Henry was one of my favorite captains to fly with. You just knew you had won the lottery when you learned you would fly all month together. He was very professional and very funny.
I was 17. I flew OMA-SLC-BOI in Delta 737-200s and 727-200s to register for college that week. I also meet the girl I would marry and have a daughter with. Now I'm 52. I can smell this video. God, I want to go back.
I was hired with Northwest in 2007 the last three years of their existence before the Delta merger. The MEM crew room in the beginning was exactly the same in 2007 as it was back then! I was DTW based but remember the MEM crews being so nice and down to earth, as for the DC-9...It was always a symbol of great times and feel lucky enough to say I had the privileged of working this plane alot when we started. Many of 5 day DC-9 trips with amazing crews. ❤ We were so broke but those were literally the best days of my life. Love this video.
Memphis based from 1991 until 2010. Best place on Earth to work!! I only knew Captain Buck from crew room appearances, but I flew with Capt Rex Little when I was a First Officer in MEM. Not a better base manager at any airline than the one and only Nancy Wells. Sure miss her. And Chief Pilot Taylor Abernathy and his secretary Geri Diviney. She'd loan us commuter guys her car and let us run down to Dale's Restaurant in Southhaven, Mississippi for lunch a couple times a month. Good times for sure. Too bad delta airlines ruined so many lives by closing that base.
Your Dad was one of a kind. Everyone loved working with him! I always came away from flying with him feeling better about life. Deborah and I had the pleasure of flying home through Atlanta with him on his way home after his last flight. When we got to Atlanta, so many were waiting to say congratulations, I thought he would miss his flight home. You could tell there were others that felt the same as we did. When he retired, he took part of the airline with him. For me, it was never the same place after he retired.
Fun fellers!lol lol man you could talk so easy with all these pilots back then while they waited for there plane to come into the gate as they sat!i miss em dearly each n every one!Thought of all, the time when I look upo to the sky!
This video is a treasure, a look of a more innocent time. I put a lot of miles on Northwest, PHX to DEN on a 727, DC-10 DEN to MSP, 727 MSP to PHL where my company was located. I loved the DC-10, the DC-9 not so much.
I met a DC-9 captain a few months back who reminds me a lot of Capt. Buck in this video. Henry Shaw was someone who could get along with just about anyone and he had a thousand stories. I only knew him for about three weeks before he died, but when it died, it hit me like I'd known him my whole life.
This video has given me a chance to reminisce on my childhood. This is absolutely fantastic! I grew up with all of these airplanes along with Northwest itself. My mother used to fly for them based out of MSP. I miss it dearly. Aviation in todays day and age is an embarrassment to what it used to be. All of these electric piece of junks we have now.. how depressing. Thank you for uploading this!!! I can’t get enough of those JT8D’s!!
I agree. This is when I fell in love with aviation and made it a career until it was unbearable and I left it. When I see this video I miss these days.
@@lawrencefreeman3803 I’m in the airline industry as well, it is terrible. It doesn’t come close to what it used to be.. it’s all about the almighty dollar, we employees are just a number in their system
This is great. I love the addition of the powerback out of Memphis. Captain Buck seems like an awesome guy. When I grow up, I want to be just like him.
Love this video. Brings back many wonderful memories of my flights to MEM on NW. I was a CTC travel agent in EVV and would take NW Airlink to MEM and connect to many a NW flight through their busy hub there. It was certainly a different time. The MEM hub was very nice and quite busy. I flew many non-rev flights out of there. Flew down to GTR for the day, also flew to PHX, SAT, SAN, OKC, MSP, and all the way out to BIL, and BZN. Most of these were on the DC-9s. Loved the powerbacks of the 9!! Northwest was a great airline. I remember when they flew DC-10s btwn MEM and MSP to connect their hubs. Who would of thought back then that DL would merge them into their system. Thank you for sharing this gem.
Enjoyed going back to the good days,out to Tulsa then back to Mem on up the east coast!Enjoyed the road and the great thye don't make em like these Capts no more!lol the fun days!lol Great crew!
