You gotta love those 727 loud and smoky break your windows and paint your house black those were the days I live very close to a runway and they flew over our house full throttle low altitude the neighbors myself we all loved every 2nd of it. I missed the noise!!!
Wow, this is awesome. I've taken the AC 727 from Toronto to Ottawa and back on the same day once on a snowy and cold January day in 1984. And the DC9 to Montreal several times between 1982 and 88. Thank you for sharing this video.
Another Classic Airliner's home run. I could watch the 727 takeoff and land all day long. That JT8D is a Pratt & Whitney built juke box of mechanical music. Thanks!
I believe the 727-200's that Air Canada bought were some of the last produced by Boeing. I did a lot of business travel on those as well as DC-8's, Vanguards and Viscounts. My all time favorite was the super stretched DC-8's that were loud, powerful and beautiful all at the same time. I remember flying out of Amsterdam on a KLM DC-8 fully loaded that literally took forever to get off of the ground. It took about an hour to get to cruising altitude. About halfway across the Atlantic the aircraft began to lose height rapidly and the Captain came on the intercom and said they had developed a crack in the windshield. The flight was to land in Toronto but because of the increased fuel used to fly in the thick air we had to land in Gander to refuel and for the pilot to get permission to take the flight ahead to Toronto. So we took off and flew up the St Lawrence very low on a crystal clear day. At one point I could see Quebec city, Newfoundland coast and New Brunswick all at once. In those days flying was really special, not like the cattle car mentality you have now.
Interesting story Robert. It could be that AC's 727's were some of the last produced. I would have to check a production list. Hope you enjoyed the video clips. Herman
I had the privilege to work for Air Canada in the mid-to-late 80's, when this paint scheme as in use. I've doubtless been in the bellies of a bunch of the aircraft in this video. The '27 was a truly cool airplane!
I also remember about 1970 there used to be a weekly dc8-62 freighter trip from cle.-yyz , long long before 911 my uncle got me behind the ramp to watch them load it (no containters, no pallets, just post-office style canvas carts) and a few times I remember they must have done an equipment change to the passenger flight and I remember a dc8 making the cle-yyz trip, amazing everyone on the concourse. I remember seeing CF-TME at CLE many times.
It cracks me up when people who Live near an airport complain about the noise of them taking off and landing, hahah. They should've been there in the days of, 727, DC 8, DC 9, DC 10, 707, and B-52's. Now they were loud.
The AC 727 in the red livery was always my version of the "decadent 727" when I was a y0oung kid seeing it between AA, TW, US, NW 727's at US airports!
This is probably around 1985-86. At 2:39, you might see a CP Air DC-10 in the background with the Expo 86 logo engraved on the rear engine nacelle (is it called "nacelle"?).
Fantastic! thanks for sharing. Brings back a lot of memories. I lived at CLE most of my life and I remember from 1980 on there were only 2-3 AC ops per day. There were two non.stops to YYZ and a one-stop via YXU (london, ONT) but that little DC9-32 with the Maple Leaf tail on it always turned heads and made us Aviation enthusiasts proud that we had a foreign airline arriving in our city. I had the fortune to fly AC on a few occasions, thru YYZ to YUl and YQB on 727 and one time 767 when it was ¨¨new ¨¨ in 1984. great carrier!.They used to feed well also, Once on a CLe.YYZ flight (45 mins) we got a Smoked meat sandwich (new to americans, used to roast beef) a cole slaw and brownie Try doing that today!
Maybe it has nothing to do with airplanes, but my favorite period in musical synthesizer design was between 1987-1991. I also loved the red and gray Northwest livery. Many designs change for worse, in my opinion.
When I was a kid we had a house right under the approach for Dorval airport in Montreal. I'd lie out in the backyard and watch the planes come in. I could identify them by the sounds of their engines.
Another remarkable feat Air Canada stewardess did was on the OTTAWA/Toronto flight which was only and hour long was to provide a fantastic poached egg breakfast with juice, coffee, toast and jam to everyone on a fully loaded 727-200. They would be out of their chairs and serving literally as the landing gear started to retract. They were amazing people and provided the very best service. Air Canada was an exceptionally good airline then. Their planes were the best, immaculately cleaned and maintained, so much so that whenever they upgraded to the next generation the planes were instantly sold. Very, very few AC planes were scrapped
After which it became Canadian Airlines International, which operated until bought by Air Canada in 2001. CAIL's biggest mistakes were (1) biting off more debt than they could chew with the Wardair purchase in 1989; and (2) badly misreading the market in the 1990s, going after high-end business travelers, when most people wanted lower fares. WestJet eventually filled that gap.
Thank you RailFan for your comments. I've looked at some of your Rail video's. Interesting. As a bit of a Rail Fan I always enjoyed watching especially going back to the day's of the steamers. Herman
When you work at the airport you can get some amazing footage from beside the runways and taxiways. I probably spent more of my time at work doing this than I should have 😏
Unfortunately I did not record the tail registration and on this video it is not visible at all. I will have a look at my original copy to see if it any clearer there. Herman
Herman Kreimes Hi Herman, I apologize. He is a famous aircraft spotter here in youtube. You can search him by his name. I love your videos by the way. :)
CP Air was bought by Pacific Western Airlines in around 1988(?) and became Canadian Airlines International. Eventually Air Canada took them over in a government-mandated merger to avoid Canadian collapsing via bankruptcy.
Wardair was bought out by Canadian Airlines International in 1989, only 2 years after its own formation from the purchase of Canadian Pacific Airlines by Pacific Western Airlines.
