That's a mighy long flight. My father worked for AA too, so I grew up on 707's too.

VERY JEALOUS!

@Charles Martel Always what a JERK!.

@@packingten he was jokking

That’s a proud record. I wonder how many total hours flying time he had? It had to be way up there.

Your dad was a titan of flying!

I bet he saw many changes throughout his time there I love all these old vintage movies and unlike the madness of today travel then was much more peaceful and a really pleasant experience so sad to think we've gone from that to this where flight attendants and crew are attacked and assaulted by some of the wackadoodles that really shouldn't even be allowed to board an aircraft let alone travel on one I mean it is truly sad 😢 the way society has changed those were the good ol days indeed.

Laughing - 1:30 _"Our jets bounce and buck! A landing you won't soon forget."_ in the voiceover. Yeah, I miss those days. I still have a deck of National Airlines playing cards from when I was a kid. I wonder how a 707 would smell to our un-jaded noses. Non-smoking is the only thing that comes right to mind that's better today. It took me to the end of writing that sentence for "safety record" to nudge my ribs.

TWA called its turbofan-powered 707s "StarStream Jets."

Нови Сад Србија So true. I often think that. No millennial sounds this way. Different animal altogether. More masculine, mature and intelligent sounding.

Could sell Marlboro cigarettes with that voice

Actually 1961.

"The world will never see another pilot like that of Captain Harvey Beebe Jr again". Maybe not. Ole Capt. Harv must've begun his 'flying career' when he was only 4 years old. He retired when he was 60 yrs old (FAA requirement). 32 years with PAA made him 28 yrs old when he was hired. 60 minus 56 equals 4. Pretty simple math there ole boy. 55,000 hours over the course of 56 years comes out to just under 1,000 hours per year. That's about normal. Dunno about the 55,000 hours though. But in another perspective, are you sure that ole Capt. Harv is your father? 56 years of pro-flying? He'd have had ZERO time to be to be with your mommy. More likely, he'd been spending ALL of his time with the 'Hotties' working the back of the plane. Just sayin' there, Stevie. After a 38 year airline career pushing heavy metal around the world, I managed to log 30k into the books. Ya see, Stevie, real airline pilots actually do NOT enjoy being in the front-end of the machine ALL of their life. Yes, we DO LOVE the profession (or did, until deregulation made a mess of it). No, I didn't fly the 707 like ole Capt. Harv. I flew MOST of those Boeings that came along afterwards. The ships were bigger and so were the engines. A LOT bigger. But that doesn't really matter. Taking-off and landings were my favorite moments up front. Once aloft, it was ALL automation. Nothing particularly special, other than monitoring the gauges, being fed by the 'Hotties', making plans with them for our long layovers, enjoying those plans with them, and if I 'got lucky', I got some sleep! Hahaha. I suppose daddy never told you about THAT part of being an airline Captain and going to really cool places. I've been retired for a decade now and do NOT miss it at all. Somehow, I just can't figure-out HOW ole Capt. Harv logged 25,000 more hours than me. It was time for me to 'cool my jets', go home and get some rest without ever hearing an alarm clock again. Oh, BTW, I too never scratched any metal, nor injured any customers, On the other hand, I DID manage to SAFELY return aircraft that incurred engine fires, hydraulic failures, electrical generator failures, lightning strikes, bird ingestions into engines, and occasional flap-actuator fairings departing the wing. Happened too many times, but it came with the job. Just another day/night living the DREAM. It's Happy Hour now, but with NO 'Hotties'. "Cheers!"

I thought the same! Same with 1:07 where engine #4 barfs

American Airlines has a 737 painted in a similar heritage scheme. I have photos of it that I took a few years ago.

Yes, love the lightning bolt!

@@cityofabscissae It's awesome, saw on video recently.

Very interesting look at this legendary at this airliner

That was awesome, better than ANY Powerpoint I've seen.

Seriously. I loved watching him draw

Until the combustion drawing, those spikes ruined the nice, smooth lines...!

It kept some of the riff-raff away. Not all though, as money can't buy class or good manners!

People dressed up and behaved when they flew. LAX-JFK $100.00 coach with a nice meal served hot on a trey with usually 3 to choose from. I was TWA ticket agent in 1963. These fans were quieter with the air bypass. I lived next to LAX and could hear the difference. Good video here. Well done.

So, why not bring it back?

They liked the first landing so much they did it again.

Looks like a mid flight compressor stall lol

The tubojets looked like they were burning coal...lol

One of the best things about Delta's 757s is that they board from 2L. Not only do you enter the plane in a much more spacious area but you're not standing there waiting on the people in first class who are standing in the isle trying to reorganize everything they shoved in the overhead bin 5 times.

The Boeing was very safe compared to the Comet

5 below or 50 below, it's all the same, damn cold outside. But inside nice and comfortable, perfect for a smoke and a martini. Was "Barry Allen" flying deadhead on the jumpseat in the cockpit on one of these flights?

Yeah I cocked up the OAT but the Gen public wouldn't know anyway 😂

Except in that era 32,000' wasn't a valid flight level! Above 29,000' aircraft were separated by 2,000', so they could have been at FL310 (Flight Level 310 - 31,000') or FL330 (33,000') - but not in level cruise at FL320!

