially in good quality film
@alix18723 жыл бұрын
Incredible invaluable golden piece of a bygone era of commercial aviation, thumbs up.
@cryoman946 жыл бұрын
De Havilland Comet is an absolute beauty!
@TOXOTIS633 жыл бұрын
And a sure killer! 😉
@mijalakis33 жыл бұрын
Indeed and also the square windows ones are also an absolute hazard
@orvilleh.larson75812 жыл бұрын
The improved Comet 4 was a fine airplane. Unfortunately, it never got the wide commercial acceptance of the American-built Boeing and Douglas jetliners. . . .
@Paul-Nicer583 ай бұрын
@@TOXOTIS63 *UPDATE* *_It's interesting that some of the aircraft on the list should really have been noticeably safer than the Comet due to being a similar type but of much later design & manufacture._* *_Fryed Ryce Muncherz krappenz kharzeestan DikterBummer etc shud note deferentially with huge gr8 awe much respect please too._* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% All Comets, including some Comet 1s, had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954, civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped. Examples were flying until 1997 - one example did a signals research global circumnavigation flight series in 1993 via Australia virtually without a rest travelling 28000 miles, only had an ice warning indicator issue during the flights. *The DH Comet - World Firsts.* 1st gas turbine jet powered airliner. 1st high altitude 8psi pressurised full fuselage length passenger cabin airliner, not a trivial feature as structure strength required for pressurisation considerably exceeded strength required for normal flying stress. Nobody else had done anything similar before the Comet. The b-47 used 2 relatively small, heavily built pressurised modules (the aircraft where 6 had their wings fold up in 2 months while flying & some had their wings fall off while parked). The 1937 Boeing piston engined airliner pressurised passenger cabin was pressurised to 2 psi only - in fact that could easily be done as the normal unpressurized fuselage cabin structure strength for flying stresses only was all that was needed to be adequate so no significant weight increase issues needed addressing. 1st all hydraulically powered flying surface controls & actuators airliner with under carriage wheel disk brakes + ABS. 1st jet airliner to cross the Atlantic. 1st jet aircraft to do a world circumnavigation flights series. *Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft including thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland & we know the world's first all metal construction airframe airliner was built in England in the 1920s by Handley Page.* *_De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, no evidence of negligence ever being produced in relation to the DH Comet._*
@haraldgeiger7769 Жыл бұрын
thank you very much, so fascinating. 🙇
@alonsolemos71134 жыл бұрын
Panair Brasil with a DC8!!!! Amazing!
@royalanania33063 жыл бұрын
Thank you 😊💞 this was very enjoyable. I went back with my father to planes spot. In the 60s
@royalanania33063 жыл бұрын
Tg Caring Coronado,as the Caravelle are both very elegant and Beautiful 😉 airplanes
@kinclair1939 Жыл бұрын
What wonderful footage of these classic jet airliners. So sad that those days are now long gone. Thank goodness for archive film like this to keep the memories alive - thank you for posting.
@megatop4125 жыл бұрын
OMG that MEA Comet landing.....delicious
@Doogydoog2 жыл бұрын
Great footage. I could watch these old birds for hours. Thanks!
@robm30743 жыл бұрын
I thoroughly enjoyed this clip
@faezadawood2 жыл бұрын
*4:29**---**4:32** PIA Boeing 720B!* On January 2, 1962, Pakistan International Airlines′ first Boeing 720B - a Boeing 720-040B (registration AP-AMG) _piloted by _*_Captain Abdullah Baig_*_ and _*_copilot_*_ Captain Taimur Baig_ - set a *"WORLD RECORD"* during the *_London-to-Karachi leg_* of its delivery flight to Pakistan for speed over a commercial air route, making the flight in 6 hours 43 minutes 55 seconds at an average speed of 938.78 km/h (583.33 mph). Beautiful clip dear *Lyubomir Ganchev!* Far-reaching effects of GOLDEN memories even after 62-years! *_Golden era of PIA's world-class repo...from 60s thru early 90s!_* Keep it up DEAR! [RUH, KHI PAK]
@TresmiradasAr-media2 жыл бұрын
Amazing sound and footage!! Was lovely to see the Comet and the Caravelle! Thank you!
@mrpeel32395 жыл бұрын
THE best vintage aviation montage EVER! Amazing productions values: feels and sounds like we are airside in 2018.
@lyub4o695 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@ibnrawandi27133 жыл бұрын
I was thrilled to see Cairo Airport, exactly how I remember it. I flew on the comet 4c several times. Thank you for sharing this piece of brilliant history
@jimfowler59305 жыл бұрын
Nice.....the opening landing of the United DC-8...anyone notice the USAF MATS C-124 Globemaster taxing in the background?! What memories...thank you.
