The level of comfort, respect and service in those days were far better than today.

These videos make me nostalgic for a time I didn't even live in.

I used to love spotting at Dulles before the midfield terminals were built. The unobstructed view was absolutely incredible.

I would go back to those days in a heartbeat. Thanks for the memories.

True golden age of air travel. I am glad I got to experience it as a child. Really broadened my horizons

TWA “Starstream” was the moniker for their 707s and “Royal Ambassador “ the moniker for their First Class inflight service. Flew the 707 First Class many times. To this day, the 707 still remains my favorite aircraft and will always hold a special place in my heart 👍🏻

I really enjoy all these retro videos I have a collection of plastic see thru late 60s early 70s passenger jets PanAm United TWA and British Airways I was born in 1968 and Iam so intrigued by the these videos I can only imagine air travel was much simpler and more pleasant back then unlike all the hassles and craziness of unruly passengers of today its just 😔 sad .

I was born in 1970 and videos such as this really show how things have changed. Great video, thank you!

Flew out of Dulles in 1972 on a TWA 707 to San Francisco on way to live in Australia. Was in 2nd grade.

Thanks so much for the upload! I have good memories of this golden days of air travel! The passengers were dressed elegantly! Everything had a touch of exclusivity! My very first flight was in 1974...and took me to Stockholm...I was 12 and I travelled alone! ✈️🇸🇪🇩🇪🇩🇰🇫🇮🇯🇵🇨🇦 🇺🇸🇹🇳🇩🇿 🇼🇫🇷🇺🇳🇴🇪🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇳🇱🇰✈️

Growing up in the 70s was cool,,

A classic video. Thanks for sharing this, the magic of the 707. I feel privileged to be able to remember those days.

What a great era! My Gosh... no words to describe my feeling now!

No security of any kind really makes you look back in envy

"Where are you going Tony Smith?" ~ Creeeeeeepppppy af.

Brings back lots of memories. My dad was a mobile lounge operator for many years.

This brought back vivid memories of watching this very same video (with "Ripples" intro and outro) when I was in Kindergarten in the mid-1970s.

Ahhh these old good days ...

My Dad was there. He worked the ramp for TWA at Dulles in the 70’s, then in the 80’s switched to BWI.

NOTICE THE BEAUTIFUL LIVERY OF TWA AND THE DISTINCTIVE DESIGN OF THE BOEING 707----AWESOME

God I miss TWA

Regarding the meal service, it seemed to me when jet aircraft came on line, having a multi-course meal served aloft, although nice, on most flights, there just wasn't enough time for it. I remember how the FAs would have to race thru it to get people fed before dishes would have to be collected prior to landing. If there was any delay such as for turbulence, it only added to the chaos. I recall a couple of times when meals weren't served when they were scheduled because time simply ran out on the crew. With jets, most domestic flights became 2 hours or less so you wouldn't starve even if your flight was airborne during mealtimes. Jet speed was good but some good things were lost in the process.

It is amazing how much of the main terminal is exactly the same as it is today, and how the same "People Movers" (the bus Tony boards from the terminal) are still in use today, and all are still very effective.

Yes, let’s ignore the existence of the Flight Engineer. He’s only the most critical member of the flight deck on 707s

That young fellow could be me, on annual journeys from IAD to LAX in the late 60's and early 70's.

Back when flying was an adventure.

Wow! I like those old footage plane videos, they are like time machines that are made from lcd screens.

I remember all that when I worked there back in the early 80's

Thanks for posting. this airport isn't far from me...

was a great source of comfort when the non-smoking sign went off -- and everyone would light up and relax !!!!

Thank you putting these on, it does bromg back many pleasant days

That terminal announces voice was still in use back in the early 1990's..I was told is was synthetic taped analog computer that could seamlessly broadcast anything you typed into it.

totally loving the DC metro area airports. keep em comming

When I moved to Northern Virginia in 1981 Dulles was still underutilized as it is in this video. It didn't really change until United made it a hub in the late 1980s.

The narrator's voice reminds me of HAL 9000's in "2001 a space odyssey"

Was about the age of that boy that same year when I flew out of Dulles to London on TWA for an extended vacation, earlier before our flight, we waved my Dad off on another 707 heading west that would ultimately deliver him to Tan Shon Nhut - and another year in the "fun captial of the world"...

I remember those Ripples programs form grade school.

Great upload, thanks. Rode the moon buggies a lot but never to the plane. They had fins on the top by the time I started riding them and the extendable ramp was gone.

Dulles wasn’t very busy at first. I used to shoot landings there all the time, very little traffic. Deregulation hadn’t happened yet. Very little hub style airline scheduling. The terminal was beautiful. The mobile lounges were AWESOME. Such a shame they didn’t work out, the hub thing was pretty much incompatible with the lounges. That big United terminal in a separate building just ain’t the same.

I love how the baggage handler handles the bags in a careful and deliberate manner, stacking the bags neatly side by side. Today they just toss the bag on the cart and casually pile bag upon bag. 🤷‍♂️

Back when people actually suited up just to get on a plane.

That’s when flying was a pleasure !

I walked through the 707 that was Air Force One for President Reagan at the Reagan Museum. I was surprised how small it was.

I had one of those suitcases! TWA sold the excess ones to employees every year.

Flew on a TWA 707 in 1969. I was 10. Beautiful plane!😊...and yes we put on our best clothes too!

You have to love those old cockpits, with all those steam/analogue gauges, these days all the cockpits are glass/digital.

Look how nicely people dressed back then.

