Pan American Boeing 707 Promo Film - 1958
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- Опубликовано: 25 мар 2014
- Re-upped with improved colour. The classic promo, "6 1/2 Magic Hours", celebrating the very beginning of jet travel in the U.S. with a Pan Am Boeing 707-121. Thanks to the Rick Prelinger Archives.
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In the summer of 1965 I flew with my family from San Francisco west-bound on Pan-Am flight 1 around the world, ending at JFK. There were some other flights along the way, but most of it was Pan-Am 707s. I remember table cloths, real dishes and silverware, airplanes at most 50% loaded, zero security. It was a different world, and I miss it.
A different world but many more crashes in those days
Family must have been loaded then,nobody could afford that in the 1960s
Pan Am and the 707.
Two stalwarts of the aviation industry that are sorely missed.
Early jet age is so cool. It must've felt great.
It was a really special occasion! When I was just a tyke, American Airlines had a promotion in the early 1970's where you could fly on a 727 and circle twice over Cincinnati for something like $15. My Mom sent me and one sister up for the first time and I loved it. Then as I came to be older and a bit more mobile with treks from SFO to JFK or Newark and back, such wonderful things like turbulence were introduced to me! Thankfully, I got over that after a few years and it doesn't freak me out as much as it used to. Even extreme turbulence doesn't mean the plane is going down! Sweaty palms, yes but hysteria - not anymore. One of my other sisters flew back from Florida on a trip during the 70's and she was decked out in a sun dress and a big floppy hat and heels (and THAT was in Economy)! Flying was something to be excited about. It didn't seem routine back then like it does now, so I understand everyone's nostalgic comments here, some of which are hilarious!
It was epic! I miss it!
One of my former squadron commanders was a Pan Am captain. And my mother’s best friend worked for and died in a Pan Am accident (Tenerife). And I’m now a Boeing 747 captain. This film was made back in the glory days of aviation!
Sounds like you are American. Since United and Delta have both retired their 747 service, do you fly for a cargo airline?
@@imonymous
This man maybe a mythomaniac...
Those were the days. The days when we had genuine breakfasts, lunches and coffee. We were greeted with courtesy. We had more seating spaces. The air-conditioning was better. Today its God knows what. Last time i flew which was two months ago, we did not even have a food tray. Food was handed it to us one stacked on top if the other. We had wooden spoons.
You can still have this experience. Flying back then was very expensive and the same price as first class today. First class on many airlines today is 10 times better than anything back then and 100 times safer and quieter.
What the general public miss understood about the old prop liners "engine warm up" before take off was really a run up to test the engine Magnetos and Propellers. The engine was usually plenty warm enough for take off by the time it got to the place of the run up. I flew the DC-6 for about 3000 hours.
Are you alive???
My Senior English teacher and her husband used to travel overseas almost every summer, first-class on Pan Am. She never stopped reminiscing about it. With two incomes and no kids, they could afford it.
AWESOME! I started flying on Pan Am in 1970 and got to see the world for 6 1/2 years! It was truly one of the best times of my life!
Lucky, lucky you! You are part of History. Such Glamour!
In 1960 we flew from LAX to London on Pan Am 707. There was a movie, Sandpipers and real meals, I was airsick. 3 mos. Later we flew from Paris to LAX on TWA. We had to make an emergency landing in Shannon Ireland due to an engine fire. We were stuck there waiting for a new plane to arrive and fly us home.
1958, my parents weren't even born yet! thank you for this really cool insight into the distant past!
I only flew 707 one time, from Chicago to Dallas in `79. They were old hat by then and I was thrilled to finally fly in one. The cabin noise was unreal compared to the more up to date long distance planes around by then, but at least Id finally had my go. That was the first and last time.
6:18 - Amazing sound-deadening technology on the new jet miraculously brought absolute silence to its comfortable interior!
Very elegant people used to travel in those days but no now, what happened? Greetings from Nogales Sonora México.
Back in those days, JFK (NewYorkCity) to LHR (London) round trip cost $6000 in today's dollar.
Every seat on that plane, was basically a business class seat.
i.e., you wouldn't have been able to afford it anyway, so you don't have any basis to compare it to today's travel.
Only 30% of today's business class tickets are sold to retail customers. The rest are company paid (40%), and frequent flyer seats (30%).
@jasonsjwou
That's probably accurate, but intercontinential flight were exceptional in their costs back then, a flight between NYC and LA would have been far far less. You are citing an exceptional cost case even for that time.
@@watershed44 not really, the price of flights in the early das was not for the average person
@@ghostrider-be9ek The USA had a HUGE middle class back during those times, so while you couldn't be working in the lowest wage tiers and afford contiguous USA flights, if you were even lower middle class (unskilled factory work) you could afford it.
