Pan Am Boeing 747-121 N741PA Clipper Sparking Wave London Heathrow ✈ Los Angeles 1986
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- Опубликовано: 21 мар 2020
- My first trip across the Atlantic was a 10 hour flight on the "polar route" (still a newish thing to do in 1986) to Los Angeles. Unlike today, the pilots made en route announcements about landmarks including Reykjavík, Iceland and Greenland. The altitude for most of the journey was 29,000 ft. As fuel was used up and the aircraft became lighter, the 747 climbed to 33,000 ft over the Grand Canyon and into California.
Inflight movies were projected onto large screens on cabin bulkheads. Headphones were basically hollow hoses plugged into small holes in the arm-rests and the entertainment system gave a choice of music channels as well as the movie. Top Gun was the main feature film shown on both legs of this trip.
Before leaving I had read somewhere an airline had been giving a free glass of champagne. Alas when I walked up the aisle to see the spiral staircase to the upper deck, the cabin crew gave me the disappointing news it was not Pan Am...
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Source Media: VHSC
Video format: PAL
4:3
Audio: Mono
Location:
North Atlantic
Recorded:
17 November 1986
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Hearing "on behalf of Pan Am" made me smile.
Absolutely Classic! Pan Am were quite simply, "The Best." I always found they flew where I needed to go and when I needed to go. The international cabin crew were a class above all other airlines....such a loss to the world of aviation and we should never forget what the world of aviation owes to Juan Trippe and his Pan Am.
Aahh, the days of “smoking sections”, when it didn’t matter where the cigarettes were. The whole plane stunk to high heaven of cigarettes.
NAME OF THE MOVIE PLAYING
I SEE NAVY
In flight movie is "Top Gun" on the projector screen..classic.
Clipper Sparking Wave N741 PA - 121, construction number 19648 was delivered to PanAm on 2-28-70, as the 12th AC. off the production line. As of May 1989 she had 76,880.63 flight hours, and 17918 take offs and landings or (cycles). Because of her high use and not having a side cargo door , she probably was broken up in the early 90's as were other PanAm first generation 747-121AC.
Thank you for all the info. Where did you get all of the details. I am looking for information about Pan Am 73, another Pan Am Boeing 747-121.
Juan T. Trip’s story was very sad. As it was the second 747 built by boeing and was the first ever 747 of Pan am.
A nice video. It brings back lots of fond memories. My first transatlantic flight was in '83, JFK-LHR on TWA. Wished it could have been on Pan Am, but still a wonderful experience. Empty seats, smoking sections (thank God that's gone); things have certainly changed 😎
Delivered to Pan Am as N741PA in 1970. To GATX/Airlog in 1990 and converted to a freighter. Reregistered as N494GX and back to N740PA in 1992. To Polar Air Cargo as N741SJ in 1993, Reregistered as N831FT in 1995. Withdrawn from use at Mobile, AL in 1996 and later scrapped.
Thanks Paul. Love these Retro Flying Memories.
Those old JT9D Engines sure sound a LOT Quieter than I remember.
I hate how when you search for Pan Am videos in RUclips you don't hardly find shit. But then a week later videos like this pop up. Why don't these come up in initial searches?
Because RUclips's search engine sucks.
Pan Am has been forgotten since 1992 people now focus on Delta and American airlines
This video is pure gold
Legendary aircraft. Great video. Thanks for uploading
Thanks for posting this. I remeber riding on that plane from HNL - LAX around that time.
This is gold
finaly pan am trip report
Fantastic! Thank you for posting. I love hearing all of the announcements, especially the Worldpass one. I remember when they had a special menu for Worldpass members that you could order in advance. I used to get the "seafood meal".
Special meals could be requested by any passenger on all airlines for dietary or religious reasons. A seafood meal was one of the standard options along with various types of vegetarian meals, kosher meals etc
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Wow absolutely incredible nostalgic video, I hope you and your family are doing well today 👍
N741PA was the 17th 747 ever built
I bet the food service was also very good back then
very cool
A blast from the past! The smoking announcements are certainly vintage. 7:34 you see Windsor Castle clearly. On final approach I thought you stopped at JFK because the land was so unpopulated. Then I saw the restaurant at LAX and I realized how built up the Los Angeles area is since 38 years!
It’s hard to beleive thst cigarette smoking was permitted on aeroplanes!
I remember as a child flying on one of these and desolately needed to go to the toilet but they were full. My dad snuck me into business class . I was amazed at the free plastic Combes razor blades, and toothpaste, brushes etc . I picked up a comb for myself , I was about 7 years old I didn’t actually realise you weren’t allowed to take one I just knew we weren’t supposed to go in the toilet . It was a different world. Pan am was the most iconic airline of the time. It’s unbelievable that just a few years later it would go bust.
Neat!
that's so awesome!!!!! great video. Thanks for posting Paul. Can you get it digitally remastered ??? it would really give it a kick, so to speak, but even without, its fabz!!!
Thank you. When the current situation improves I'll see whats possible.
Super interesting video! I was wondering if it would be possible for you to grant the permission for me to use a couple short clips of this video for a video I am making? Is there any good way to contact you?
Wonderfully done although i do have a question about it not being pan am, what did you mean by that? Other than that very well done
ahhhh i can see Top Gun 9:14!!! GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!!!!
Interestingly, you landed runway 7R at LAX. Reverse ops are kinda rare during daytime.
Reminds me trying to fly to jfk from lax where mike gross ( dad from family ties) and a Russian dipolmat where fighting over last avail 1st class seat.
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What Month and Date was it in 1986?
Excellent footage! However just a small correction, N741PA was named ‘Clipper Sparking Wave’, not ‘Sparkling’.
Thank you for letting me know. Hope to upload a video of a TWA 747 flight soon. P
@@BlueDeepSeas I’ll be sure to check it out!
Smoking rows 😂
The smoke only stays in those rows...
@@dutchy1176 Actually the smoke only reached no more than 2 rows beyond the smoking section.
Was not that long ago, but find it crazy how you could smoke cigarettes on a plane!
Why dose the plane fly so low
Departures our of airports as busy as London/Heathrow with it's busy and often congested airspace usually requires to climb out in stages, once the flights have cleared the congested airspace within a certain area of the airport they climb to their cruising altitude. You can notice that at other busy airports as well, JFK being another good example
Its heavy! Being the -100, I'm guessing it had the -7A motors fitted by then rather then the -3A's. Even so, the performance wasn't great especially on such a long leg.
To think now these cheap airlines fly 757’s overseas now. I hate ETOPS.