Takes me back to flying as a kid. They served free meals on 2 hour flights. Best part of the vid is that he didn't take pictures of himself or his food.
I agree....the problem is there weren't that many video cameras back then, and they were much larger. It was still a novelty to be filming like that...unlike today where nearly everyone is carrying around a high-def camera in their pocket on their phone.
csiel no doubt, people thought you were a weirdo packing a 30lb camera around, there would be so many great videos now if we had better tech back then.
Back when flying was fun , great memories as a kid when you could have a nice conversation with the stranger sitting next to you , everyone was nice , happy and relax back then.
The 737 is the only aircraft in that lot that's still around. Some airlines still have 747s but no US airlines do now. 727s were the most common flights from one US city to another. Back in the 80s, 727s were the kings of US domestic travel (DC9s, MD80s, 737s, and 707s were assistants), and 747s the kings of international travel (L1011s, DC10s, and 767s were assistants). 707s actually dropped out after the early 80s, but the 727s, DC9s, MD80s, and 737s continued throughout the 80s.
Thanks for posting this video, this bring me back as a kid flying on eastern regularly with my father on some weekends he was a captain on the L-1011 out of the Miami base, I myself started with AA in 1998 with the 757's and is still flying to this day. I am currently now a captain on the 787 Dreamliners
I was impressed with how good this video looks considering it was made in 1983. I had just been born then and was unaware that there was a time when people were allowed to smoke on an airplane. Thanks for the vid!
lidsman2221 Even in aircraft today (most built well after the late 80's) I see ash trays in the lavatories with big no smoking signs on them. Not sure why. I remember when smoking was much more invasive in society, including on airplanes.
I liked airline service in the 80s and before, but I was so bloody happy when the finally banned smoking on airplanes. That was terrible and disgusting, in such an enclosed space. Ditto for buses. Very happy that it is in the past now.
Sitting at ORD recently, nighttime, rain showers, very little a/c movement on the ramp. Guy sitting next to me says, "You know, I only fly when I've got plenty of time. If I'm in a hurry, I drive." Often it's because these RJs don't have the legs to fly around the weather, so there we sat. But the jets in this video, they held the fuel and had all kinds of reserve thrust - most of them, anyway - to get you there except under conditions even the military won't fly. Superb video of a time not that long ago in years, but a time that's long gone.
So weird to hear the presence of "...smoking is permitted at your seat but never in the aisles, lavatories, or non-smoking sections of the aircraft" and the ABSENCE of "...please visit us on the web at..."
@@sebaspaz0103 I remember around 02/03 is when they banned indoor smoking is restaurants in my state. so weird but whatever. A plane I understand but on land is kinda silly.
I was born the next year and found this footage awesome ! Thank you to have posted this video and registered this in 1983 inside the plane I have tears on eyes watching this.
O'Hare as it was in the mid-1960s to mid-1980s. The departure was from old Concourse D, and on taxi-out there are glimpses of old Terminal 1, which was the original international facility. All were demolished in the late 1980s to make way for today's Terminal 1. The takeoff was to the northeast on Runway 4L (seldom used today).
Eastern was great. I flew it in the 80s to LaGuardia from Atlanta several times as a kid and the snack they handed out was amazing. It was a cellophane wrapped plate with an apple, banana, crackers, nuts and laughing cow cheese (or something like it, it was triangular). You were never starving upon arrival that's for sure.
Phenomenal footage. Bring these days back (besides the smoking), please! Flying was such an adventure. So many types of aircraft, so many airlines. Thanks for the memories. ❤️
Wow!! Love this video. It brings back so many fond memories if my childhood when we flew Eastern and Southern Airwsys out of Nashville down to to ATL to connect to flights to Florida for vacations. Both parents smoked, so we always sat in the back where it was noisy as hell next to the engines! I saw Piedmont Airlines jet in the video. We flew them once to Myrtle Beach, it was on a YS-11 Turbo prop. Look those up!
