This was when we had observation decks to watch airplanes, this was when we could walk out to the gates with a friend who was flying, this was when flying was FUN...
Then Jimmy Carter deregulated the industry and every loser alive now can afford to fly. Airlines compete on price and frequency. So therefore you receive a crappy product. It's like socialized medicine and socialism in general. A proverbial race to the bottom
@@jimdep333 deregulation is quite the opposite of socialism.... It's capitalism. Let the private sector battle it out. It's pretty much what America stands for....
@@Jackal776 yes, this is made by professionals, probably footage for TV news or the like. Also, some parts are before 1974 and some later because there are British Airways Planes and the Concorde.
You should have seen it in the late 60s and 70s. I was fortunate in that my father was an officer in the Navy and through different assignments, the whole family got to fly many times during this Era. Everyone was so polite. They dressed beautifully too. There was leg room and full meal service. Everything, was a 1000x better. I even miss the cigarette and cigar smoke. Pan AM and TWA - sigh.
Man. I miss my Dad while watching this. He was working abroad all his life. Since we were little kids. Then he had his last flight back here at home with my big sis. Carrying his urn. He passed away due to liver cancer last 11/18/18.
So sad all those planes are gone all those cars of gone most of the people have gone. It looks so beautiful and futuristic even though it was the past.
I'm not gone! I'm a child of the 60's 70's I'm still kicking!! Wish I could go back. Such a great time and people were so much nicer back in those days and calmer and polite
As a kid during this Era, I was fortunate that my father was an officer in the Navy and as a result, i got to fly a lot. It's so depressing what air travel has turned into. I refuse to fly coach today. The lack of manners, hygiene, leg room, service and people who cannot fit into one seat, is just too much. No thanks, I'll pay for business or try to upgrade to first. Aa a last resort, I'll drive. That's right, I would rather drive then fly coach. You can thank President Ronald Reagan, deregulation and corporate greed for the way things are today.
9:46must have been just at the time of the BEA/BOAC merger. There's the brand new Concorde in British Airways livery, and a VC-10 newly painted in the background, and also 747s still in BOAC livery.
Wow, this looks absolutely amazing! This makes me wish I was alive during this time. What a great era of aviation! Love seeing the Boeing 747-100s/200s!
jimdep333 wow, thanks for sharing! I never had an opportunity to fly on one of those sadly. The closest I got was in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in D.C. when I got into the front of a Northwest B747-151 with the Bowling Shoe Livery. I still love to see the old videos and the older ones that still fly. Again, thanks for sharing, that was very interesting and made my morning!
As a 1980's into the mid 1990's airline employee for Continental Express then Continental after the new Denver airport was opened. So, so much has changed in this industry. I have so many memories of how things were then, paper tickets, family meeting passengers at the gate, sky caps out on the curb ready to check bags right out of your car. It's seems the faster and more sophisticated mankind becomes the more we loose. So sad that mankind can on the one hand create and engineer such marvels, and yet there is an evil waiting to undo all the progress. I'm glad I lived at a time where you could ask for a blanket & a pillow on an airplane.
My family took a 747 from LA to Honolulu in 1973! I can still remember the bright orange interior. It was so comfortable and roomy! What a beautiful experience. Everyone was so nice, and dressed beautifully. Full meal service was wonderful too. I miss everything, even the cigarette smoke!
Concorde is a thing of beauty and majesty. Happy I got to experience one in the flesh at the Museum of Flight in Seattle last week. Boarded and walked down the first aisle of seats. They are divided into two long aisles of seats.
This film footage is friggin awesome!! Man i miss the glory days of flying. Going right to the gate to see someone off or get them home, getting real metal flight attendant wings as a kid (still got mine at age 49) leg room, flying wide bodies from city to city with plenty of open seats to stretch out/sleep. Going to the airport was just awesome as a kid, now as an adult...flying cattle cars.
Wow... What awesome footage. Reminds me so much of my childhood. My dad worked at San Jose and San Francisco airports in the 60's and 70's. We used to go to the airports and plane watch all the time. To this day I still love to watch planes take off and land. Some of the aircraft in this video are awesome to see again. Thank you for this footage.
For the life of me why would somebody put a thumbs down I really believe society doesn't appreciate beautiful film sad I guess you cannot please everyone! Good job great memories!
This was an era when Pan Am and TWA were the powerhouse airlines that were truly Trans World carriers to all corners of the globe. Now? It's all about American and United. And no more jumbo jets that Pan Am and TWA were renowned for.
