Wow, classics galore! Caravelle's (with a parachute!), Comet's (enormous flaps), a CV-990 Coronado, and numerous DC-8's and 707's. Love all those turbojet engines with daisy petal exhaust stacks and ejector rings too. This is a homerun for classic jetliner fans, thanks!
Quad jets rule! I flew on a DC-8 from London to Los Angeles in 1979. I used to love going to airports as a kid to watch the planes. So much variety then compared to the indistinguishable Boeing and Airbus twin jets of today.
Wow I’m in aircraft heaven! All these classics look and so much better than modern aircraft! I now have the perfect soundtrack to go to sleep! Thank you very much!
The improved Comet 4 was a fine airplane. Unfortunately, it never got the wide commercial acceptance of the American-built Boeing and Douglas jetliners. . . .
@@TOXOTIS63 *UPDATE* *_It's interesting that some of the aircraft on the list should really have been noticeably safer than the Comet due to being a similar type but of much later design & manufacture._* *_Fryed Ryce Muncherz krappenz kharzeestan DikterBummer etc shud note deferentially with huge gr8 awe much respect please too._* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% All Comets, including some Comet 1s, had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954, civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped. Examples were flying until 1997 - one example did a signals research global circumnavigation flight series in 1993 via Australia virtually without a rest travelling 28000 miles, only had an ice warning indicator issue during the flights. *The DH Comet - World Firsts.* 1st gas turbine jet powered airliner. 1st high altitude 8psi pressurised full fuselage length passenger cabin airliner, not a trivial feature as structure strength required for pressurisation considerably exceeded strength required for normal flying stress. Nobody else had done anything similar before the Comet. The b-47 used 2 relatively small, heavily built pressurised modules (the aircraft where 6 had their wings fold up in 2 months while flying & some had their wings fall off while parked). The 1937 Boeing piston engined airliner pressurised passenger cabin was pressurised to 2 psi only - in fact that could easily be done as the normal unpressurized fuselage cabin structure strength for flying stresses only was all that was needed to be adequate so no significant weight increase issues needed addressing. 1st all hydraulically powered flying surface controls & actuators airliner with under carriage wheel disk brakes + ABS. 1st jet airliner to cross the Atlantic. 1st jet aircraft to do a world circumnavigation flights series. *Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft including thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland & we know the world's first all metal construction airframe airliner was built in England in the 1920s by Handley Page.* *_De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, no evidence of negligence ever being produced in relation to the DH Comet._*
What wonderful footage of these classic jet airliners. So sad that those days are now long gone. Thank goodness for archive film like this to keep the memories alive - thank you for posting.
I was thrilled to see Cairo Airport, exactly how I remember it. I flew on the comet 4c several times. Thank you for sharing this piece of brilliant history
*4:29**---**4:32** PIA Boeing 720B!* On January 2, 1962, Pakistan International Airlines′ first Boeing 720B - a Boeing 720-040B (registration AP-AMG) _piloted by _*_Captain Abdullah Baig_*_ and _*_copilot_*_ Captain Taimur Baig_ - set a *"WORLD RECORD"* during the *_London-to-Karachi leg_* of its delivery flight to Pakistan for speed over a commercial air route, making the flight in 6 hours 43 minutes 55 seconds at an average speed of 938.78 km/h (583.33 mph). Beautiful clip dear *Lyubomir Ganchev!* Far-reaching effects of GOLDEN memories even after 62-years! *_Golden era of PIA's world-class repo...from 60s thru early 90s!_* Keep it up DEAR! [RUH, KHI PAK]
Thank you, I was trying to figure out what airport that was. So hard to recognize from this era. And, yes, it was spectacular! I wonder what movie it was taken from.
A time when a small bus still took the passengers to the aircraft. In1965 and 9yo we flew in 707 London->Zurich->Damascus->New Delhi>-Singapore->Darwin->Sydney and then a Viscount to Melbourne. 36hours London->Sydney and vomited all the way followed by a broken seat on the fully loaded viscount with no empty seats available.
United flew a handful of the Caravelles which I traveled on once from DCA to Chicago (probably). It puzzled me at first expecting a DC-9 but with the verticals on the wing.
