United Convair CV-340 Promo Film - 1955
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- Film from the archives of Ron Grier. Another wonderful period piece, this film extols the virtues of United's new CV-340 Mainliner! Lots of great aircraft scenes, plus many of the routes they flew at the time. Dad flew CV-340s for UAL from the late '50s up to their retirement in 1968, and he really liked the airplane. Be sure to check my channel for the best in VINTAGE & RARE airliner videos! / classicairlinerfilms
I'm old enough to be a veteran of the propeller air liners. I flew on the Convairs only a couple of times but they were a great plane. One of the best.
My dad flew the 340 for UAL back in the 50's. He also flew the DC-3/4/6/7, but the 340 was for him the best prop liner of them all.
My dad and I flew on the 340 once from LAX to Oakland as I recall. My dad refused to fly on it again because he believed four engines were the safest. The flight was fine. He had some rough flights in DC-3s back in the 40s and believe that is where he disliked the twins because of getting into air pockets at lower altitudes. Wish we could still fly in the DC-6 and Convair today. I liked the DC-6 over the DC-8 because we stayed in the sky longer due to the slower speed. Great videos and nostalgia on your channel.
Great snapshot of 1955. Thanks!
What a magnificent aircraft! I first flew on one in 1958, from Vancouver to Seattle, with a stop in Bellingham, WA. We connected to a United DC-6 "milk run" to Los Angeles: Seattle - Portland - Oakland - San Franciso - Los Angeles. I loved it! My mom went right to the ticket counter when we got to LAX, paid extra and booked a nonstop back to Seattle. In those days, nonstop flights were the premium flights! But I loved the takeoffs and landings!😁
great promo film of the classic convair-340 propliner! always liked these planes as well as the later turbo prop version. rob
There were actually THREE turboprop versions. The first was the 540, powered by Napier Eland engines, developed for Allegheny Airlines. When Rolls-Royce acquired Napier and discontinued the Eland, Allegheny later used Allison 501-D13 engines and introduced the 580. In 1965, the 600, powered by Rolls-Royce Dart RDa.10 engines, was introduced. Rolls-Royce pioneered turboprop power and today Napier and Allison are Rolls-Royce heritage companies.
Tremendous and believable voice-over / narration.
I remember when airlines flew to many more smaller towns.
I remember when Breakfast & lunch were FREE or when LUNCH and DINNER were both free on long flights !!!
J.M. Keynes.
sort of stumbled on this video. with many memories as an air force pilot flying the convair.. both for navigator training and then in airline configuration for vip and staff member transportation. like the 21st air force IG team. Loved this machine. flew it out of McGuire in 1968-70
Thank you for sharing the video. Several years ago, after my father died, I acquired 8 mm film of my dad getting onto one of these planes in Fresno when he left for the Coast Guard in the mid to late 50's. I had a difficult time trying to find the type of aircraft in my searches a few years back. I was looking for authentic engine/prop sound effects to include in the converted to digital video just to give it more dimension. Now that I know what kind of aircraft it was, I may be able to search again and find the appropriate sound instead of a B25. Though most wouldn't know the difference.
"Convair-Liners" were used by the U.S. Armed Forces for many years. ruclips.net/video/xYsxi7V_cIE/видео.html.
The golden era of flying confortably.
NO way. Today's aircraft (at least, in Business Class and above) are WAY more comfortable....with better seats, power ports for your laptops/smart phones, onboard WiFi, and lie-flat seats. The planes are much quieter, too. The planes can also travel further--eliminating what used to be 2, 3, or four-stop trips. Plus, passengers don't have to dress up in suits and hats.
Sorry, old people: Gimme a 777, 787, or A350 any day over yesterday's old jalopies.
Love it. Wonderful film!
My first few flights were taken on Piedmont Airlines Martin 404 planes that had begun their service with TWA. They were a direct competitor of the Convair 240 series. Loud, rough and slow, but they stayed in the air!
The potshots directed at the railroads were relentless.
Sad to be sure; unfortunately that is a by-product of technological progress, not to mention the fact that the airlines were purposely targeting railroad users.
Loved the Convair. Flew on Swissair, KLM and Pacific
I rode in them between Newport News and Baltimore in 1966.
Continental Airlines, which merged with United in 2010, also flew "Convair-Liners." While both airlines had the 340, Continental also had the 240 before that. Not only that, there were two other "Convair-Liner" operators that are now part of United's family tree. Continental merged with Texas International Airlines in 1982 with the combined airline retaining the Continental name. TI flew 240s and turboprop-powered 600s, a conversion of the 240 (back then it was called Trans-Texas Airways). Frontier Airlines, which merged with Continental in 1986, flew 240s, 340s, 440 Metropolitans, and the turboprop 580 and 600 conversions.
, I love this plane
I love the 1950s baby!!!
Back when flying was fun, comfortable, and you were treated like a king.
I rode that Central Valley run, LAX-SAC.
They might not have released it until 1955. but the Stratocruisers were sold to BOAC in 1954 after the Comet grounding.
I guess they could not find any footage of a DC-7 flying over Hawaii.
Perhaps it was not made in 1955, but filmed in late 1953 or early 1954 when the B-377s were still flying the route to Hawaii, and the DC-7s had not been delivered yet. The Strats only flew the Hawaii routes and one LAX-SEA nonstop daily trip, and an LAX-SFO-SEA daily trip as of August 1, 1954, when DC-7s were entering the schedule. As of that date, only DC-6s and Strats flew to Hawaii, no DC-7s.
Filmed in 1955!