@@joeimj6203 I flew with my family in the 1980s too when I was a kid. I remember Piedmont. Myrtle Beach sounds cool, on the turbo prop, haven't been on one of those myself though. We did fly Eastern a few times as well. We flew TWA the most often because their hub was here in Kansas City for a while and then TWA's hub moved to St. Louis which was really convinient to fly to from K.C., a short half hour flight. When we went to London where my grandparents lived, we'd fly there via St. Louis. We did so several different summers. It'd usually be a TWA 727 to St. Louis and then a TWA 747 St. Louis to London. We flew TWA to Orlando also one year for Disney World. We flew on Eastern though one time when flying to Philadelphia where my other grandparents lived, but flew there earlier years on TWA when they were hubbed in K.C. (I remember one flight being a 707). Oh, and another trip, we flew west to Reno, United I believe. Anyway, those are my memories of flying in the 80s
Good ole Republic Airlines at 7:37 ............ Flew that airline and before that Southern Airlines from LGA to MOB many many times from mid 70's to mid 80's. Always looked forward to flying back then ......... now, if I have the time I will drive before I fly. Great video!
OMG! I think 3:38 is the trailer park when AA191 crashed! I could be wrong, but I think that's it! What a great video. Smoking on flights... that seems like in another place in time now!
Nice memories of the good ol days, love the pilots, gasing up before lining up at the turn, nice 727, " serving beverages and lunch ", wow, with real metal forks and knifes, holy batman, people were still nice and pleasant, nicely dressed, not the animals of today, wow, wish I was young again and living back then again.
Me too. I could hear how pleasantly that flight attendant was talking to the lady in her seat, and laughing pleasantly too. Today, it's all serious strict lieutenant mentality from FAs. Sadly though, it's nessesary now, with all the f***ing nut jobs who've made the risk of danger in the skies so much worse over the years, 9/11 being the worst but not the only thing that changed attitudes
Amazing period footage, George. It's a video time capsule! Astonishing. The stewardess' passenger address is remarkably clear! Love it! The "now permitted to smoke" announcement is shocking to these modern ears. Sounds so "wrong"!
5:03 Watch for the no smoking sign. You would never hear a pilot say that today 5:27 “Extinguish all smoking material at this time” You would never hear a flight attendant say that today
Massive cameras then made you look like a media official. Batteries were huge as well and you had to carry a spare. Nice shot of a Continental DC-10 at ORD (2:25) and what looked like a couple L-10ll Easterns (8:23 and 8:29)at Orlando. Eastern had aviation roots back to the 1920s.
You have a great piece of history here, thanks for sharing the video. Orlando was a busy place back then, but I didn't realize that United had such a big presence. Love the DC-10s, the 727s not so much. When Eastern was on its last legs, I was given a first class upgrade on the carrier to use on my PHX-PHL round trip. The flight to Atlanta at was uneventful, although a number of PAs were very nervous about the aircrafts condition. Most of the paint on the 727-200 was either faded or gone, about 8 feet beyond the top of the cockpit windows, it looked as if there was a hole or a gap in the skin. Of course it couldn't be, but it looked like it. On the way back, I was an idiot choosing to go thru Kansas City rather than ATL, because of a weather issue that never materialized. I ended up in Seattle, paying for a hotel room and a ticket in the morning to fly HP onto PHX. Shear incompetence and employees that simply didn't care anymore. It was a terrible carrier in the late 80's.
I think they were so brow beaten by the two Franks, (Borman, Lorenzo), that ruined the airline--probably accounts for some of the employee's attitudes. I had relatives and friends at EAL, and the stories they told about the leadership was just depressing. Male egos at the top ruined this airline...so pointless.
"Extinguish all smoking materials at this time." And lunch! ;-) Thanks for sharing this! I commuted between ORD and MCO for about a year. Brings back some memories.