@elainefrantz91395 жыл бұрын
Jim Fowler UAL DC8 the best...well Pam Am came in at a close 2nd!
@supersabrejet5 жыл бұрын
When flying was MANMADE, great noisy early warriors of the sky, not like the computers with wings we have today!!
@aq67375 жыл бұрын
I love those Pan American DC 8's!
@alexeybezobrazov450810 ай бұрын
What a video! Thank you!!++
@royalanania3306 Жыл бұрын
The De Havilland was a elegant , majestic jet.
@lonefather6 жыл бұрын
The sight of the Philippine Airline landing at Kai Tak was spectacularand breathtaking.
@gramirez724 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I was trying to figure out what airport that was. So hard to recognize from this era. And, yes, it was spectacular! I wonder what movie it was taken from.
@oscarl-b88705 жыл бұрын
Those are some very fast & loud landings!
@binaway5 жыл бұрын
A time when a small bus still took the passengers to the aircraft. In1965 and 9yo we flew in 707 London->Zurich->Damascus->New Delhi>-Singapore->Darwin->Sydney and then a Viscount to Melbourne. 36hours London->Sydney and vomited all the way followed by a broken seat on the fully loaded viscount with no empty seats available.
@royalanania33063 жыл бұрын
They were beautiful ❤️,and noisy as hell. Strait jet ,and the Caravelle nothing short of a French model.
@AndreiTupolev6 ай бұрын
Very interesting, United DC-8 landing at the beginning with a C-124 Globe master in the background
@user-tn4en6xf9e Жыл бұрын
Golden era of a Civil aviation....
@carlhaluss3 жыл бұрын
How did I miss this before!? Absolutely riveting footage. I especially love the Comet footage! Well Done! and Thank You!
@royalanania3306 Жыл бұрын
The Caravelle as well,but PanAm were very handsome lookers
@mtvjackass744 жыл бұрын
Rough landings back then......
@royalanania33063 жыл бұрын
The Convairs were very elegant,and still the fastest.
@bobsmith83685 жыл бұрын
Love the sound of those old turbojets.
@elainefrantz91395 жыл бұрын
Bob Smith Yay, TWA!
@melvyncox33615 жыл бұрын
Great film!DC-8 for me,and of course,the VC10!❤😎👍
@radio-su6lh2 жыл бұрын
Wow the flaps on that Comet landing were enormous!
@bigglesflysagain17496 жыл бұрын
Caravel used the nose design of the COMET for their great "little" aircraft. Flew on one in France in 1967 !
@ianstewartorr84555 жыл бұрын
I allways thought it looked like a comet from the front
@matthewrkeiser3 жыл бұрын
United flew a handful of the Caravelles which I traveled on once from DCA to Chicago (probably). It puzzled me at first expecting a DC-9 but with the verticals on the wing.
@stevebennet65395 жыл бұрын
Those Convair 880/990's meant business: Fast, Loud & Thirsty.
@dansotelo2283 жыл бұрын
I think 1962 my mom booked a flight from El Paso Texas to LA. As we were going thru terminal to our gate/ plane I was hoping it was a jet. I did not know at that time but there were a lot of Connies and one jet on the tarmack. I was shocked to board the one jet, which I now regret. Sure I was on cloud 9 at the time, but later regretted not flying on the constilation.
@orvilleh.larson75812 жыл бұрын
Yes, the Lockheed Constellation. One of the most beautiful planes ever built, with its triple tail and sharklike fuselage. An iconic airliner.
@robyoungquist58035 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this posting. I’m old enough to remember each and every aircraft type filmed from the Vickers Viscount to the DC-8-62. The only one I haven’t flown on was the Comet. My favorite/s will always be the B-707 and the DC-8. That said, I can still remember the sensation of the CV-990 on takeoff. It was like being in a rocket!
@davidharris25195 жыл бұрын
none of the 8s were a 62 series 1 clue is the engines
@robyoungquist58035 жыл бұрын
David Harris ... were they 61s? All I remember is flying on Delta DC-8s ORD/FLL and ORD/TPA. And of course ORD/ARN to see my Swedish Marmor & Farfar (Grandparents). It really doesn’t matter to this 65 year old. This video brought back happy memories for me. 👍
@davidharris25195 жыл бұрын
look like below 50 series early 8s but still great the 61-62-63 were newer and the 61 and 63s were stretched
@lrg38343 жыл бұрын
Another gem. Great Stuff! Thanks for sharing!!
@JoeyLovesTrains4 жыл бұрын
Imagine you’ve never seen a jet airplane irl before and the first plane you see is a Comet. Just think how crazy that would look to someone used to a DC-3
@cherifbar5 жыл бұрын
PURE GOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@bigglesflysagain17496 жыл бұрын
At the very beginning, lumbering in from the left, a Douglas Globemaster...cool !
