United Airlines DC-10 / Tokyo Narita to Honolulu
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- Опубликовано: 27 окт 2010
- January 1997: One of my flight segments during my long journey home from Korea. It was a great flight. There were only a few people on the flight so I was able to fold up the arm rests on the five middle seats and make a bed. Too excited to sleep much but was able to doze off a few times as we crossed the Pacific Ocean. The entire flight was at night.
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this brings back nostalgia that i never had
Same. I didn’t exist when this was filmed lol
HA!
Honestly, the more people I talk to, I always hear them say their favorite decade was whatever decade they were in their late teens and 20s. So for you, enjoy this decade, don't get too caught up in the past, it wasn't all ideal and honestly, a lot of the stuff we were talking about then politically/otherwise, we're still talking about now. I personally try to make my favorite time, the time I'm currently in. I'd rather be here/now then there/then for sure. Only reason I'd like to go back is to experience it with the mind I have now (but I don't know I'd want to change all that much).
Here's something no one remembers: Airplanes used to smell a lot worse than they do now. So when you flew, the airplane smell would be stuck to your clothes like BO. 1). A lot of them (in the 90s) were from the 60's/70s and had been smoked in heavily for a good long time. 2). Pre 9/11 everyone got a hot (reheated) meal so that would constantly smell up the cabin -- coach food in the 80s/90s on most airlines was akin to hospital food of the same era, it wasn't spectacular. 3). The seats were almost always woven material as opposed to most that are leather/vinyl today which made them harder to clean and allowed them to soak up even more smells. So you'd smell like rusty metal, jet fuel, food and whatever else.
Right
Me tooo you can’t imagine 😢
joel embiid
"the captain has turned on the no smoking sign"
you will never hear that in any plane today
And I don't want to
Would like a smoke now and again on a flight. Remember as a kid being on a MD-83 at the back (as it was a smoking section) flying to Malta sitting with the smokers. Memories.
I remember smoking in the back of jets. Love love loved it! :)
I only smoke weed (never smoked a cigarette in my life) so there's only 1 type of smoking I would want to do on a plane haha
Can't understand how u can stand that stuff. My god
This is aviation GOLD! So glad I stumbled across this tonight after a random dc-10 search on YT.
5:27 You'll never hear that announcement again but it is crazy to think they were allowing people to smoke on planes as late as 1997. I don't remember this being allowed domestically.
The flight attendent doing the announcement at the end sounded like she was about to fall asleep. Haha!
International only at this point. Rule in US was applied to domestic under 4 hours...then banned completely in US domestic. Sometimes the airlines would have to wait to clear out of US ATC to turn off the no smoking sign while in US territory. I remember this being a HUGE nuisance as a smoker.....what nostalgia when flying wasn't a commercial commodity but such as an experience, golden years are over sadly! !!!!!!!!!! :-(
***** The last time I remember being on a plane where smoking was allowed was in 1994 on a DC-9 between San Diego and Puerta Vallarta, Mexico. I was about the same age you are now. It's funny because now it's such a rarity to see smoking permitted anywhere but I can remember when it was everywhere. It was thick in people's homes, bars, restaurants, etc. Now I cannot even imagine being in a restaurant where someone was smoking close by. Strange..
Evan J Way back when I lived in Las Vegas from 1977 to 1990, you could actually smoke at McCarran International airport. The cigarette smoke was so thick inside the gates and main terminal, you could cut it with a knife.
JMMT7022801 I remember smoking at McCarron in the 90's and other airports as well. Vegas to this day is kind of like going back to the 80's as far as smoking indoors. I think we were all just accustomed to it more as a fact of life but now it seems like such a major offense, interesting to be on the corner of that no? When I go to other countries, it's like going back in time as well. Still no smoking on flights.
Thanks for sharing this. Moved from Okinawa back home to Hawaii in 97. I'll never forget when PHNL was crawling with wide bodies and old school DC-9's, 737-200's, C-141's and all the old liveries. Nice catch of Continental Micronesia 747. That was once a common sight.
Amazing, You were able to capture what the inside of Narita's Terminal 1 looked like before renovation! That was my childhood when I took Northwest to MNL via NRT that I had been looking for a long time. Thank you so much for this!
Love your vids. That Varig 747, I cant count the number of times I flew her back in the day, along with her sister the Md 11. Both missed.
Outstanding footage, great job!
Thanks for sharing this video. I only flew a DC-10 for United Airlines in 1998 when going to and back from visiting my father in Wyoming.
@SDMullis yes, it does seem insane. but i vaguely remember seeing ashtrays in 737s in '94 and in '99 or '00 when i was beginning to fly places. wow. can you imagine being trapped onboard with that smell?
Love the view of Tokyo here! Such a beautiful place full of beautiful people. 😌
VARIG 747-300! I miss you VARIG!
Wow today is 20yrs since this vid has been taken thnaks
Flew in a dc-10 from Chicago to LA in 94. Crazy how they had smoking sections and allowed it. Such a simpler time and i miss it
What a rare thing. I was searching for this for a long time
Same
@brownbrownson I wondered the same thing when I was editing the video !
Did some quick research: Smoking was basically banned on U.S. domestic flights of two hours or less in 1988. The major international carriers started banning smoking on international flights between 1995 to 1998. I distinctly remember people "lighting up" right after takeoff when I was younger. It seems so completely insane to me now.
Yup, I remember smoking everywhere in every situation. I even smoked for a while in my younger years. Agreed on how insane it seems now.
Fantastic video!
Wonderful what seemed like no big deal in the 90's is very cool today. I wish I had the brains to start filming my flights in Super 8 from the late 70's on.
