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.

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!

De Havilland Comet is an absolute beauty!

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.

Caravel used the nose design of the COMET for their great "little" aircraft. Flew on one in France in 1967 !

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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.

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.

The sight of the Philippine Airline landing at Kai Tak was spectacularand breathtaking.

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.

What a change to see aircraft that don`t all look the same, especially in good quality film

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!

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.

When flying was MANMADE, great noisy early warriors of the sky, not like the computers with wings we have today!!

First gen jetliners were so interesting, unlike the computer-designed modern twins we see these days.

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

THE best vintage aviation montage EVER! Amazing productions values: feels and sounds like we are airside in 2018.

Panair Brasil with a DC8!!!! Amazing!

That air India Boeing 707

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