Also that cost situation kept the riff raff off the planes, a good thing.
@@watershed44 im talking about the 50s and 60s - not the 70s and 80s
@@ghostrider-be9ek After the first couple of years of the jet age, even lower middle class could afford a regular jet flight from coast to coast, actually that was when the factory worker and such had the strongest earning power, so after 1960-1 what I say is still correct.
Do enjoy alot watching these old promo film's of the beginning of the passenger jet era,i flew on a Boeing 707 in late december 1969.,but it was on a Qantas boeing 707 V-Jet.We (that's my brother & sister and my parents) flew from New Zealand to Sydney in Australia,flight time was around 3 hours there & 2 & half hours back because of the tail winds.I was around 8,a very exciting time for me because it was my very first jet plane flight.
Beautiful Terminal. PAN AM.
the golden age of travel an exceptional film, thank you
I'll admit I chuckle a bit when I hear references to "Idlewild Airport." It definitely dates the era.
Very few people know where Idlewild Airport is. Or Mines field. Both very busy airports today.
Reminds me of Goodfellas
I flew to Germany on a Pan Am 707 in 1962. Charter for military types and dependents. The interior sure was stark compared with what I just viewed.
and for the most part we are still there. 70 years later
The western world is past it's peak. Many don't realise it.
This is what I call flying
Wow! Pan Am Worldport was under construction. I still can't believe this has been demolished (& I'm an Aussie). That would have been listed under National Trust/Heritage in AU.. and preserved.
I remember flying on one as a kid ... they were at the end of their life span. What I remember about them most was the smoke ... so much smoke on takeoff, LOL.
6.5 hours to Europe in 1958! Now it takes closer to nine hours.
This was truly the golden age of air travel. I traveled on Pan Am only once but the experience cemented it as my favorite airline. I wish I were around for this experience. Thank you for these videos.
good old days when u could light up and enjoy !!!!
From luxury to sardine cans, with most of the people that fly today looking like sardines. 😂
back then there was no economy... this is like business class today
First in the Atlantic, first in the Pacific, first in the Caribbean, first around the world.
Wow. Two powder rooms for women, white table cloth dining, and real food! I appreciate all of the safety features in our current jets but that type of customer service back then leaves one rather speechless today.
By the way, great video! Thanks for sharing!
I still have decks of playing cards that were complimentary hand outs. You can't even get a complimentary drink of water now.
It was fun to be a Jet-Setter way back then!
@phillyslasher I think a lot of people who are commenting did forget about how very expensive it was to fly back then
I watched a film on a wide cinema screen during a flight from Kabul to Moscow on board Boeing-727 in 1980-s.
Outstanding thank you .I loved pan am.my first flight .6 years old
1951/52to Europe
I think my first jet trip 1957 ??????..0r 62
.I was very spoiled on pan am
Mel Newport Oregon USA
Wonder what would happen to all that food if they hit some clear air turbulence! 707 jets weren't all that quiet either.
It is really good to see
Thanks for sharing rare and amazing video.
Was I suddenly struck deaf or does the sound cut out about half way through?
definitely stuck deaf. periodically throughout the video
The second one
Yep, cutting in and out
Unfortunately
I guess the sound track was edited in order to cut the music because of RUclips rules.
LOL !!!! These promo films remind me of what it is like to fly today.
Elizabeth was already queen!! she's seen the whole aviation age 😱
Sorry, the aviation age started with her grandfather in charge!
Just... Just.... Just AMAZING! LOVE IT!
When travel was enjoyable,,,
@phillyslasher It was more enjoyable. Don't exaggerate about all the crashes. I started flyting in 1954; my father parents started in 1946 and nothing happened.
People lived in early jet age were so lucky back then, most aircrafts were propeller-based and the Jet Age is giving a new wings to fly, NYC to London in the same day. Larger Steamship-liner took them about 1 week.
Beautiful shots
Look at the comfort in those days . Now we are herded on like cattle
reffoelcnu alouncelal depends on the price you pay. You get what you pay for
You were paying a fortune back then. Today flying is relatively inexpensive.
You can still have this experience. Flying back then was very expensive and the same price as first class today. First class on many airlines today is 10 times better than anything back then and 100 times safer and quieter.
You got to remember it was also more expensive to fly. Although it looks like a similar price you need to see how much that is work now. Simply said it was basically all first class you can still fly with all that luxury you expect in the 21 century but you have to pay the price for first class.
Many international flights still have the single class seating. Seating and service is always better, than the equivalent domestic airline. But many internationals are state run or at least state sponsored (seats are subsidized for national prestige).
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In the start of the jet-age they had separate aircraft for first- and tourist class pax. The first class a/c had a config of 116 seats, and the tourist class a/c had a 180 pax lay out. I think that may have changed in the mid 60s when they made an all in one a/c. Out with the powder room, and in with more seats!