This video is great, I enjoy watching the pro's do their work and make it look easy while having a sense of humor too. That humor is classic. The captain reminds me a little of my first flight instructor when I flew out of OLV. They fly like my cousin and I use to fly together in the 152. That is how flying should be, like they rented the DC9 from the local airline flight school and are going out and having fun. Like it was when you first started flying.
I'm a pilot and fully understand what you're saying, but pilots are human too, and a lot of mistakes were made in the cockpit, costing a lot of people their lives, just because of unnecessary chatter and distractions, hence sterile cockpits at takeoff and landing. No comparison to flying a 152!
Great video!!!! Thanks to Northwest I have a cherished pic of my little one sitting the first officers seat in Detroit on one of the DC-9-30. It is so cool you captured flying when it was professional, relaxed and fun. I bet flying the DC-9 we're fun and the days Northwest had a hub in Memphis. Thanks for sharing!!!!!!
I was 4months old, i am now on the right seat of a legacy cargo carrier. I'm so happy i saw this, i wish it was still like that, what an awesome job we have.
The airlines back then seemed more of a family business. I would’ve loved to work in the industry back then. Glad I changed paths before getting into it 10 years ago.
It was a totally different era- we call it “The Golden Age”- very family-oriented, small regional airlines got sucked up by the larger ones after Carter’s Deregulation Act. Everyone knew each other back then, and when bad things happened (Southern hijacking, Flight 242 & Marshall State) it affected us all. My dad actually bid on the latter two trips and was outbid by seniority. He knew everyone on those 3 flights so it was very personal. Nowadays, you’re just a number. The days of actually hand-flying an aircraft are few- too much automation and sometimes when the chips are down, it’s man vs. machine and debating on whether a computer knows your job better than you. I was working on my commercial when 9/11 happened, then my flight school got “struck by lightning” a couple of weeks later and burned down (many of us suspect it had some help). With my dad’s health in decline by that point, I went a different route. Do I wish I had finished and gone on to ATP? Sure, I do. But I also saw many fellow classmates and instructors furloughed. It changed aviation dramatically. I could have stuck it out, came out ahead when the pilot gap opened up, but some things just don’t work out the way you want. I still enjoy general aviation, both brothers went on to do commercial and corporate. Sometimes change really sucks, but at least there are a few “golden” videos like this one out there to remind us of a time when flying was fun, and not everyone got uptight about being PC and by the book. Cheers! 🍻
Hey y'all, I really ENJOYED flying on DC9's with Northwest back in the day😁rode a few times from International Falls to MSP in the very early 80's🤗thank y'all so much & wish I could do it again
Flew on the DC9 in the Navy when we went to Fallon, and el Centro. The 737 took over its spot I do beleive in 2007 or so. I remember the new smell of the 737
ACA1419 no, you see, when the instruments are round and complicated looking it equals “big pilot energy” but when the instruments are on a screen and easy to read equals “boo bad pilot”
@ACA1419 You're a fucking moron. These "pilots" fly with glass cockpits and just about 90% of their job is automated - including the paperwork! I would challenge these new pilots to hand fly an aircraft like this for several hours without any of the help from automation of today's aircrafts.
This presentation is a time capsule of era gone by and a legacy to a fine crew. Thank you for posting. FYI: N8909E, a -10, was delivered new to Eastern Airlines in Nov. 1966 following Eastern's introduction of DC-9 Whisperjet service (couldn't help myself) in Feb. 1965. Republic Airlines started flying her in Nov. 1979 until she came to fly for Northwest in Oct. 1986. Withdrawn from service 2004 after 38 years on the line, keeping the same registration her entire flying career. N965N, a -31, flew out of Long Beach and into service with North Central in July 1970. In July 1979, she started flying with Republic until Northwest took her in Oct. 1986. Withdrawn after 35 years of service in 2005. Why she still had that ugly paint three years on, as the Captain pointed out, is a good question.