@gramirez724 жыл бұрын
Wonderful compilation! Philippine Air Lines @ 0:32-0:41 at Hong Kong. Wow! I wonder what movie that was from.
@andrewunjo1586 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this great video 1000x thank you!
@Sam26LE5 жыл бұрын
Excellent nostalgia !
@shaunwakefield97935 жыл бұрын
Amazing footage, takes me back to my teens at Heathrow. The M.E.A Comet what a sound when Britain made her own aircraft.
@PeterNGloor4 жыл бұрын
I think some of the sounds were taken off Viscount planes.
@alvexok55233 жыл бұрын
@@PeterNGloor 707s were louder than the aircrafts that followed a while later such as 727s, MD80s, DC9s, 737s, etc. I remember noticing that back in the early 1980s that the 707s had louder engines, and so did the VC10 with the double engines on both sides of rear of aircraft. I guess they were louder because their engines were older models. Less fuel efficient too? Was that part of reason why airports had such strong smells of jet fuel in the late 1970s? (which I remember also)
@shirazbangash22153 жыл бұрын
Luvly
@michaelveis8937 Жыл бұрын
The airplanes were, 707, 720, DC-8, Aerospatiale Caravelle, DeHavilland Comet 4, Convair 880 and the Convair 990 Coronado.
@luisfernandochristofoletti70774 жыл бұрын
0:10...C-124 Globemaster on taxi!!!
@peterpv5923 жыл бұрын
woohoo love those
@chegeny5 жыл бұрын
Douglas C-124 Globemaster II sleazing around in the background at the beginning of this video. MATS livery too.
@scottstingshark98852 жыл бұрын
Epic!
@SalisburyPlainAviation6 жыл бұрын
First gen jetliners were so interesting, unlike the computer-designed modern twins we see these days.
@robertpolnicky32622 жыл бұрын
I think the designers had more of an eye for looks back then. And it wasnt all about profit margins. Life was actually exciting back then.
@orvilleh.larson75812 жыл бұрын
@@robertpolnicky3262 Yeah, and you can say the same thing about cars, too! Remember the early '60s Lincoln Continentals? The early '60s Ford Thunderbirds? The nostalgia is killing me! . . .
@arthurasm12574 жыл бұрын
Varig and Panair do Brasil!!
@nishanisha-uf8rd5 жыл бұрын
What a great video in 1960's ..thanks
@lyub4o695 жыл бұрын
You're welcome! Glad you like it!
@nishanisha-uf8rd5 жыл бұрын
@@lyub4o69 thanks
@LTMCMedia3 жыл бұрын
Those Comets tho
@1worlds1003 жыл бұрын
These are real pilots ,nice upload
@StevieWonder7375 жыл бұрын
Ridden on nearly all of those ... Caravelle, Vickers Viscount and Vanguard (turboprops) and VC10, Trident, Electra (okay another turboprop), DC8, 707, 720, Comet 2B and 3C, BAC 111, Convair 880 and 990 as well as the early DC9-10s and Boeing 737-100s. Favorite? Vickers VC-10. So awesomely quiet in the cabin. Oddballs? Carvair DC-4, Britain Norman TriLander (okay, NOT jets)
@frostyfrost40942 жыл бұрын
Those VC10s were built a Brooklands now a museum blooooody short runway for a VC10
@Honest300Al5 жыл бұрын
Very cool stuff. Just popped up on my suggested viewing list. I used to fly on the 880s and 990s from SFO to DAL in the 60's. Great airplanes and they went faster than todays jets.
@PeterNGloor4 жыл бұрын
flight speed is secondary nowadays what with the hours of standing in line for security control and check-in.
@floriansteinmann45592 жыл бұрын
👍👍das wahren noch zeiten
@eliasjlima3 жыл бұрын
Que preciosidade esse vídeo, em pleno 01/02/21 a gente contemplando essas máquinas do passado que fizeram história, e ainda por cima duas cias brasileiras Varig e Panair e cair o queixo parabéns pela postagem uma relíquia dessa tem ser compartilhada.
@frostyfrost40942 жыл бұрын
Varig Convair 990 ?
@eliasjlima7 ай бұрын
Sim, Convair 990
@waya23784 жыл бұрын
Panair do Brasil 💚💛
@markalbrecht2625 жыл бұрын
Great work, Lyubomir. Let's have some more!
@rwy32r5 жыл бұрын
Panair do Brasil DC-8 is from french movie "L'homme de Rio" with Jean Paul Belmondo and Françoise Dorleac (elder sister of Catherine Deneuve, died at 25 in 1967).
@xenon93445 жыл бұрын
Wow a Philippines airline...i miss this plane....what a gold memory
@mcdonnell2206 жыл бұрын
Amazing Lyubomir, thanks!