@@hadihatab3126 Yes, that's true, and we always got service with a smile, and decent food, and people weren't always in a crappy mood while flying the way they seem to be today, flying was actually looked at as a fun experience. TWA and Pan Am were the biggest airlines flying between the US and Europe in the 70s and early 80s. Those 2 airlines and British airways were the 3 biggest airlines for between the US and London back then
As a boy in the 70s it was when my love for airplanes began. I lived in London under the flight path for Heathrow Airport. I would often look up to see what aircraft was flying above and got familiar with the livery and type. This video brought back those early memories. Thankyou.
What a time to have been alive! Such an amazing array of Aircraft, VC10's, Trident three's, inundated with queens of the sky and the beautiful Concorde... Amazing footage!
This is probably 1972 or '73, before BOAC and BEA were merged to form British Airways. Later in the video, there is post-1976 footage, as the Concorde did not enter revenue service until that year. Not to mention that British Airways was formed in 1974 from the merger of British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and British European Airines (BEA).
What a beautiful film that encapsulated that era of flying. The music was so soothing and highlighted the joy and excitement of flying back then. Switch today its nothing but stressful along with the clientele one has to endure when company books you on a no frills airline
All the great airlines like PanAm, TWA, Eastern are long gone So glad I was able to experience flying back in the day . British Airways is still going strong and still has great service! G
Grow some big sideburns,,,comb your hair in a pompadour...get yourself a silk patterned shirt and some bell bottoms ..,replace all the bulbs in your house with colored light bulbs...use words like far out and jive turkey ..get a record player and throw on Saturday Night Fever (Vinyl of course) and dance like you’re at Studio 54 and bada Bing you’re back in the 70s!
Good point Luther, what did happen to the world? Remember the 2 great airlines...Pan Am and TWA. Both gone for ever. What a loss. Hopefully Virgin Galactic will take us to the stars soon.
Great Video! Thank you for sharing. My first flight was in a Air Canada 747 from Montreal to Miami like the one in the early part of this video. Great memories.
Wow, great to see. This was shot using Kodak 16mm film on bright sunny days with a tripod to give the HD like results. Love the early BA livery and it appears the Concorde landing procedure changed at some point in the decades that followed.
Torrance, with the big jets traveling right overhead on their way out. We'd run out of the classroom when we heard a 747 going over ... just to see !!!
No way! That’s the TWA flight center at the beginning right? I saw the (meanwhile) Hotel in real life, but soo interesting to see how it looked like… when it still was in service👀
This was when we had observation decks to watch airplanes, this was when we could walk out to the gates with a friend who was flying, this was when flying was FUN...
Then Jimmy Carter deregulated the industry and every loser alive now can afford to fly. Airlines compete on price and frequency. So therefore you receive a crappy product. It's like socialized medicine and socialism in general. A proverbial race to the bottom
@@jimdep333 -- Carter gave away the Panama Canal. Did he ever do anything positive for America?
@@jimdep333 deregulation is quite the opposite of socialism.... It's capitalism. Let the private sector battle it out. It's pretty much what America stands for....
@@jimdep333 hate much
Honestly though I couldn't have traveled to all the places I went to in my 20's if prices had been at 1970s levels
Whoever recorded this did one hell of a good job. The quality is better than some of HD videos of today.
No doubt recorded on actual film, which is much higher resolution than digital recordings.
@@Jackal776 yes, this is made by professionals, probably footage for TV news or the like. Also, some parts are before 1974 and some later because there are British Airways Planes and the Concorde.
Agree, and specially the quality is more then outstanding considering the time.
When your record a video with your phone, the image quality is a shit.
@@fernandokaiser3053 not with technology phones have today
0:54 0:59 the 747s always had the most spectacular view at the terminals before going onboard
Taken aback by the immense beauty of this film
What an absolute treasure this was to watch. Beautiful footage of the old stuff. I was salivating at all the VC10 and Trident footage
I've been a flight attendant for 30 years I started 1991 my first airplane was a DC-10 I am so blessed to have that experience!
Crazy 30 years... My parents were 20 in 1991
I recently retired from American Airlines I worked for 33 years I started my first job with pan am in 1987
You should have seen it in the late 60s and 70s. I was fortunate in that my father was an officer in the Navy and through different assignments, the whole family got to fly many times during this Era. Everyone was so polite. They dressed beautifully too. There was leg room and full meal service. Everything, was a 1000x better. I even miss the cigarette and cigar smoke. Pan AM and TWA - sigh.
Man. I miss my Dad while watching this.