Its also just part of a turbofan engine. A pure jet would take far too much runway so at low speeds the intake turbine produces more thrust as essentially a propeller than the jet itself can. Once speed builds there is enough airflow that the jet starts to be efficient.

Yeah! That was nearly a four bouncer!!! :-P

It was almost a wheelbarrow landing.

He did it on porpoise

abundantYOUniverse Hehee!

Maybe he was a basketball player

My pop,was VP of PR in the 60s. Perhaps they knew one another. This was one of his films. Also check out his film on the DC-7! Brilliant

Is that why they had to fish Pete Campbell's father and Linda McCartney's mother out of Jamaica Bay? (and if he hadn't been delayed...Richard Nixon)

Everything stunk to high heaven with cigarette smoke, it's great so much of the world is smoke-free now!!

Last week I had four flights, one airline, cheapest class, three American cities. It was civilized: the passengers, the crew, the airport employees on the ground. I do wish parts of the experience were more like the old days, but the fact is that most of reality is not what makes the latest two- or twenty-minute TV news story about how everything in the world is always terrible and forever getting worse.

American flew a version of the 880, the 990 Coronado (it was marketed as the "990 Astrojet"). Unlike the 880, which was powered by CJ805-3 turbojets, the 990 was powered by CJ805-23 turbofans (General Electric built both versions), with the fan aft-mounted compared to the 707's JT3D-1s with the fan forward-mounted.

@@johneddy908 I was flabbergasted to learn of the CJs with aft fans! Will be amazing to see how jet engines evolve next, will they be powered by hydrogen or electric?

@@donaldstanfield8862 , many of today's jets are capable of flying on an advanced biofuel called Sustainable Aviation Fuel.

Jimmy 2 times

Weve deregulation (and ourselves) to thank. Sure, prices were astronomical back then, but ammenities were provided to incentivize travel. Now its a constant race to the bottom and a constant pushing of the line of what passengers will tolerate in return for lower airfare.

Yeah, that's why the narrator talks about getting more power and speed from less fuel. And being actually *ahead* of schedule is not, on the whole, beneficial: it amounts to taking a schedule, ignoring it, and then having to sit around improvising and waiting-which may be why the script talks about "on-time reliability", not "ahead-of-time disruption".

Luc Gaudreault Each airline had its own spin.

Built when 1 out of every 4 DeHavilland Comets built crashed.

JeffGR4 they are sexy

Until you live near an airport.

They'd never believe the sidestick!!

or even the A380. same could be said about the 787 too. Amazing aircraft.

Loud!

With government regulation the fatter margins you refer to were artificially set. While the roominess and pampered service may not be what it was in the 1960s, deregulation opened up the possibility of air travel to many more people. The free market has increased the safety, profits, and schedule capacities of the airlines. During that time, people simply "voted" for cheaper airfares, rather than roomy seats.

I remember when I was a kid almost no one I'd met had ever flown. It was something rich people did. We literally would drive across country on vacation.

Great service is available. Simply book a first class ticket or call net jets. What you’re saying is, you’d rather not pay for great service, you just want it anyway.

No, you have cheap airfare to blame. When I was a kid the only time a family ever could afford to fly was when grandma died. Before deregulation most Americans had never flown in their life.

Astrojet was American's branding, replaced in the '70s by LuxuryLiner.

@@gregsells8549 , the name "LuxuryLiner" was reserved for American's widebody fleet (747s, DC-10s and later 767s and 777s).

@@johneddy908 OK, the 707 became the LuxuryJet, as did the 727. This jogged my memory.

Joseph Liptak The faster you go, the more drag that develops, and hence, more power is required to overcome it. It's called significant fuel economy at lower speed. Much like driving a car at 55 mph instead of say, 65.

Boeing's 787 Dreamliner flies a bit faster at cruising speed - that is why it takes just seventeen hours to fly between Perth, Australia and London, England on an example flown by Qantas on the "Kangaroo Route."

We do actually. I’m a pilot on the A320. Depending on how much headwind or tailwind you are getting, our ground speed can get over 600 mph.

@@BGCflyer i also heard that the A-380 can get close to700. T or F?

That's a good question - it seems simple enough, but as with many things, the reality is more complicated than at first seems apparent. It was the evolution of the technology - the core engines weren't mature enough at that point to drive a larger fan. The early high bypass engines were rather cantankerous - difficult to start on some occasions. Features like variable inlet guide vanes were relatively new, and not used in as many stages as on modern engines, and a number of other features which had to be developed to create higher power output engines (required to drive a larger fan) simply hadn't been invented yet.

So, if 737-800's much newer jets replaced 707-120's much more "ancient" past jets, which jets of today replaced the Boeing 707-320 B's& C's intercontinental versions which had greater capacity & power than the earlier Boeing 707-120's?

walter riely Rattled? Hardly!

No they don't, Boeing has the new Dreamliners, which I have been on and they are far superior!

It’s too bad that social media gives a way to complete fools to talk about aviation. My friend the 737 was designed back in the 60s...Boeing keeps the commonality between models so pilots don’t need to be retrained...also do you understand how expensive it is to flight test a completely new design? Just try to educate yourself before you open your pie hole!