Yeah, compare this with something from TMZ, full of meaningless drivel about this week's "celebrity," shouted by a shrill-voiced moron... oh and shot with a purposely shaky camera whipping all over the place.

Couldn't agree more. Today, everything has to be entertainment or no one listens. We've dumbed down our culture so much. It's one of the reasons we have that joke of a man in the Oval Office who claims to be a very stable genius.

Craig Deutsch As opposed to the career criminal politician who intentionally mishandled classified information, terrorized her rapist husbands sexual assault victims, lied about the deaths of Americans on her watch, exploited the people of Haiti, laughed about the child rapist she got off besting a polygraph, and was involved in the murders of over 20 people who threatened her family’s political regime. Yeah we really missed a great opportunity for her to be in office, so unfortunate about trump. Idiot.

+Herb Jackson Jr - In the 60s it was very common to helicopter from the South side of Chicago, from Midway airport (6300 So.) to O'Hare airport (9500 No.). Much faster than a long taxi ride.

Back in the early 70's I flew quite frequently, as a child. My parents were divorced, one living in tulsa, one in el paso. I'd fly that circuit on continental airlines every few months from around age 3 on up. I remember being treated like royalty....given unlimited peanuts and sodas...and they gave me little flight wings that were clipped onto my shirt. You never hear of that stuff today.

the involution is in society at large !!.

tube396 Thanks for sharing your experience! What was it like to ride in the Constellation? How many hours did it take?

I miss those awesome turbojet engines.

You can still hang around the airport, just not as close. Many airports have several nice plane watching spots and its about the best free entertainment you can get if you like planes.

I feel fortunate to be born when I was. I got to grow up in a much less complexed world. No internet, no social media, no 24/7 news channels or modern day terrorism etc. We had 2 tv channels and they both went off the air at 11:30pm. We had so much fun just been kids without all the pressure kids experience today via social media etc. I'm now 66 years old and I don't mind getting old because I was blessed with a full and wonderful life.

They still do wear that in first class between business city legs. Most travelers back in the day were not leisure, they were business folks. It's not as common these days but plenty of executives still fly first class all the time.

I'd rather have screaming engines!

I am 57 and have two children a boy and a girl :) and now one Grandson :) but they live in another state . God knows how I miss them even their crying :(

Steve Lovell ö

Yeah... How long has it been since someone said "thank you" in your presence?

Yes, you're right, and I would like to add that from 1972 when the Boeing-747-400 was released up to 1994 there was no significant improvement in the commercial aviation, meaning up to the middle 90's we were basically flying on 1972 technology. The only "thing" missing here on the plane from this video video is the AP (automatic pilot) that was implemented around 1965 I think.

billy payne, the 747-400 first flew only in 1988 and entered service in 1989. It incorporated technologies such as the glass cockpit and fly-by-wire that weren't possible yet in the 1970s. The model that entered service in 1972 was the 747-200, which, in retrospect, was not much more advanced than the original 747-100 and didn't have any real breakthrough innovation. But your observation still applies for the 20-year period between the launch of the original 747 and the 747-400. As for the autopilot, primitive systems were demonstrated as early as 1914 and were commonplace in the 1950s already, although they became radically different after the 1980s, when the availability of the microchip made computerized flight controls a fixture of all modern planes.

Goytá F. Villela Jr. Yes, in fact it was the B-747-200 (I made a mistake on that one even tho I knew it, I just had a "mental lapsus". In regards to the first AP invented by Sperry that was more an "stabilizer" than a actual AP, but it's OK, he took credit in 1914, and then in WW2 some bombers implemented it on some long missions, but I was more talking about a real AP i commercial airliners that can really give pilots a rest outside the cockpit and go and kiss a flight attendant in the bathroom, and that first started in 1962 with the B-707 and B-727. And in the 80's came the UP FMS (flight management system) as we basically know it up til these days but I am not 100% sure about this or if the Airbus line 330 and 380 are using a much more complex system. Anyway thank you for your excellent reply.