@lyub4o696 жыл бұрын
Glad you like it! :)
@user-gp5es3qv2z3 жыл бұрын
WE SAW AN AIR PLANE OF EL AL THE FIRST FLIGHT OF EL AL TO CAIRO WAS ON 1979
@Fastbikkel5 ай бұрын
At least i'm happy i lived to see many of these planes during their active duty. Nowadays the variety is much less.
@daveth1218646 жыл бұрын
Those Caravelles are so cool.
@dominiqueroudier94016 жыл бұрын
Fantastic 👍✌
@rgr53405 жыл бұрын
Olha a Varig e Panair representando o Brasil
@erikbarbosa42354 жыл бұрын
Varig ☺ Panair do Brazil
@infidel67283 жыл бұрын
Interesting airplanes. These days even I, who has 50 years of spotting experience, has difficulty telling the difference until the airplane is within a few hundred meters.
@mrsimp24104 жыл бұрын
Sir I don’t know who u r but I can tell one thing ur a legend thx I love this much love from japan 🇯🇵
@benzjiman69313 жыл бұрын
Remember that most of these planes are from the 40/50’s, but they look like something from the 2000’s. Just amazing how aviation has changed in this range of time
@Ben-xe8ps3 жыл бұрын
Incorrect. These pictures are from the 1960's
@benzjiman69313 жыл бұрын
@@Ben-xe8ps i mean the airplanes, not the year it was taken! :)
@cupcakefairy873 жыл бұрын
That footage of the United Airlines DC-8 at the beginning of this video was used in the 1961 Elvis Presley film 'Blue Hawaii'.
@captbrakeset76303 жыл бұрын
Brilliant footage. More views of the Comet here than I've seen, but must remark that its landing attitude was unexpected. Actually, a number of bouncy landings - probably by first officers.
@jaafarzaidi33904 жыл бұрын
So I guess soft landings weren't a thing back then eh? Lol so many bounced once or twice on the runway.....
@vladanr746 жыл бұрын
Fantastic clip.
@lyub4o696 жыл бұрын
Glad you like it!
@daviedmond46396 жыл бұрын
Comet shots are a rare find, those flaps extended are a site
@arthurasm12575 жыл бұрын
Oh my God, Varig and Panair do Brasil!!!!
@luisfernandochristofoletti70774 жыл бұрын
A Varig foi até os dias de hoje, a única empresa no mundo a operar os quadrirreatores das 3 grandes fabricantes ao mesmo tempo! 707, DC-8 e Convair 990 Coronado!
@nagano85186 жыл бұрын
The Varig's Coronado was taken from a movie? It´s very rare to see Varig's Convair 990 films.
@andrewwilkey61954 жыл бұрын
I’m pretty sure these are all movie clips
@Southwestspotter78794 жыл бұрын
0:42 That hurts my ears! This clip's Pan Am 707's engines were even louder than the original film.
@robinboucherwonderfulflight Жыл бұрын
I was a kid on the ramp at JFK, listening to Pan Am 707's and of course other aircraft. That's Jet music!
@johannesbols574 жыл бұрын
Must've been a badge of honour to bounce the wheels once before final touchdown, eh? I landed at SFO on June 30, 1982 in a Hughes Airwest 727. Now, this once didn't bounce, as much as I think it owed money to the gate agents and was short of funds. It did NOT want to stay on the ground.
@s6xer3 жыл бұрын
MEA ❤
@andrewganley90165 жыл бұрын
Back in the days when World aviation was the Kellogg Variety pack! and when the UK had a aircraft industry the Caravelles were beautiful really miss those classic livery's too,(PanAm,TWA) the first PanAm was a taken from 'DrNo'
@alix18723 жыл бұрын
If there any with propliners would love to see and hear a Bristol Britannia and a Breguet Deux Points.
@MrEhmedxlambda19042 жыл бұрын
0:24 i know this is kai tak airport what are amazing looking
@user-lw9eq6or9w5 жыл бұрын
I saw the old Hong Kong airport Kai Tak airport.
@raylsistemlerbir67635 жыл бұрын
Süper.
@jimnaylor6009 Жыл бұрын
Never realised Caravelles used a drogue parachute, not sure if it was all variants?. I did fly on them as a boy, with Iberia and maybe Aviaco too.
@Fazendafazendao4 жыл бұрын
Panair do Brasil, the best!
@Cl4rendon Жыл бұрын
0:43 Hahahaha did they overdub the sound of the landing Pan Am 707 with a passing Diesel truck?
@ahuehuete47035 жыл бұрын
Was it me, or did that DC-8 that took off not rotate?
@GopherBaroque614 жыл бұрын
If you're referring to the one at 4:32, then yes, it did (by approximately 6 inches).