United Douglas DC-8 & Boeing 720 - "LAX Action"

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United Douglas DC-8 & Boeing 720 - "LAX Action" - 1962

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Classic Airliners & Vintage Pop Culture

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"Airports in the Jet Age" is a wonderful period piece! Watch for a Tigers CL-44, Connie, AA 720B, Delta 880, Western 720B, Pan Am 707, and Bonanza F-27 as well. From the Rick Prelinger Archives. Be sure to check my channel for the best in VINTAGE & RARE airliner videos!
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@MrSunlander Жыл бұрын

Our elementary school principal used to show us these movies, pretty much a year or two after the film was made. One of the reasons I fell in love with planes and KLAX.

@stevehofmaster7489 7 жыл бұрын

I worked at LAX for many years,I have a lot of great memories from there,still one of favorite airports

@stoeger40 10 жыл бұрын

The true pleasant, enjoyable days of aviation are gone forever. Now we just have to deal with the way it is, no meals, everybody is looked at as a criminal, etc.

@ppgwhereeverett4412 Жыл бұрын

Born in L.A. in 1954, we would go tothe airport just to watch the takeoffs and landings ! This film is exactly what we remember. With prop jobs included.

@mbazell 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Brings back many fond memories.

@JeffGR4 7 жыл бұрын

United Flight 766 is quite the chameleon-a United Boeing 720 @ 09:44-magically turns into a United Douglas DC-8 @ 09:52 before turning back into a United Boeing 720 again @ 10:04, rolling down the runway @ 10:18... but takes off as a Pan American Boeing 707-320 Intercontinental @ 10:28!

@charlesduran8700 6 жыл бұрын

special note- United never flew There B720 nonstop from LAX - Idlewild they had to make one stop in either Denver or Chicago

@gaguy1967 4 жыл бұрын

@@charlesduran8700 yeah, i didnt think so. LAX-IDL would be a DC8

@mileswrich 2 жыл бұрын

@@charlesduran8700 And UA 766 was never operated with a DC-8 either or scheduled to fly nonstop from LAX to IDL. During that time period, 700 flight numbers were 720s and 800 flight numbers were DC-8s. After the 727s arrived, United changed the flight numbers and 700 flights were DC-6s and DC-6Bs.

@CursedEarthPizza 9 жыл бұрын

"Experienced mechanics carefully inspect the powerful jet engines." Guy wiggles the back end a few times...

@v1rotatev230 5 жыл бұрын

Love these videos

@WhiteActivist 3 жыл бұрын

What an amazing country this video is showing. Everybody is polite, white, speaks English, dressed nice, no tattoos. Where is this place?

@johnmarshall4442 3 жыл бұрын

Hahahah hahahah , yeap !!!!!

@solomonpilot2510 7 жыл бұрын

I MISS THOSE GOOD OLD DAYS,I REMEMBER WHEN I FLEW THE FIRST JET,IT WAS ETHIOPIAN B707...THX 4 POSTING !

@briangillespie9833 9 жыл бұрын

Airline travel was great in those days. Nowadays everyone is herded onto planes after being searched like criminals, crammed like sardines into tiny uncomfortable seats and subjected to screaming babies and wild kids. And if lucky a small bag of stale peanuts.

@strafrag1 7 жыл бұрын

Very true and people are just plain nasty and selfish now too.

@gerardmoran9560 6 жыл бұрын

Not exactly Brian. Fly first class. It's cheaper than coach back then (corrected for inflation). You have great lounges and the industry has a far superior safety record. In reality we have the same service, with better safety but with a giant Greyhound bus of cheap seats at the back of the jet. Not trying to be classist, but that's what the consumers wanted and that's what they got. Spend the equivalent money for the same service but a safer experience (well, except for the TSA part). Cheers

@thomasfitzsimmons897 5 жыл бұрын

Brian Gillespie you said it!

@TheUtuber999 5 жыл бұрын

Brian Gillespie: Pretzels are distributed, so as to avoid lawsuits from passengers with peanut allergies.

@Hemidakota 3 жыл бұрын

Welcome a real family (Williams) dressed for flying at 7:00 minute mark. I still remember this when flying with my parents before the big sardine cans changed everything - the 747.

@misled1982 10 жыл бұрын

5:33 Ufff those early jets were dirty as hell!!

@johnmarshall4442 3 жыл бұрын

DC8 , greasy 8

@adel-711 5 жыл бұрын

1962. I was born in 1962 in Munich Germany ,

@bobbypaluga4346 6 жыл бұрын

I had no idea United bought 707s, let alone the later 720’s. I’ve flown the 720 several times on Western Airlines. They were simply a shorter 707 made for shorter routes, the layout was the same. In the old days United flew only the DC-8: 727, and the 737. 767s replaced the DC-8s, the 727s were replaced by 757s.

@lrg3834 5 жыл бұрын

Bobby Paluga, the 720 is actually a 707-020 (shortened fuselage length) as opposed to the original 707-120 (standard fuselage length). Boeing re-named it "720" at the request of United Air Lines. That said, you would not be wrong to call it a 707 because that's what it is. Therefore, United did indeed fly both DC-8's and short fuselage 707's (720's).

@BillyAlabama 2 жыл бұрын

We had that Falcon Station Wagon!

@comander402 10 жыл бұрын

hola gracias muy bien saludos

@theflightpractitioner7288 2 ай бұрын

04:02 Evidence Les Nessman worked dispatch prior to moving to WKRP.

@gavrielnugroho8126 8 жыл бұрын

Its nice to see classic planes, unfortunately im not born on fifties or sixties

@DaPlatinumJedi 5 жыл бұрын

UA766’s flight number is still in use today. As of 03/19 it serves SFO-PDX, equipment used is an Airbus A320.

@mileswrich 2 жыл бұрын

But UA766 was not a nonstop LAX-IDL flight during the time period this film was made.

@MsJoaniePH 10 жыл бұрын

GOSH! NO TSA!

@SchmidBrosPictures 10 жыл бұрын

wonderful video =) greetings from zurich-kloten, sandro

@mcdonnell220 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Schmid; good to know all the hard work is paying off, and so glad you guys are enjoying this stuff. Been to Zurich a couple of times, as a young boy in the 1960s.

@SchmidBrosPictures 10 жыл бұрын

Classic Airliners & Vintage Pop Culture your welcome =)