That’s great info! I’m the son of a retired NWA DC9 captain and sent him recent footage at MSP of an old NWA DC9 that is used for fire training and it had a history about as far back as the ones you mentioned; another former Republic bird brought into the NWA fleet. I can’t help but wonder if he had flown it when it was still operating…
ATL was so awesome to me as a little kid in the 70’s before the new terminal. Dad would take me with him to the SOU crew lounge to turn in his bid sheets. Listening to his friend Earl Scruggs on 8 track in a Dodge Adventurer, riding the crew bus, the crew lounge full of strong coffee & cigarette smoke, the shrill of jet engines, the tugs in everywhere and the rumble of takeoffs- oh the “goodle days”! Golden Age of Aviation! It will never be the same 😢
@@1930Granada Yes, he was. They met around 1970 and remained friends until my Dad’s passing in 2007. Earl & Gary called the house when he was in his final days so Earl could speak to him (he was sedated but they say hearing is the last to go- a tear slipped out, so we knew Dad heard his friend). I remained in touch with the Scruggs family, particularly Gary until his passing on December 1, 2021. In fact, we had a nice conversation via text the night before Thanksgiving, lighthearted and cutting jokes. Earl was one of the nicest, most down to earth people you’d want to meet, super humble with a dry sense of humor, much like my dad’s. They are both greatly missed. 🩷
I love the DC-9 and MD-80/MD-90 series of aircraft. But although me and the family flew Northwest forever, it came at a cost. We lost my Aunt on Northwest 255 coming out of Detroit Metro in August of 1987
She and m,any others died as a result of a super blunder from taxiing on one engine. I miss the old days of flying, but I don't think those types of mistakes could happen anymore
Rememnering g an Awesome one of a kind father today ,Hope his goly jad a good day!Lol. Lol Hus hrmtal life from heabsn waiting n watching us, get through life's course!Lol Can't wait to meet em !He Ministered to us all well !Stay on course !God bless yall his family!
@@cmulder002 they still crash these days but for the opposite reasons - pilot’s haven’t got the slightest of clue how to fly the moment the autopilot and FMS has even the slightest malfunction
Susanna Register Thank you. I recall his name from my father’s memory and then I read about him in a book on the hijacking and put the two together. That’s all I know of him. Some folks on FB said he lived outside of Atlanta last they knew.
OMG, this is nothing short of absolutely precious!! [and foretelling of the 'full-frontal Delta assault',,, eh..] My son was a pilot for Northwest, and went to Air Canada 'afterwards'....
In the DC9 at Northwest we wore custom molded Telex ear pieces and used hand mics. In fact, in those days we had only single head com and nav radios so every freq had to be written down in case we had to go back a freq change. Lots of hard work, but the best times of my airline career. Memphis 1991-2009, with 17 years of that on the mighty Douglas. Great guys, great plane, wonderful memories.
thank you for putting the actual date this video was made. UTube seems to insist putting the worthless "publishing" dateon all their video's like WHO cares when you published anything YourTube, because RU-vid doesn't publish ANYTHING
The airplane in question: www.planespotters.net/airframe/McDonnell-Douglas/DC-9/N8909E-Northwest-Airlines/69PrHDpe N8909E, delivered in 1966 to Eastern, then picked up by Republic in 1979 and rendered to Northwest in the merger. Sadly scrapped sometime after 2004 when it was withdrawn after being on the line for 38 years.
ted It was My first Airline Job I worked at the Corpus Christi station at that time we did everything one day Ramp one day on the ticket counter.next day operations sometimes all in one day if someone called in sick, then in 1983 I went to work for SWA where I did 26 years before I retired.
Lol...co-pilot has a cigarette at 1:21:59. Those were the good ol days. Still like the display on the old jets with gauges, ect. I looked up the tail # of this jet (DC-9-30 built in 1970 and scrapped in 2005...2 previous owners).
It always makes me sad when I look up tose old tail numbers and see that she was scrapped. I always hope that they are flying in Africa or somewhere where there are a few left 😢
It wouldn’t fly with some guys, others would think it was hilarious. He wouldn’t simply ask if he wants his gear if it wasn’t down, he’d say “go around” first, then they’d worry about the why and all that.
@@Spyke-lz2hl Yes. Sterile cockpit rules. You can't crack jokes on approach, especially a joke that could be misinterpreted as a safety of flight issue, causing a forced go-around (costly), and which could also lead to an accident.