The big advancement regarding the B747-200 was that the engines were more reliable and more powerful. The -100 couldn't fly JFK-NRT nonstop. The reason why Pan Am had Boeing build the 747SP. But while Boeing was borking on the SP, Pratt & Whitney was able to make enough improvement on the engine that would allow the 747 to fly JFK-NRT nonstop and carry the same passengers the -100 was carrying as opposed to the smaller load of the SP. hence why so few SPs were built.

sasha blaine The 747-200 still had less range than the SP though (couldn't fly LAX-SYD nonstop), and even the 747-300 had less range than the -200.

Midway is still handy. Another reason I usually fly Southwest. They still use that airport.

Ed Osdoba Your dad is in this film? How cool!

Ed Osdoba Which one is your father and what is your career?

I remember picking up relatives at LAX fifty years ago we even dressed up just to pick them up. It was just a different time.

+Classic Airliners & Vintage Pop Culture the best on the video is the ch-53

+Manaritzis88 Sikorski Super Stallion?

no i was tired haha its a h-34

+Classic Airliners & Vintage Pop Culture And thank you for doing so!

+Ed Osdoba Thanks Ed! Feel free to peruse my channel anytime, I have hundreds of films like this uploaded.

I know using words like 'fellas'

Same

You mean English?

Al Cuevas Is it true that you received 2 years of training before doing the job?

mlovmo Hi, When I got my "formal: training, it was two months at the FAA academy in Oaklahoma City. If you survived that (40% of my class didn't) then you went back to your facility that you were going to work at for On the Job Training. I would say that it took about six month of school and training before you were certified as a journeyman controller.

+mlovmo The FAA academy was closed in 1975 when I was hired in as an air traffic controller. Spent 6 months at Austin to check out in the AUS tower; was then transferred to RVS (Riverside Tower, Tulsa); checked out there in about another two months (lots, lots, lots more traffic than Austin); then four months later went from a GS-7 to a GS-9 (could only advance at most two pay grades every year), and then after another year, on my hiring anniversary in 1977, made it to GS-11 and became a "full performance level" controller, which basically just meant that I could work without another full performance level controller somewhere in the tower. Well, it also meant that no other controllers in the tower with me had to be Full Performance Level controllers -- only one controller had to be "Full Performance" -- and, when staffing was short, I could work alone, solo in the tower. After working for a year as a Full Performance Level controller at Riverside Tower, I moved to TUL (Tulsa International) and became a GS-12. There was a lot less traffic at the Tulsa International Airport than at Riverside, but the radar room below the tower added five radar and three or more hand-off positions, in addition to the four positions in the tower, that had to be mastered. There was also non-radar to master -- something that had the FAA academy been in operation when I hired in I would have trained on sooner rather than later. It took almost another year to check out on all the positions at TUL. A lot of us who transferred from RVS to TUL had problems with all the coordination that was required of controllers at TUL. At RVS, when we plugged into Local, we were GOD! Or, to quote Mel Brooks: "It's good to be king!" At TUL, the teamwork requirements meant we were working with other controllers as much or more than we were with pilots.

garyskerr How comes you folks received such little time to train? Nowadays you'd need a college degree, money and about 2 or so years in training?

+Al Cuevas: How 'bout the white sox?

Patrice Le Coz United called them “Jet Ways”. I flew with United from the age of 2weeks to 21. Mostly ORD to LAX.

PilotGleb people walk around unshaven, in pajama bottoms, all tattooed up like they just did a dime in sing sing, bone in their nose etc etc sad world...

They have no class anymore. former pilot.

Well they didn't have to undress to go through security back then.

Even now, you are treated with more respect if you present a neat appearance

Yeah today it feels like you're in Walmart on a plane - BLECH !!!

Those openings in the nose of the plane were for the air conditioners too. Douglas decided to run Freon based AC systems instead of the typical air cycle machines most other planes had. An old UAL and TWA mechanic told me they were impossible to keep running well, and leaked badly after a while of use. I believe the planes were eventually retrofitted with air cycle systems later. Interesting about those seats too. I guess Douglas wanted the DC-8 to be different.

Actually, the technology for ATC has changed very little since then. The new GPS based system is just rolling out now and wont be in full use until 2020.

That's good to know, I love learning new stuff