He was working abroad all his life. Since we were little kids.
Then he had his last flight back here at home with my big sis. Carrying his urn.
He passed away due to liver cancer last 11/18/18.
Look at all those 747s. I’m really sad to see it go in 2023. Long live the queen of the sky’s.
0:55 1:01 2:32 3:41 3:59 4:54 5:08
So sad all those planes are gone all those cars of gone most of the people have gone. It looks so beautiful and futuristic even though it was the past.
I'm not gone! I'm a child of the 60's 70's I'm still kicking!! Wish I could go back. Such a great time and people were so much nicer back in those days and calmer and polite
@@Freebird_67 Me too !!!
Nah
Sometimes films like these make me feel like I was born in the wrong era. I wish I could have experienced these beautiful aircraft in person.
As a kid during this Era, I was fortunate that my father was an officer in the Navy and as a result, i got to fly a lot. It's so depressing what air travel has turned into. I refuse to fly coach today. The lack of manners, hygiene, leg room, service and people who cannot fit into one seat, is just too much. No thanks, I'll pay for business or try to upgrade to first. Aa a last resort, I'll drive. That's right, I would rather drive then fly coach. You can thank President Ronald Reagan, deregulation and corporate greed for the way things are today.
Every single one of those planes is a flying metal death trap by modern standards
9:46must have been just at the time of the BEA/BOAC merger. There's the brand new Concorde in British Airways livery, and a VC-10 newly painted in the background, and also 747s still in BOAC livery.
Wow, this looks absolutely amazing! This makes me wish I was alive during this time. What a great era of aviation!
Love seeing the Boeing 747-100s/200s!
I flew on an early 747 as a child. It was National Airlines aka Sun King. Half full and a huge interior. I had to be 6 or 7 yo. Had to be '71 or '72
jimdep333 wow, thanks for sharing! I never had an opportunity to fly on one of those sadly. The closest I got was in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in D.C. when I got into the front of a Northwest B747-151 with the Bowling Shoe Livery. I still love to see the old videos and the older ones that still fly. Again, thanks for sharing, that was very interesting and made my morning!
@@Delta_NWAB747fan
Flew on a TWA 747SP from St.L to Chi. Fitting -- the shorty on a shorty flight.
Tamburello_1994 wow, that’s awesome, love the SP!
You're probably lucky you weren't alive back then. You could be my age (73) with lots of physical ailments.
Funny to watch the crowd scenes. All those people walking without having their noses glued to a smartphone.
@@Z28-h2y Thing is, last time, people were more social.
As a 1980's into the mid 1990's airline employee for Continental Express then Continental after the new Denver airport was opened. So, so much has changed in this industry. I have so many memories of how things were then, paper tickets, family meeting passengers at the gate, sky caps out on the curb ready to check bags right out of your car. It's seems the faster and more sophisticated mankind becomes the more we loose. So sad that mankind can on the one hand create and engineer such marvels, and yet there is an evil waiting to undo all the progress. I'm glad I lived at a time where you could ask for a blanket & a pillow on an airplane.
I took a 747 from Honolulu to Sydney in 1976. What a magical aircraft!
My family took a 747 from LA to Honolulu in 1973! I can still remember the bright orange interior. It was so comfortable and roomy! What a beautiful experience. Everyone was so nice, and dressed beautifully. Full meal service was wonderful too. I miss everything, even the cigarette smoke!
Not a phone or iPad in sight. Beautiful.
Concorde is a thing of beauty and majesty. Happy I got to experience one in the flesh at the Museum of Flight in Seattle last week. Boarded and walked down the first aisle of seats. They are divided into two long aisles of seats.
This film footage is friggin awesome!! Man i miss the glory days of flying. Going right to the gate to see someone off or get them home, getting real metal flight attendant wings as a kid (still got mine at age 49) leg room, flying wide bodies from city to city with plenty of open seats to stretch out/sleep. Going to the airport was just awesome as a kid, now as an adult...flying cattle cars.
70s airports. Eye wetting stuff
Wow... What awesome footage. Reminds me so much of my childhood. My dad worked at San Jose and San Francisco airports in the 60's and 70's. We used to go to the airports and plane watch all the time. To this day I still love to watch planes take off and land. Some of the aircraft in this video are awesome to see again. Thank you for this footage.
Amazing footage, even without the raw sound I watched this start-to-finish and was completely lost in the abyss of nostalgia!
Stunning. It truly takes you back. Wonderful to see the Pan Am WorlPort, Pan Am 707's, and TWA terminals at JFK! And one must not forget the Concorde!