I wonder how big a personal video camera was in 1983? Glad to see the airplane didn't crash during critical phases of flight due to operation of the video camera!!!
I think it’s noteworthy how adept the flight attendant is at her briefing. These days, so many cabin crew seem to trip over their words during safety briefings, as though they just started yesterday.
Great video. Flew Eastern so many times as a kid in the 70s. Chances we're if you were going to Disney world in the 70s you were flying Eastern they were Disney's official airline until Delta did I believe in the 80s. Miss those days of how cool flying was and all the great airlines and aircraft . Aside from Eastern remember many flights on Pan Am, TW,A,, Northeastern,Capitol,Continental, US Air,American International and Delta. Delta is the only one still around!! Oh I also remember flying Piedmont a few times!! And I can't believe I almost forgot to mention National Airlines to Florida if it wasnt an Eastern flight it most likely was National !!
I was telling my son who is 18 back in the day you could just go to the airport and hang out at the terminal and watch planes takeoff …. just grab a flight anywhere you want of spur the moment if you wanted to dislike taking a taxi….you can’t do that anymore since 2001.
thanks for this great video.Love the old videos like this. That plane was a boeng 727>I flew in many of those in the 80s.Very stable plane.I wonder why they did not continue making them they flew very stable and spacious cabin.Love the ciggarete smoking announcement.I noticed the number of dc10s.Brings back many memories.
Carlos Dj Sonic Why didn't Boeing make more 727s? Quite simply because they were replaced by Boeing 757s starting in 1982, which could do almost everything the B727 could except far more efficiently. The B727s were a 1960s design and were actually "old" even at the time of this video, although they would soldier on for many US major airlines until the early 2000s. Hardly a failure, the Boeing 727 was the most popular jet airliner in the world for a time, until it was eclipsed by the B737 and later A320 families of jets.
Faced with higher fuel costs, lower passenger volumes due to the post-9/11 economic climate, increasing restrictions on airport noise, and the extra expenses of maintaining older planes and paying flight engineers' salaries, most major airlines phased out their 727s; they were replaced by twin-engined aircraft, which are quieter and more fuel-efficient. Modern airliners also have a smaller flight deck crew of two pilots, while the 727 required two pilots and a flight engineer.
flying in the 1980s was just as easy as taking a city bus and train, but today its more complex to fly because of higher security after 9/11 and the technology that you have to do it all yourself.
Outstanding video. So great. Smoking announcement 😀 Announcement of drinks and a meal on 2 hour flight. I know that runway well from 14 years in Chicago. Big turn on take off. Great aircraft in the video. Memories.
Only cigarette smoking is permitted at your seat if you're in the smoking section! I remember as a kid always flying in the non smoking section only to be 1 or 2 rows from the smoking section.
Eastern was a great airline in the 70s and 80s, those tristars are just eastern all the way. The everglades debacle was a black mark but I miss the livery of all the now defunct airlines of yesterday......
@@hiphopboy29 Yeah they started downgrading the quality to cut costs and when people probably started complaining the carriers all said, "We'll show you"
Took my first solo flight at 5 in the fall of 82. Eastern Airlines, BOS-ATL-MOB to stay with my cousins for four months. Got my wings and some popcorn from the FE on the BOS-ATL leg. If he only knew that would set that kid off into career in aviation years later at the age 46 ✈
What type of aircraft were you on in that video (ORD-MCO)? The interior (with the overhead bins) looked like a Boeing 757 to me because Eastern was the first airline to receive that prototype in that year.
The flight attendant that gives the passenger briefing kind of sounds like June Foray, the lady who did the voice over for Rocky The Flying Squirrel...
Not that much because my mother had one. Probably about $300. The Sony video-cameras like Michael J. Fox had in 'Back to the Future' were more expensive.
LOL we have surely evolved, because video cams back then were as big as the aircraft. Now we have our cell phones doing it all. Plus there's no smoking on planes as it was back then either.
