I remember being awestruck at the 747s of Northwest Orient as they sat at the gates at PDX when my father and I showed up for his shift at Portland Tower on overnights. In 1977, I was blessed to fly on a Pan Am 747 from Fairbanks to Seattle and a 707 from Sea-Tac to Portland. It was a dream trip come true for the young schoolboy I was. I was even treated to flying First Class from SEA as I was one of five people on board that flight that day. Five! The flight attendant treated me like royalty and capped off a trip that was a memory of a lifetime.

My stepfather back in the mid 90s contacted Tex Johnston and they talked for hours on the phone. Eventually Tex sent him an autographed photo of the 707-80’s barrel roll and a vhs copy of the film and some Boeing promotional material for the 707. At one point Boeing was trying to get the vhs back (I’m not sure if the was proprietary information on it or what), but he kept them both and now I have them. The picture is a prized possession.

I'm just glad that, before building a revolutionary aircraft, bill Allen didn't move boeings headquarters to Chicago, outsource the parts manufacturing to a hundred inexperienced companies in a hundred different places, and turn the assembly of the aircraft over to the finest aerospace engineers available in the low country of south Carolina. Thank God! 🙏

this makes me beyond excited to fly the triple 7 tomorrow, also feeling extra blessed to have flown on a Korean 747. Truly amazing innovation, thank you Boeing!

What a fabulous documentary. Some amazing insights into the development of two of the greatest planes in history.

The Rolling Stones travelled on B707’s. The band is still touring in 2024 😉

If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going.

Brilliant docu! I saw all the parts in 2016,released on the Boeing site because the Boeing company was 100 years old in that year. All those Airbus fanboys always bashing Boeing should watch this episode and learn something.Boeing defined the way we fly today. The brilliant 367-80 was a gamechanger. Boeing had brilliant engineers like Ed Wells,George Schairer,Jack Steiner and of course my hero Joe Sutter.They invented so much. And Bill Allen was prepared to risk the company. This was the Boeing filosofy. Always looking to find ways others don.t. Joe Sutter developed a brilliant flying machine,the 747. It changed flying. It was a vision from Juan Trippe,a true visionair. Joe Sutter made it happen. No computers to help developing. Brilliant engineers with slightrules made 75.000 drawings. There was a 747 mockup for the engineers to testfit parts. The big high bypass engines where a unknown,P&W had so much problems with the JT9d. But they did it and formed the most beautiful and iconic airliner in the world. The A380 never can reach that status the way the 747 did.Truly the Queen of the Skies. Boeing went on and came with probably the best plane ever build,the 777. It outsold the A330/A340 massively and even the Airbus bosses admitted that the 777 was a brillant plane,a wonderful programm. Boeing again took the lead with the composite 787,Airbus just answered with the A350. Boeing was confident that point to point flying was the future and they were right. Airbus thought hub to hub was the future with the A380. And again,like the 777,the 787 outsells the A350 massively. Sure Boeing made mistakes..they had tremendous problems with the 787 production,we all know what happened with the Max. But they recovered,made a lot of changes within the company and got production going again. Airbus made huge mistakes as well. Both companies build excellent flying machines but Boeing did all the groundwork. And they still do.

Nice video, but Boeing neglected one critical fact. By 1955, when Tex Johnston wowed the crowd at an air show, Boeing already had an initial order for 29 707s from the USAF. They were designated KC-135 and they were in-air refueling tankers replacing the piston-powered KC-97. Additional orders followed. So, yes, Boeing bet the company, but as of 1955 there was already some cash flow coming in. Eventually, over 800 KC-135s for various purposes were sold to the Air Force. Also, with all due respect to Juan Trippe, when most other airlines embraced the 747, it was the plane's long range (thanks to a huge fuel capacity) that was its primary attraction.

5:30 it wasnt just this one facility. The allies learned after the war that Germany had (in effect) open air factories in the forests. Imagine a regular factory, just instead of inside a buillding with walls, it was outdoors in the forests. Obviously, given the weather in Germany, there were drawbacks to this method, but the major bonus was that no forest factory was ever discovered until the Allies were deep inside Germany, very late into WW2. To this day, very little is written about them.

I think I saw the Beatles in the opening of this AVIATION DOCUMENTARY!

I am amazed and delighted to read these documentary. Kudos guys. It proves that the success we see today came at a cost that is beyond a dollar value.

John D. Anderson Jnr. there at the end. The man, the legend. Rockstar.

707 The most revolutionary jet

These are amazing documentaries! How many will you do!? Keep them coming!

If Boeing made pre built houses I’d replace the doors 😂

I love the boeing ❤

Love you Boeing...! You have more than any other advanced Aerospace technology ..!! Much thanks...! Cheers...!

I got to see my 1st 747 in 1969 at O'Hare Airport when I worked for Continental and PanAm landed there. Took pics with my camera. It had Provisional Airworthieness stanciled on the side. Too my 1st ride on a TWA 747 from JFK to O'Hare in 1970. Flown on 747's all over the world in the last 50 years. The "Queen" will always be my favorite!!

This video was great. It was awesome.

As a 7 year old i flew on the maiden flight of a brand new 747 for BOAC. London to Sydney as part of my trip home to Auckland from a holiday to visit my English family. 1973. I remember it like it was yesterday. The 787 and Air New Zealand is my all time favorite flight experience. Love Boeing. So sad people decide to trash talk it so much. Its only suffering the same bs as all big companies suffer in todays health and safety and political correctness hog tied world where men like Juan Trippe Bill Allen and Joe Sutter cant make those bets they used to be able to make.

You guys should start building airships. If you don't, someone else will. They're going to make a big comeback this century. Go on, tell your boss I said so!