Omg that legroom on coach wow and I can't believe it's united
-inactive- that was back before the domestic carriers decided passengers were akin to cattle on a train
That flight is a nonrev's dream come true! i sure do miss the days when open seats were plentiful. good for passengers, not so good for airlines tho....
I got to fly nonrev on United from SLC to PHX by way of SFO back in 2002, and it was terrible.
I flew non rev several times between roa pit clt lga and horrible experiences and I worked for us airways at the time and Pittsburgh is the coolest airport with the rudest fuckers ever.
what a gorgeous bird
Look how BIG those overhead bins are!!!
Varig, o maior orgulho brasileiro 🇧🇷🇧🇷
I have to say what a beautiful music! :D
Wow thanks for this
I remember those seats
VARIG 747 :3
Spotting 18 - I'd sometimes see those while walking through the terminal. I'm trying to remember where they were headed.
This flight was Sao Paulo - Tokyo with a stopover in Los Angeles.
Grande Varig
@@kennethimagine3240 yess its the -300
have you ever been on one of thos buses that takes you to your plan ? like you go down a gate like your geting on the plan but your not and it drives you there no need to even get off it takes you right to the door.
The good old day of air travel
Amazing !!!
wot a wonderful video...
The Varig B747-300...one of the rarest of all the Boeing 747 variants. Basically a classic -200 with an extended upper deck (I know there were other changes too.) Never got to fly on one...Very few airlines had any sort of personal in-flight entertainment back them, I know Virgin had individual IFE on their B747s with something like four different movies playing on a loop. It was primitive compared to modern systems but most planes were like this one.
My only flight on a UA DC-10 was SFO-HNL in 1999 - maybe this very aircraft! - which I recall was delayed due to a rudder issue. Not very reassuring. Overall a good flight though.
1:13 OMG It's the classic 747 from Varig, the best Brazilian Airliner for all time!
747-300 likely
Awesome to see what it was like flying in a DC-10! I was literally born 2 days after this video was recorded as I was born 1-17-97!
Then your airplane sign is a DC10, ur welcome🤗
I was born that day hahah
@@aidan9958 You were born on 1-17-97 too?
GREAT VID...I LIKE!
I love this and that United 747 on 11:26
United gray livery with tulip and dc 10 is 10/10
flew American Airlines dc 10 service mostly between buffalo Chicago. .and Chicago Dallas. .late 70s early 80s.. the "luxury liner"...
That Varig 747 is huge
5:27 They’re turning on the no smoking sign... just, NOW?
I love the fact that their playing Hawaiian music
When United was still great.
They were OK but compared to now they were great lol. I always liked Continental and TWA. Great service but those days are gone forever
How long did the entire journey from Seoul to NC take? 30+ hours?
Varig: Tokyo-Los Angeles-Sao Paulo
Ex cabin crew?
Amazing
Thanks !
Before inflight entertainment. I would have been just been 4 years old when this video was taken.
wait a hoot. "if you are smoking, we ask that you extinguish your cigarettes.." wow. i didn't know the smoking-on-plane-days weren't that long ago. about what year did they disallow smoking inflight?
brownbrownson only on domestic flights was it ever available. I’d say they stopped roughly around the 1999-2000 era
so bummed I was too young to fly on a DC-10.... I was born in 1997 ......and by the time I started to go overseas they had almost all been retired and it was just not in the cards......
God I wish I lived these older years...
you should have taped the takeoff too :)
The truck with the steps has to be from the 1970s lol
Im Born in 1998
This video was Made 1 Year before my Existance
they have nice dc 10s we fly to usa with continental dc 10
Me too I wish they still fly was first flight I did
gotta love the DC-10!
The Death Chamber 10 !!!!
How was Korea?
Hermoso el avión de varig
United 826?
The Narita of 1997 still looks better than the LaGuardia of 2022!
And back when you could smoke...wow!
old school vibes
No offense but why would you not record the take off? isn't that usually the point of most of these videos?
O 747 da Varig
0:52 VARIG VARIG VARIG 😍😍😍
Surprised the cargo door didnt go ↪️🚪
Like, who is fron 2019
To think in those days they used to fly a DC-10 and big jets with only a few people in it.Today they would never allow that so you do not get 3 seats too your self lol
That's not really true...aircraft are right-sized to their respective routes a lot more than they were in the 1980s and 1990s, but occasionally you can strike gold. I recently flew on a BA 747-400 from JFK to Heathrow that had barely 100 people on it. If you're doing the math, that means it was about a third full, and there were seats aplenty in Economy. Sit where you like, stretch out over the middle seats. Most of us took advantage. (To be fair, this plane was on a four-hour delay, many of the other people had presumably switched to other BA flights that evening.)
Still I miss the 90s of extra space unlike now were they cramm the plane or even worse overboard it lol
@RickMakesGoodVideos I think they were retired in 2001
DC-10 - scarey
Veteranos Jatos Muito Show
on my 4th birthday
why on earth would you not record the take off!!! arrrrghhhh!!!!!!!
Rebellious and Offensive! Wuta terrible thing ta say!
no recording of the takeoff? Epic failure
Olha só o B747 da maldita Varig ali do lado
Beautiful days eh
JAL 747 new❤️❤️
Forget smoking, hang on to your dear lives flying on a DC10!
Smoking !!
Back when flying was better.
Now it’s, unfriendliness, cost cutting, and boring, cramped airplanes
Haneda is much better!!!!
Lol At least you didn't die. Seriously, that plane was a piece of shit.