For the life of me why would somebody put a thumbs down I really believe society doesn't appreciate beautiful film sad I guess you cannot please everyone! Good job great memories!
Miami, Tampa and Palm Beach airports in the 1970's. Wish I could go back and visit. That would be a dream come true!
Thank you for that blast from the past. What a beautiful world it was.
This was an era when Pan Am and TWA were the powerhouse airlines that were truly Trans World carriers to all corners of the globe. Now? It's all about American and United. And no more jumbo jets that Pan Am and TWA were renowned for.
Scooby Carr and when flying was considered glamorous and stewardesses were like fashion models.
@@hadihatab3126 Yes, that's true, and we always got service with a smile, and decent food, and people weren't always in a crappy mood while flying the way they seem to be today, flying was actually looked at as a fun experience. TWA and Pan Am were the biggest airlines flying between the US and Europe in the 70s and early 80s. Those 2 airlines and British airways were the 3 biggest airlines for between the US and London back then
jfk airport looks so nice we began the future hope will live in space
As a boy in the 70s it was when my love for airplanes began. I lived in London under the flight path for Heathrow Airport. I would often look up to see what aircraft was flying above and got familiar with the livery and type. This video brought back those early memories. Thankyou.
All those 747's are clean and brand new.
I just stayed at the TWA hotel (the former terminal) a couple of weeks ago. So this was cool to see! Just about everything has been preserved.
1:46 wow classic cars everywhere 😍😍😍😍
Definitely a pleasure to watch. Professionally executed with wonderfully well-matched music. The 1011s in BA's colors were beautiful.
What a time to have been alive! Such an amazing array of Aircraft, VC10's, Trident three's, inundated with queens of the sky and the beautiful Concorde... Amazing footage!
This is FANTASTIC. What memories of these awesome birds. And the vid is so clear. Thanks for posting. What a gem!!
"The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone."
"Listen Betty, don't start off with your white zone shit again."
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Airplane 1980, i remembered lol
@@DanknDerpyGamer 😂
What an era..those 747s..those Concorde’s..that amazing crew..the buffet and drinks inside the plane..Where r we now...in hell
This is probably 1972 or '73, before BOAC and BEA were merged to form British Airways. Later in the video, there is post-1976 footage, as the Concorde did not enter revenue service until that year. Not to mention that British Airways was formed in 1974 from the merger of British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and British European Airines (BEA).
There are a couple of 1973/74 cars in the beginning
When the nose of the aircraft painted black.... When delay is very rare..... When we can still travel with concorde..... Such a golden era
People seemed more polite and kind. Are you seeing the same?
They certainly was
Sure no doubts
You are so right.
This is pure gold
Coolest thing I ve seen on utube in a while. 5 stars. Amazing footage!!!
What a beautiful film that encapsulated that era of flying. The music was so soothing and highlighted the joy and excitement of flying back then. Switch today its nothing but stressful along with the clientele one has to endure when company books you on a no frills airline
Awesome vid.I wish I could go back to that time
Can anyone ID the music track that is being used on this? So relaxing and peaceful to go along with the video.
All the great airlines like PanAm, TWA, Eastern are long gone
So glad I was able to experience flying back in the day . British Airways is still going strong and still has great service!
G
This is beautiful. Fantastic quality shots of BOAC 747-100s, and look at that fantastic lineup of Tridents at4:10! And just look at that VC-10 5:30!!
The Trident was the first autoland capable jet airliner.
Amazing quality for the 1970's - probably the best available - very impressed. Covers early 70's through to the late 70's possibly very early 80's.
One of those good ones was the L1011 ..for me the real aircraft .. sadly we never see that again..
I love how some of the same landmarks and buildings are intact 50 years later around LAX- Cool to see all of the classic cars too.
If there are time travellers reading this, would you please take me back to the 1970s?
Félix Veilleux-Ouellet Errm,...me too, please! Thanks!
me 3. Best decade ever.
Only so I can live through the 80s again, though, please/
Grow some big sideburns,,,comb your hair in a pompadour...get yourself a silk patterned shirt and some bell bottoms ..,replace all the bulbs in your house with colored light bulbs...use words like far out and jive turkey ..get a record player and throw on Saturday Night Fever (Vinyl of course) and dance like you’re at Studio 54 and bada Bing you’re back in the 70s!
Ok what date but you can’t reveal any info
When the mighty Boeing 747 ruled the skies.
Thank you for uploading this nostalgic footage.
I love the trip-star L1011, the favorite plane of my childhood.