Golden age.
Love the hush kits 😎
Six-and-a-half magic hours! Imagine that. Where you didn't feel squeezed in like you were on a Greyhound bus with wings. New social-distancing world will bring that back.
At that time, the families wanted to look like the Kennedy family :D
It must have been very comfortable to travel in those days. Very good attention to the passengers, everything was very luxurious, of quality, it was the golden age of the jet.
And probably $5000 a ticket
Now the seats are so small that they got everyone crammed in there like sardines!
These days you get to see chicks in yoga pants!
It was the introduction of the 747 Jumbo Jet that ended the days of such formal and luxurious airline traveling. I saw it on a documentary about the era of the Boeing 707. Once the enormous 747 (and the large DC-10) were introduced, passengers were able to travel in droves (thus driving down the price of a ticket). I guess that the quantity of air travel watered down (and thus ruined) the quality of air travel.
It was not just the introduction of the wide-body jets alone, My father worked for United during that golden age from 1960-1995. So as you can imagine air travel was a common discussion at the dinner table. We flew often as a family then. It was rather unusual to see another whole family or even young children fly that often at first.
According to my father it was combination of frequent of frequent-flyer miles and deregulation started the demise of the golden age and the start of discount carriers that brought people on that towards the end that even I noticed looked more like they belonged on a Greyhound than a Clipper (do they name those buses for famous dogs ?). Before anyone accuses me of being just an airline snob (I prefer airline brat), just turn on the news and hardly a month goes by that we see a an incident of bad passenger behavior causing a forced landing or pre/post flight arrest due to adults behaving like out of control juveniles.
Soon even the big original carriers like United just went for the bottom dollar when they stopped thinking of themselves as airlines and started calling themselves travel companies and spread their portfolios into hotels, car rental companies, and other peripheral industries that made them focus less on the quality of the passenger care and more on the bottom line of increasing yearly revenues in order to compete with the airlines that paid employees minimum wage both on the ground and in the air.
Got to love the 50’s 🤣😂.
Wow! I've flown 707's on TWA WA and a Western 720 ANC to HNL Loved the Captains Halfway Sweepstakes! Flying used to be a class act!
Re-upped is much better! Good job, love your videos.
Thanks a bunch, I appreciate it!
Great video ..)))) I love it
N707PA !!! The first one for Pan Am!
Great Job.............
Back then the 707 was powered by Pratt & Whitney JT3C-6 turbojets. They were underpowered and required water injection to deliver thrust at takeoff and landing. This would be alleviated by the later JT3D-3 turbofans with which 707 operators, including Pan Am, would replace the older engines.
was there a better alternative back then?
What's next... A 45 min flight..? YES
I love this kind of airlines doc, look 7:44, today you can obtain a coke + sandwich for Us30 and could be happy like that girl.
The 707 (on which I have never flown), and to a somewhat lesser extent the MD DC-8, was essentially the eponym of 'the jet age' and Pan Am of 'the jet set' - but in the case of the former it is virtually impossible to explain, and, beyond an historical intellectual appreciation, to UNDERSTAND the very sensibility of its dominion over a single glorious decade. To those of us on the other side of the 747 (Boeing's singular act of design genius which has never been matched and which in a single swoop rendered the 707 irrelevant), the 707, which WAS the 747 of its period, seems quaint, a prologue of sorts to the REAL world of wide body, long range, globe revealing travel on board 747s, DC-10s and L-1011's. Watching this film we are reminded of what a revelation it was, a single technology authoring an entire mindset. It may not have been the first passenger jet, but it WAS the one who flew around like it owned the place...because it DID.
Re-upped in much better colour; got rid of a lot of the green, whites are whiter, etc.
Awesome
The engines back then were very noisy. They had a crackling roar during take off. Even when they were taxiing they had a high pitched shriek.
60 years later, it take longer for the same route and airplanes are slowing further in the future
Yes jets are slower now. Efficiency is now more important than raw speed.
Its CalLEd EnVironMenTalisM
I honestly hope planes get faster in the future-although it will never happen.
We went from this "elegance" if you will to the likes of Spirit airlines/"Airbus".😉😊
I love Spirit! You get what you pay for!
How about uploading this video with a complete audio track.
It keeps cutting out.
We were so civilized back then.
Ah, yes. Trooping the colours for Queen Elizabeth the second in 1958. I wonder how long she's going to last...
It is interesting that the speed of the plane has not changed much since 1958. Hope it was faster so we do not have to spend lots of time on the plane.
