Not a single mosquito has been seen around the airport from that day forward.

I didn't know the Convair 990 was powered by coal

Back in the 1960s, I was visiting Atlanta and was on the airport's observation deck watching all the jets and piston-engined airliners, etc. Wow, watching Delta's Convair 880's takeoff was an incredible experience....fast, loud, and very smokey good!! Folks, that's what REAL jets sounded and looked like back in the good 'ol days! Great video of the 990!

Those Convair Jetliners were/are some of the most beautiful planes ever produced! Thank you for the great take-off...it was spectacular! ✈🥰

2023: That Was Wonderful! I do miss those days. My favourite passenger plane. Thank You & Best Regards

The Captain's turned off the smoking light.

For many of us, the sound, the smell and the (four) dense trails for bread and butter. Though, very happy this is history and present day airliners are much less noisy and polluting.

I’ve seen 707 takeoffs which are notably very smokey.. but the 990 here takes the crown by far🤣

Ahh I love the smell of jet smoke in the morning. This was back in the good old days of the early jet age. The late 50’s to early 1960’s. Back then it wasn’t a concern that your jet engine burned tons of fuel, spewed thick black smoke, and brutal noise levels the entire trip from city to city and country to country . But still the con air 880&990 were sleek, fast, luxurious airliners that fell in between the pages when comes to the success of their contemporaries. The 707, dc-8, and eventually the 727, 737, dc-9 etc. only 65 880’s were made and only 37 990’s doesn’t make sense but I guess they were over shadowed by bigger companies.

I remember how unbelievably loud those old “ straight pipe “ engines were! We had a 880 doing touch and gos at DTW back in the day. Even indoors you had to cease conversation as it flew over.

As a boy I used to love watching the old jets taking off you could follow them for miles with the smoke trail

Damn I’ve never heard such a sound from a subsonic plane before 🔥🔥

The airport becomes IFR after each of these take offs...

Glorious.... from a better, vanished time...

Gotta love those GE CJ805-23 engines!

When I was a kid in the 1970s..my family would go on Sundays to Miami airport to see the panes...you could park by the runway at perimeter road. Suddenly, Modern air Convair 990 taxied to the runway....as it began rolling down the runway, it was obviously much more smoky than any other jetliner even back then. I became very worried because I seriously thought he was in trouble.....I thought he was on fire....those who knew better were laughing at my concern.....as the jetliner climbed out and flew normally...I said, " thank God he is ok" now I know all the smoke was perfectly normal for a Convair 990..... however, I can imagine that those who didn't know better must have had a similar reaction to mine when these jetliners were active. I admit, these early jetliners were much more exciting to see than today's eco friendly and be quiet Jetliners...they all seem to look the same with their large two engines....

TWA flew Convair 880's out of Phoenix to Kansas City until the 1970's. I could hear them take off and see the smoke exhaust from my home in southwest Mesa Az.

I was never on a CV-990 but I do remember seeing them on approach to Denver's Stapleton Airport. They were being operated by Denver Ports of Call. These were the fastest airliners of their time. Loud to be sure but they were something to see and hear.

Unbelievable isn’t it vs today, imagine living near the airport!

Convair 880: I smoke a lot Bigger brother: hold my smoke

I worked in Bisho in the 80s and my wife (a Xhosa lady) trained as an air hostess on that exact same plane as well as time at the SAA HQ in Johannesburg. The airline never took off ... yes the plane did, but the airline didn't 😁

This is an amazing rare footage of the 990 take-off. The General Electric CJ-805 turbojets do smoke quite a bit making these very uneconomical engines. They did burn quite a lot of fuel to say the least. It was amazing how the airplane would leave really long trails of smoke for miles. These were great airplane watching times!!!!

The SMOKE OBSCURING THE AIRCRAFT AS IT THROTTLED DOWN THE RUNWAY! The rotation! The airframe emerges from the smoke! More smoke! If this doesn't bring a tear of JP-6 to the eye of an av-geek, nothing will. I flew on a Delta Airlines CV-880 as an unaccompanied minor in July 1970 Houston Hobby to LGA when my Eastern Airlines flight went tech. As an eleven year old, I think I had to fly First Class. My two memories are looking back at economy and its 3x2 seating, and the meal: Filet Mignon on plates that were so heavy! I've no memory of the take off or anything else, really. I consider it a stroke of luck out of the blue to have flown on one of these babies.

So noisy that is the classic old engines of Convair 990!

Ouaoh, what a sound, what a sight! Back when civil aviation was just as exciting and dramatic as military aviation.

Thank you so much for uploading this amazing footage! Do you have anymore wonderful footage of the convair?

This is a beautiful sight!

Thats the sound of A REAL AIRPLANE!!! ✈️

I was fortunate to have been able to visit the island while on liberty in the USN. Recall going to a very nice hotel for lunch.