0:55 “Forklift, yeah it’s over there by the baggage loader” SMASH!
A great video. Thank you very much! What happened to that world? I wouldn't call it progress!
Good point Luther, what did happen to the world? Remember the 2 great airlines...Pan Am and TWA. Both gone for ever. What a loss. Hopefully Virgin Galactic will take us to the stars soon.
@@JOECANDELA22 and Eastern National Braniff PSA Piedmont Ozark and many more
STUNNING photography, an amazing historical record
70s never will come back . i remember those day in aviation the best , sadly for us we have to adjust to the modern days .
I came here for nostalgia. That song was PERFECT (for me).
05:27 VC10. Beautiful aircraft.
And very fast. Still, it couldn't compete with the Boeing 707.
6:30 Iran before the revolution
It was much better. What kind of revolution this was?!
@@Tekirdag5984 islamic
@@gaguy1967 Believe me i am a Muslim. But this is not real Islam. Islam always orders to be better and better.
@@Tekirdag5984 The revolutionaries were radicals.
@@RandomShit169 Thats true
You are the Man... Great Music and incredible footage.... Loved it from start to finish..... 😁🇺🇲👍
I love the footage of Iran Air those were the good old days
Great Video! Thank you for sharing. My first flight was in a Air Canada 747 from Montreal to Miami like the one in the early part of this video. Great memories.
Brings back such good memories of hours spent up on the roof of the Queens building and variois LHR car parks
unbelievably beautiful. incredibly well done.
Stunning. Love the HD. Love the old birds.
1970s Dorval 2:28 👀
Awesome. So much variety then. Today is boring with all two engines
Beautiful Tri-Star and Concord clips love, love
Looks like Prestwick
John Tracey "p
Jeff Rodrigues
Look how most people dressed and the absence of obesity. I wish those days would return.
I as well
Great video! I miss the days of the jets with black smoke exhaust...
The Charles Bronson movie "Death Wish" was filmed at the TWA terminal at JFK.
newlam So was “Catch Me If You Can”, well parts of it
I loved the TWA terminal. I remember flying an L 1011 from JFK to O’Hare back in 1987.
Oh how I long for those days again! 😥
Great to see the oldies were busy in the airport.. nice great old planes..
Wow, great to see. This was shot using Kodak 16mm film on bright sunny days with a tripod to give the HD like results. Love the early BA livery and it appears the Concorde landing procedure changed at some point in the decades that followed.
Delightful footage, thanks for posting!
I remember flying on BOAC very well!
Awesome footage. Thanks for sharing.
It's really sad this doesn't have audio :(
The ambient soundtrack is very good tho
The resolution on this is unbelievable! Can’t shoot like with that digital mess today
man.... anyone wanna join me if we could just use time-machine to live in that era for a year?
Almost makes me shed a tear
It was a great time,
especially having my first job at the airport in high school while learning how to fly and getting my pilots license.
And to think that in 40-50 years our current aviation world will be the vintage era, with A340's, A380's and 747's still ruling the skies...
That's the LAX I remember. Good ole Western Airlines. "The Only Way To Fly"
love the music
Fabulous aircrafts! Tho they sure do pollute a lot and are mostly gone. I wish I could visit the 70s SO BADLY!
It was an awesome time. I would love to go back...
I miss those days. We lived in San Pedro CA durning that time,and flew Western Airlines out of LAX a lot. "THE ONLY WAY TO FLY"
And PSA
Torrance, with the big jets traveling right overhead on their way out. We'd run out of the classroom when we heard a 747 going over ... just to see !!!
@@flyingtigerline That's incredible! Did Torrance airport really have big jets around at one time? I was born too late! 😔
Beautiful footage!
5:37 beautiful shot. Has me in tears 😢😭
Quality is stunning 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Big thanks for this video 👍
incredible high quality footage from the era of grainy SD video
Alot less crowded, and alot more civilized.
0.55 chills with that 747.. they will be missed.
That airport ( OR terminal ?) in the beginning is now a TWA hotel
Man !!!! Those Tridents liked brand new.
Love the ones with the extra takeoff jet just above the centre engine.
Wonderful video, love it!
A fantastic film. Many thanks for pub.
For me...this video makes me think super deep of all the future aviation accidents to come :(
No way! That’s the TWA flight center at the beginning right? I saw the (meanwhile) Hotel in real life, but soo interesting to see how it looked like… when it still was in service👀
Ah the good old times
this is awesome Im doing an art project on airports in the 1970s this is perfect... what a find thank you
Very little if any security.