Thank you for this posting. I’m old enough to remember each and every aircraft type filmed from the Vickers Viscount to the DC-8-62. The only one I haven’t flown on was the Comet. My favorite/s will always be the B-707 and the DC-8. That said, I can still remember the sensation of the CV-990 on takeoff. It was like being in a rocket!
David Harris ... were they 61s? All I remember is flying on Delta DC-8s ORD/FLL and ORD/TPA. And of course ORD/ARN to see my Swedish Marmor & Farfar (Grandparents). It really doesn’t matter to this 65 year old. This video brought back happy memories for me. 👍
@@PeterNGloor 707s were louder than the aircrafts that followed a while later such as 727s, MD80s, DC9s, 737s, etc. I remember noticing that back in the early 1980s that the 707s had louder engines, and so did the VC10 with the double engines on both sides of rear of aircraft. I guess they were louder because their engines were older models. Less fuel efficient too? Was that part of reason why airports had such strong smells of jet fuel in the late 1970s? (which I remember also)
I think 1962 my mom booked a flight from El Paso Texas to LA. As we were going thru terminal to our gate/ plane I was hoping it was a jet. I did not know at that time but there were a lot of Connies and one jet on the tarmack. I was shocked to board the one jet, which I now regret. Sure I was on cloud 9 at the time, but later regretted not flying on the constilation.
Que preciosidade esse vídeo, em pleno 01/02/21 a gente contemplando essas máquinas do passado que fizeram história, e ainda por cima duas cias brasileiras Varig e Panair e cair o queixo parabéns pela postagem uma relíquia dessa tem ser compartilhada.
Imagine you’ve never seen a jet airplane irl before and the first plane you see is a Comet. Just think how crazy that would look to someone used to a DC-3
Very cool stuff. Just popped up on my suggested viewing list. I used to fly on the 880s and 990s from SFO to DAL in the 60's. Great airplanes and they went faster than todays jets.
Ridden on nearly all of those ... Caravelle, Vickers Viscount and Vanguard (turboprops) and VC10, Trident, Electra (okay another turboprop), DC8, 707, 720, Comet 2B and 3C, BAC 111, Convair 880 and 990 as well as the early DC9-10s and Boeing 737-100s. Favorite? Vickers VC-10. So awesomely quiet in the cabin. Oddballs? Carvair DC-4, Britain Norman TriLander (okay, NOT jets)
Panair do Brasil DC-8 is from french movie "L'homme de Rio" with Jean Paul Belmondo and Françoise Dorleac (elder sister of Catherine Deneuve, died at 25 in 1967).
Remember that most of these planes are from the 40/50’s, but they look like something from the 2000’s. Just amazing how aviation has changed in this range of time
@@robertpolnicky3262 Yeah, and you can say the same thing about cars, too! Remember the early '60s Lincoln Continentals? The early '60s Ford Thunderbirds? The nostalgia is killing me! . . .
Interesting airplanes. These days even I, who has 50 years of spotting experience, has difficulty telling the difference until the airplane is within a few hundred meters.
Brilliant footage. More views of the Comet here than I've seen, but must remark that its landing attitude was unexpected. Actually, a number of bouncy landings - probably by first officers.
Back in the days when World aviation was the Kellogg Variety pack! and when the UK had a aircraft industry the Caravelles were beautiful really miss those classic livery's too,(PanAm,TWA) the first PanAm was a taken from 'DrNo'
Must've been a badge of honour to bounce the wheels once before final touchdown, eh? I landed at SFO on June 30, 1982 in a Hughes Airwest 727. Now, this once didn't bounce, as much as I think it owed money to the gate agents and was short of funds. It did NOT want to stay on the ground.
A Varig foi até os dias de hoje, a única empresa no mundo a operar os quadrirreatores das 3 grandes fabricantes ao mesmo tempo! 707, DC-8 e Convair 990 Coronado!
Sud Est tested the first caravelles with a drogue chute and they were painted in Air France livery but this drogue was never used for sheduled services. I don't believe it was ever a production model feature.