If this jet (or her sister the 880) were flying today people would probably think all 4 engines were on fire. Videos of this great bird are almost impossible to find. Thanks for sharing. 👍✈

Definitely not approved by Greta Thunberg

Esse ronco é sinfonia. Tempos bons.

I can smell the exhaust from here! Maybe it's me, but I'm sure I heard a couple of environmentalists expire just as rotation occurred. ;`]

Looks like N8357C.I worked on that 990 in El Paso Texas.............

Those engines were the precursor to modern day turbo fans, it had a fan at the back of the engine, where as nowadays they're out in the front.

The Convair 990 Coronado is one of the best (and faster) aircrafts ever builded in the world. The only one bad thing is that its 4 engines smoke like old and unmaintained Diesel engines. Even so, it was an exceptional plane. It's a shame that the Coronado no longer cross the skies... it could have benefited from current technological advances and be renewed.

Lindo demais!

Fantastic aircraft, fantastic sound, what aircraft incredible. Perfect video, friend!

Looks like the CJ's never got the low smoke kit retrofit.

Good video, great takeoff.

when one engine is enough to power a fighter jet, but you decide you need four for commercial plane...😂

Ship 24, formerly "Flagship Rita" for Northeast. She transited through MIA on her way to Ciskei; wish I was at the airport that day! I got to tour the interior while she was parked in ELP in 1992. So sad that she was later broken up there in 2010.

Fast, loud and smokey. I miss those days...😜✈️

3/4 tank in air 1/4 tank in thrust. Beautiful airliner

Look at that smoke... I love it!

Looks like only about 75% of fuel was burned, the rest comes out as unburnt black soot. Guess jet fuel was like a nickel a gallon when GE designed this engine.

The field just went IFR

The last of the smokers part of the golden age of jet travel a by gone era

What's that black stuff it leaves behind? Grass fertilizer for the field vegetation?

Brilliant proper airliner flown by real pilots.

Awesome !!!

Back in the day, soon as you got some altitude after TO on a clear calm morning at any busy airport, you could see the black smoke hugging the ground all 360 degrees.

Amaizing classic footage other subscribers 💪 💪

Please bring back to life these beautiful noisy polluting planes.

No wonder the ice caps are melting!

I flew this with Cathay Pacific. Noisy but smooth journey.

What an ecological airplane 👍

A James Bond Title song just came in my mind.... "Moonraker" The song starts with the words "where are you? Why do you hyde?"

...and it'll do that all the way to its destination LOL. Awesome! Now that's what I call "rolling coal"!!! Thanks, GE for using the J79 core and combuster cans to create this gloriously anti-social power plant LOL.

every passenger was issued a hair dryer to hold by their ears and flight attendants walked through the cabin with cigars.

4 chimneys!

That...that my younger viewers, is what a real airplane sounds like.

Interesting!

Its running really rich im thinking this plane has old turbofan engines

Super sound

Carbon emissions. That plane invented the term.I luv it!

>COUGH!< >COUGH!

Sorry for the clean air

Nice !!

So,at that time,the airport area was more polluted than the industrial area.

Ones never coming back 🥴

First commercial jet I ever saw was the CV 880 - Delta airlines in Memphis. Bisho as in So Africa? I like the blue livery but can’t read the airline.

WOW!!

I understand that Greenpeace are looking to lease one as an executive transport.... Best from NZ.

More smoke than water injected 707s back in the day!!

Visibility before takeoff…clear. Visibility after….500 RVR.

Hermoso

La Fumée!!! 😂

If you was following one on approach, you would not need ILS. Just keep within the smoke trail!!

Every takeoff was IFR back then

Now that is what it's supposed to be super loud full of black smoke

I thought the new engines (vs. 880) were an improvement in reducing noise and smoke ??!

Turn and burn. CV990s were as impressive as all hell. And the anti shock pods on the wing set it apart from all other 1st gen aircraft. Coronados rule!

1:26 tight your belts, the plane disappeared.

Did the Convair 990 even have a buzzsaw sound on takeoff like the Boeing 707 or did it lack a buzzsaw noise on takeoff.

Lets not forget the Convair B36

Geeta Thunburg *"* You should be ashamed ! All that smoke has stolen my dreams !

Those are some very inefficient engines for sure😂. Look how far we have come though

Watch that acceleration...mmmmmmm

Does it run on diesel?

0:53 that's a lot of black smoke

Holy crap, is that thing burning coal?

The king of smoke

Wow, that early passenger jet was a dirty bird! (They all were.)

What a jet blast...

jesus how did they ever get away with all that

Looks like it could use a oil change

It’s rollin coal!

The speed thrash metal band of the skies : fast and loud

Add afterburbers and you would have a Hustler...