Today the real losses are at the airports at both ends. Last year I noticed a considerable improvement with more electronic scanning. But then we added security scans to take ever more time. 6 1/2 hours of flying plus 6 1/2 hours of parking, queuing, passport control, waiting for the flight, Boarding. Then at the other end deplaning, walking through miles of corridors, waiting for the baggage, more immigration control, customs inspections, then finally finding some way to get from the airport to somewhere you wanted to be.
Never heard about the sound barrier speed, about 750mph ?
En El Salvador yo ví por primera vez un avión de panam cuando tenia 7 años como en 1977. Ahora siempre disfruto volar en aviones modernos desde El Sal-Mia- Was por American Airlines. Me encanta viajar 2 veces al año a USA en un 737-800
Mejor quedarte en casa?
We now do Pan American Flight 1000 is now on Microsoft FSX.
In what? -120? -120B? -320? -320B/C?
I ask you this because I have a bunch of Boeing 707s with various types in my FSX ...
Flying at that time was only for the very rich. It was unbelievable expensive to fly transatlantic. So no wonder the food service was great (remember no flight entertainment system!)
Bullshit. TWA had food and service like that in the 80’s flying from Cali to NY. We were middle class.
gsxerwhite This is the 1950s/1960s totally different situation than the 1980s
@@gsxerwhiteGeez!! Are you angry?
The golden age of air travel.
When people knew how to dress appropriately and act accordingly.
Can we please go back to those days?
And when jets roared and poured smoke, unapologetically. And it was considered glamorous! And wasn't it so?!
@@iamra_n3189 and when tickets costed twice today's first class, and when you had to dress up for going out, and when people have you cancer in the cabins from smoking... So much for the golden age more of a stupid age
@@misham6547 indeed, what you say is mostly true. But when the first thing you write about the price of first class tickets and your disdain towards higher standards of dress, then you really have missed the point on the glory of aviation. I’m not saying we should go back, either, for the obvious reasons you mentioned.
What is the machine at 1:34?
Love these old videos!! The sound dropped out at 6:16 ... is that true, or is it just something wrong with my internet connection? Came back at 7:19.
Nowadays, people just care about getting from point a to point b as fast as possible and that’s it.
Back then, Elizabeth already was the Queen. For me it was another World.
Shame about the sound cutting out
😂😂😂flying down the wrong way over the Thames, opposite direction to LHR
11:47 YEAH BABY!
Had jet lag not yet been understood, or did the booming announcer just "forget" to mention it?
Dang....the food
You can still have this experience. Flying back then was very expensive and the same price as first class today. First class on many airlines today is 10 times better than anything back then and 100 times safer and quieter.
That voice! I’m pretty sure it’s Paul Frees.
Listening to the whole thing, I think it’s not. But in his style. Enjoyable regardless!
Airlines you need to think that plane travel was quicker and more luxurious then ...come on get it sorted ..
Pan Am went down hill after deregulation.
It’s 2022 and the queen is still the same!
Hahaha
When air travel was a pleasure - when price kept out overcrowded drunken peasants -
dc-8 had more space inside.... 707 began that small space era
Boeing 747 and dc 10 had more space
Nice last flight I was on I got a bag of peanuts sitting in between two fat guys
You're lucky you didn't get squashed!😂😂
Not sure about as quiet as prop planes !
😀
sooooooooo moooodern! As time goes
I held 100 shares of their stock until it went to zero. I went down with the ship. And so it goes...
Bombardier, same. (except it was 7,000 shares)
How is it that the 707 was faster than commercial airplanes today? I thought current planes have more powerful engines.
Between 1975 and 2005, the price of jet fuel became six times more expensive, adjusted for inflation. Flying slower is more economical.
Smoking a cigarette on the airplane and kids are sitting near by. wow Totally different thought of value back then. Interesting!
Rover spotted at 2:45
So many people are missing the 50's and the 60's: decent clothing, service, respect, food. All this still exists: in the First Class. What has changed is the degradation od the middle class od the society: more and more professionals must fly coach. The rich are getting richer, the poor are geting poorer and guess where the dwindling middle class goes to?
recall that this was for the RICH only - prices were very high at the time
This is what they took from us.
You can still have this experience. Flying back then was very expensive and the same price as first class today. First class on many airlines today is 10 times better than anything back then and 100 times safer and quieter.
we are still at the same speed for the most part. Why
Yes, but they were a bit faster in the late fifties.
sound problem !
Narrator sounds like Malachi Throne.
i haver'ing onde yaers old, rsrs
Those days when passengers were honor guests and treated like human beings, not like sardines...
If you want to be treated like that, pay for a first class ticket. There’s a reason why middle class can fly today!
@@jacyborreaux919 I don't think so
You can still have this experience. Flying back then was very expensive and the same price as first class today. First class on many airlines today is 10 times better than anything back then and 100 times safer and quieter.
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