An aside: First flight of Boeing B-52: 15 April, 1952.... over a decade later, Boeing 747: 9 Feb. 1969... which was chosen to be converted to the YAL-1... which would transport the fully-constructed body of the Boeing/Rockwell Space Shuttle. The Boeing B-52 is planned for 100 years of service... It has been a long adventure sine Kitty Hawk (17 Dec. 1903); As they say in the biz: "well done". Footnote: mostly done with Slide rules.

Good documentary.

I love the boeing ✈️❤

My favourite plane is the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner and i had the best experience with Boeing, and is the best aircraft manufacturer. Keep it up.

Finest documentary covering from page 1 till today! Loved it.

New subscriber here. I am really enjoying the new uploads. Keep up the good work. Also happy to see my carrier Kenya Airways 0:43

I have read that the Comets' flaw was not square passenger windows, but rather square navigation windows on the top of the plane. Newer Comet versions with this issue corrected performed very well.

38:50 just for fun... B727, with 747 in the background; 727 represents, roughly, the average size of most common airliners of the day... revealing what a behemoth the 747 was.

Great video!

Thank you for sharing.😊😊 Nice!!😊

Nice awesome cool documentary! Way to go Boeing!

Great documentary....Well done... Roger.... Pembrokeshire UK

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Wooow. fantastic, very informative. 👍👌💪

Joseph F. sutter (1921 - 2016) "Forever Incredible."

If Boeing - or Airbus, Embraer or anyone else come to that - launched a plane tomorrow that looked from the outside essentially like a 707, would people say it looked "old fashioned"? Other than the fact that engines have got "fatter" its remarkable how little the basic outline of planes have changed since the '50s

good work

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I love you Boeing 😘❤

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I built more than half of the 747s. Not sure how to comma that number but probably because I smoked to much MEK doing my job. Wing body join is where I worked my trade. 25 years that I will never forget. They won't forget me either.

Bombardier is probably like "Keep our name out your mouth, Boeing."

Absolutely top notch documentary. Now days it's hard to remember that prior to the 707 Boeing was completely dominated by Douglas and Lockheed. FYI Chuck Yeager was the 2nd man to break the sound barrier, George Welch was the first. Proof is that the Smithsonian and the like now say Yeager was the first to do it in level flight because Welch did it in a dive. This is known as "moving the goalposts". The requirement was to break the sound barrier in a dive, level or loo de freakin' loo. 😎

Much better than an ethics video...... 🙂

Its crazy thats an F86 escorting it at 39:20, when you think the 747 is still flying today, and yet jet fighters have gone from F86s to F35s...

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Wow, what a human feat to engineer and build such machinery. Not sure is was the best for mankind though?

Piloto para eternidade, texan ❤

757 is an awesome product…. Nothing matches it. 5 gen engines will keep it on top. The 747 is one of the best flying airliners and truly revolutionary . I flown all manufactures aircraft and Boeing cannot be beat…. If they get their management together, we might see the 757 plus and the 797 soon….

seem to me 1st swept wing aeroplane should be credited to Burgess-Dunne, seeing how it flew decades before Germany began experimenting with the idea. It also qualifies as an early tailless delta which one may also prescribe to the wily Germans...an interesting series notwithstanding.

Bill Allen, and Juan Trippe throw in some Howard Hughes and you have modern aviation.

Boeing to going beautiful look

For those of you rooting for Boeing, remember.....they'll be plenty of roots upon landing.

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Swept wings were a product of the genius of Donald Douglas and company in 1933.... look at the view of the DC-1... (DC-2 & DC-3) and why that aircraft was designed that way and the benefits derived from that.

Awesome documentary; Just a small footnote: it is M-E 2-6-2 Not M-E two sixty two!

Hey Boeing the audio is out of sync halfway in

FWIW, at the advent of the Automobile, it was believed that the human body cannot withstand speeds in excess of 25MPH.

Boeing has descended to the quality level of GM / Ford / Chrysler-Stellantis

Shrinking the earth…. Also shrinking the world of whistleblowers

God knows how you got the SST contract in the first place with that unbuildable engineer’s wet dream. When you realized the swing wings would be impossibly heavy, you submitted a revised proposal that bore an uncanny resemblance to the Lockheed L-2000

Still remember my third grade field trip to Oakland International Airport in 1969 to see something called a “747”. Fast forward to 1976, I lived near the end of the runway at Oakland for two years. Never had to visually look to confirm a take off of a 747. Nothing else sounded like it. And I can still remember the extraordinary beauty of that amazing aircraft gaining altitude.

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41:10 is wrong but great thing prob time it was mad

People were right The Jet is too fast to adopt by humans

Why retire planes, why not make them better?

Will you ground the Dreamliners after yesterday’s whistleblower news? ALL current active 777 and 787 should be checked for quality issues.

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They're making out as thou if the airlines hadn't bought the 707 that would have been it for Boeing, but that's nonsense. The air force had bought 100's of the kc-135 tanker which was a development of the same proof of concept that the 707 was developed from.

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That corrupt phone call from JFK. Do this or else......

The British had jets well before the NAZIs, but no one would back up the design and it was plagued with delays.

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Oh yeah. The Boeing SST was far, FAR more ambitious then the rather pedestrian Concorde. Concorde was quite small, barely eeked over Mach 2 and had no growth potential. Boeing's SST, B-2707, had ample growth potential in speed because, as always, Boeing was thinking ahead. The 2707 started at Mach 3 and was far larger. The enviro weenies killed it not the technology or frankly, I believe, not economics.

Is the Boeing dream passed😢

The 747 was too big, ,too many people, took forever to board and de-plane...The DC-10 was far and away a better ride and experience.

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@Bataxtania me too

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