If I were Tony and I heard this guy for real, I'd run like hell...

Back when flying used to be an enjoyable activity and respectable. 😁😁😁

Wow, that’s an era truly ‘gone with the wind.’ I only flew on one 707 in my life - 1974, TWA. And that vacation included my first 747 and L-1011.

Boeing 707 ... The Cadillac of Jets

Hot meals, not dried out pretzels. No TSA groping.

This was back when people had pride, discipline, and self respect.

This was a “School film” hence the “Mr Rogers” Type narration.

the narrator's english is perfect!

The Stewardesses looked so dainty and classy walking up to the plane.

all of These memories…..

I remember those days

3 of the Airport movies were filmed at Dulles. Airport 1975, Airport '77 and The Concorde: Airport '79

Airport kitchen???? What's that? Is that where they keep the little bags of pretzels?

Tony Smith is 50 now!

I love this channel.

IAD still looks the same as in 1970!

4:17 Showing where a passenger will be seated denoted by a smiley face. I bet those were cleaned after each flight.

Very cool!

this is when Marriott used to cater the airlines. They're the ones who came up with the concept. If you look on the catering trucks it says the logo of the Marriott corporation. They got out of food service and airline catering in the 80s and early 90s. By the late 90s their hot Shoppes restaurants were closed forever.

This announcer sounds like Mr. Rogers. "Can you say ground stop, little boy?" I flew through Dulles a few times in the 1960s and 1970s. Those mobile lounges were a pain. All they did was add an extra layer of complexity to the boarding process. And if you ran up to the gate at the last minute after the lounge had departed, tough luck. I guess the point was to park those ugly airplanes as far away from the beautiful terminal as possible. Another problem with Dulles in the early days was that people often confused "Dulles" with "Dallas." I spoke to a flight attendant who accidentally bid for a Dallas route when she thought she was bidding for Dulles. She wondered why the flight was taking so much longer!

IAD still has the shuttle mobiles that go between concourse A and concourse D

Look how gently the luggage was treated back then....lol

We were treated like kings and flying was even more special than the destination

Note the innovative “Mobile Lounge” in this video. IAD, Washington Dullles International Airport, had a unique architectural and functional design. One large, rectangular central terminal containing adjacent rectangular departure lounges inside. Each departure lounge had a doorway connecting the terminal departure gate lounge to the docked “Mobile Lounge.” You would go to the departure gate and take a seat in the Mobile Lounge until your flight was ready to depart. The lounge itself transported you to the aircraft where you walked on a covered jet plank to the aircraft. Note at minute 11 you will see aircraft lined up one behind the other nose to tail. When the aircraft landed they would exit the runway and park on a long strip of stands parallel with the adjacent taxiway. The idea was to save aircraft fuel and improve logistic mobility. I recall landing at IAD, turning off the runway, just a short little taxi before the engines shut down. We could see the Dulles Terminal in the distance with mobile lounges and trucks coming to us.

Does anyone know who was behind "the voice" that announced the flights at Dulles? He was there for YEARS since it was built until the early 90s, I think.

Wow , I didn’t know they already had automatic doors back in 1970.

This is actually our local airport! It’s quite surprising how much still remains the same, such as the interior of the main building. When I went there recently, I specifically looked for how many older jets I could find. To my surprise, I found a couple MD-10s/MD-11s in active service with FedEx and UPS! Other similarities: Airline font at the ticket booths is the same The ticket acceptors’ booths are the exact same The bus ports are similar Same Air Control tower, although I think another one was built near it.

Have a nice flight Tony Smith and keep your feet off the seats.

Trans Global Golden Argosy 707 to Rome now boarding.

I always wondered who the person was that announced the boarding 0:46-0:55. I remember hearing him in the early-mid 80s announcing the flights. Every Saturday my family and I would go to IAD for a few hours watching the planes take off/land from the observation deck. My first flight out of IAD was on Republic loved walking out to board the plane.

A brief shot of the FE, but no mention of him that I recall.

Why I was born at 90's?

I miss those sounds

"Where are you going Tony Smith". I might hire that voice and call it - HAL9000 a humanoid computer, I'm thinking of making a movie called - 2001 A Space Odyssey.

55 people?? That's why fares were so high!😊😊

Ozark flew there from Champaign and Peoria

There are A LOT of 737s still flying

Wow have we certainly moved backwards in the efficiency of baggage handling! ULD containers for luggage in a narrow-body, 53 years ago?! We’ve gone back to hand loading!

They're still using those buses for transfer between terminals?

Ahhh...the 70s and 80s. When flying was a pleasure and you were treated like royalty. Now? Puleeeze!

Interesting to see that Dulles didn't have jetways in 1970. When were they installed?

Who's idea was the stupid bus from terminal to plane, idea? I got on one of those things when I was real little, and a lady on the bus said "I've never been on a plane like this".

i like the bus thing it looks cool

707 always looked like it was smiling with a cute button nose.

Is this an educational video for children in 1970?

نحن نشتاق للماضي بسبب سوء الحاضر 😔

a 707 without a tail antenna is less 707

Specifically, this airport needs a scheduled nonstop service to Shanghai Pudong Airport. That, or Reagan (yes, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner can land there, even on a full payload and also a long-distance nonstop commercial flight).

Dulles hasn't changed much...the big busses still run and the planes still fly. But the culture that made air travel pleasant has changed. It's Hell, now.

My cousin who works for the government told me that Dulles is one of the largest non-military pieces of land owned by the US.

Check out how Dulles has nothing around it. Not that way now!

Good TV

When airplane food was good lol.