@@mileswrich, United DID fly DC-7s to Hawaii after selling the Stratocruisers. The proof is found in another film produced for the airline called "Holiday in Hawaii." Here's a link to that film - ruclips.net/video/6NKcRW467bo/видео.html.
Midway in Chicago is a convenient airport, as long as your plane doesn't land short and plow into some cars and houses at the end of the runway, which happened a number of times.....still, this is a good video of a lost time.
I lived next to Midway for years and loved it.
Thanks to this movie, we now know more about pressurized cabins, how planes are beamed in safely through clouds to safe landings, the type of cargo planes take on in addition to passengers, how you can fly from the West Coast to Detroit , get a big 3 car, and drive it back through America to California and save money on the sticker price, not to exceed the 40 pound baggage limit, and so much moire! Thank You!
Excelente y magistral presentacion del CONVAIR y yo lo vivi e Venezuela con Avensa Grano de Oro Maiquetia 196o's
I remember flying on these in the 70s between Puerto Rico and St. Thomas, USVI. Anyone know the Convair type American Airlines flew?
American was the launch customer for the Convair 240.
The Sky is for...EVERYONE...the Sky is for YOU! Just be CIVIL and act like a human being instead of yappin and getting dragged off the aeroplane for your misconduct! ALL airplane passengers lives matter! The Sky is for YOU!
Where were films like this shown? Did they show them in the movie theaters before the main film?
The best things in life are FREE!
Where was these infomercials shown?
With engine on and choke breaks u can hñg in air .
Its all motor etuctions on motor berels belts. 4.8
Air bags and shield bolt handle head foot
Yes 2ith moter inductions.
21.25,,,grandad and grandma be trippin
:-) neutral
Plus and minus controls.
The airfare was cheaper railroad Pullman fare is turning point Air is demise of railroad travel
That was cool! I liked the line, "...home Sunday morning in time for church." Boy, have times changed because it ain't culturally relevant to go to church anymore, unless you really want to go. Perhaps this is why there is maybe a bit less of "loving thy neighbor, as thyself" in the world today... "And hearing this, Jesus said to them, 'It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.'" Mark 2:17
Amen.
Did someone say Lynard Skynard
Excellent Safe Aircraft, a pleasure to fly. Specially with those Magnificent Pratt Whitney R2800. The best Radial engines , So fine that they continue to Operate in Douglas DC6, And Convair 440 Today. I was lucky enough to be the last Pilot to Operate a Radial Aircraft in Mexico. We Operated 3 Convair s till 2009 in Lower Baja California. Different variant of the Convair . 2 where C 131B , And one was a CV 340 from Canada West Air . The C131B I bought From Lockheed test pilot Darryl GreenMayer.
6 on 6 with u
Neutral it
Yes, the Sky Is for Everyone! Including that 330-lb. "beauty" spilling her body mass into your area. For those screaming whining kids kicking the seat behind you. The endless joys of a 10 hour trans-Atlantic flight with over 300 other travelers blocking the aisles the entire length of the trip.
Lousy sound!
240
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5 back eried motor inducted :-)
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Thumb and fings instalet for airlines
Distance pulers :-)
'A man can fly....' Men like Amelia Earhart, Amy Johnson, Nancy Bird Walton, Edna Gardner Whyte, etc etc... Lol
Those are womens' names, not male names.
Ernest Kovach Duh! Lol
Once upon a time, the male pronoun was the accepted standard to refer to all people, it was not considered “sexist” or “pejorative”, as it is today by a very small, but very loud minority.
Everyone, so long as yer a Yankee.
I don't think the commentator had a clear grasp on how the auto pilot works - "one of the beams that pattern the sky with invisible electronic highways" GPS was the closest to what he describes and that wasn't available to the public until around 1983. A basic system in this type of aircraft would probably hold the current altitude and heading and would need to be reset every time they change altitude or heading. Still, narrators can't get aviation right today, so back then it would be no different. An enjoyable video though. Yes, aviation has changed now, the era of cheap flights. It used to be for the wealthy. In 1979 I had my first flight on a 707. The ticket price would have been around $900 dollars. My wage at that time as a 19 year old was $99 a week but I had just left my job to join the Australian airforce and as such they paid for the ticket to fly me to recruits training which was about 2600kms from my home. Most people on the flight were in suits and were all very polite and proper.
_GPS was the closest to what he describes_
Not true. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_beam#Use_for_blind_bombing
So the German aircraft had autopilot systems capable of tracking the Lorenz beam?
Not only the Germans, most European airline companies used this system before WWII.
Narrators don't write the scripts. They read them.
who's that narrating?where are all the black folks?wasn't life grand back then?....get going Crockett or we'll ship the jobs to China...
The narrator was Melvyn Douglas.
His wife , Helen, was a member of US Congress until she got beat by a crooked , corrupt, ambitious young far Right Wing fanatic named ...Richard Milhouse NIXON! He smeared her unjustly with lies in order to get the victory!
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And, if it wasn't for the legalization of abortion on-demand, there would be 30 to 40 million more blacks, which would have put them to roughly about 30% of the population. This is one of many dark secrets as to why it was legalized...
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I'm sorry, Ernie. I didn't mean to imply that all blacks are pro-abortion-- you are right, many are not! I meant the Margaret Sanger eugenics movement was aimed at this group of Americans, in the attempt to keep their populations from becoming too large. Thankfully, Jesus suffered, bled, and died for the sin of abortion because abortion, like you said, is the murder of a defenseless human being.
LOL....Were'nt allowed on these planes.