I was a teenager the first time I flew on a plane and landed at Stapleton as a stop-over on the way to Chicago in the late 1980's. I remember Stapleton airport being quite busy. With the exception of the control tower, it's hard to believe this entire transportation infrastructure is totally gone. The only proof that it ever existed are maps, pictures, films, and videos. Probably most, if not all of those planes in the video are retired and no longer flying. A gem video, thanks for uploading.
Loved Stapleton airport, lots of great memories - snowstorms, frigid cold back around the years this video was taken. So wonderful to see the airlines which are no longer with us, the old liveries, the older plane models... That 737-200 was a cute chubby plane! Helped to spark many memories. Grew up in Massachusetts in the 70's/80's and my mum used to take my brother and I to Boston Logan airport to watch the planes take off and land and eat at the cafeteria. I'm sure your little girl enjoyed these trips as well. What fun times and what a great time it was to be alive. Thank you!
Now this is my Denver airport, since I moved in 1990! Miss Continental Airlines. That little girl has to be about 34 now. How time flies! I remember eating at a restaurant along the runway, listening to the tower when I was a kid🙂
I love your videos! They remind me of the 90's where I also took my kids to the apron to spot planes! Clarissa should be the same age as my daughter now! My son has become an ATC controller, he had an overdose of spotting in his childhood😄👍
Love all of your Stapleton videos!! I used to sit in the same places along the runways spotting for hours. Used to hang out in the airport just watching airplanes. Great videos, takes me back. Thank you!
Grew up in Denver... Went to high school with a guy with the last name of "Moe." Went and hung out with him more than once out at the viewing area off the Stapleton runways, planespotting. My dad worked for Untied, his dad worked for Frontier... :-) (Just sayin' it's a small world...)
Awesome. I remember as a kid I got to fly on frontier several times. Remember when United, Continental, and frontier all had a Hub at Denver? Good times! I miss the Golden Tail.
Love your videos they really bring back great memories when I was a kid traveling ! :) You should do a 2022 video of plane spotting with your daughter now days ! :)
Thanks for sharing this!!! It reminds me my childhood spotting planes at SSA, great to see again 737-200 and A300. Curiosly the DC10 from UA were the - 10, here Varig had the - 30 variant.Regards.
Carissa looks almost exactly like my daughter. Ironically, she’s probably just about the same age as my wife. My daughter seems to love airplanes also.
It's funny to watch these video's, especially knowing that currently your daughter is probably 24 or 25 years old? Hahaha 😁 love the late 70's Ford car! Maybe a Fairmont? Hahaha 😁 😊❤
@patrickflohe7427 I purchased my 1978 Fairmont Futura brand new and I'm 99% sure it was the first year of the Fairmont? My Fairmont Futura had the 302 V8 2 barrel carburetor which was the largest engine option for that car! I think it produced maybe 120 or 130 hp? All I know is that it couldn't get out of it's own way hahaha 😅 terribly slow and gutless car! The car I traded in on the Fairmont was my very first car I ever bought new, 1976 Ford Mustang ll and it also had the same 302 V8 2 barrel carburetor but it was just a tad quicker eventhough it had the same hp rating as the Fairmont but it was a little lighter so it had a little better response! That Mustang was a terrible car! Near lemon statue! Always Always electronic ignition problems! I loved the look and feel of the car but it rarely ran well which was so unfortunate 😕 I can say the same fir the Fairmont! Build quality was atrocious to say the least. Those were really bad years for automakers, especially in quality control.
@@robertalbertson889 Yeah, I would’ve guessed around ‘80, so I was fairly close on that. Mom & Dad ordered a pretty well optioned ‘79 Olds Delta 88. It was a great car. It had a peppy Olds 350 with 4 barrel. They still had it when I left for the Air Force in July of ‘84. I had a ‘64 Chevy Bel Air, & it was much less peppy with a 283 2 barrel….but not bad. One of my brothers used it as a work car when I left for the Air Force. When I returned from England, but still in the Air Force, I stopped by my parents place in Michigan….Plan was to visit along the way to Sacramento. I bought Mom‘s Oldsmobile, and hit the road with nearly everything I owned in it. I drove that thing for about another 15 years, brought my kids home from the hospital in it. It would chirp the tires. I towed a 25’ travel trailer with it for a couple of years.
You have some excellent vintage videos. What camcorder did you use then? I used to watch planes there back in 1987 when I lived in Westminster which is a suburb of Denver.
@@aeromoe Thanks for posting these videos. I was most likely in at least one of those Mesa aircraft. I really didn't remember that there were still so many turbojets at that time.
Pugsly and Carissa….pretty cool. Awesome to see the old Continental colors, and United too. I didn’t care much for the later Continental colors. I hate the new United, looks like Continental.
I was a teenager the first time I flew on a plane and landed at Stapleton as a stop-over on the way to Chicago in the late 1980's. I remember Stapleton airport being quite busy. With the exception of the control tower, it's hard to believe this entire transportation infrastructure is totally gone.
The only proof that it ever existed are maps, pictures, films, and videos. Probably most, if not all of those planes in the video are retired and no longer flying. A gem video, thanks for uploading.
Loved Stapleton airport, lots of great memories - snowstorms, frigid cold back around the years this video was taken. So wonderful to see the airlines which are no longer with us, the old liveries, the older plane models... That 737-200 was a cute chubby plane! Helped to spark many memories. Grew up in Massachusetts in the 70's/80's and my mum used to take my brother and I to Boston Logan airport to watch the planes take off and land and eat at the cafeteria. I'm sure your little girl enjoyed these trips as well. What fun times and what a great time it was to be alive. Thank you!
Never flew into Stapleton but I did get a chance to fly Midwest Express.
Used to drive up from COS, just to watch planes, roam the terminal, and collect timetables, just after getting my drivers license. Miss those days!!!
The best part was walking up and down the concourses and watching the action up close!
Thank you for this great video. I used to go to college in Colorado from 1988-1992 and I enjoyed flying into and out of Stapleton.
Glad you enjoyed it!
love the sound of the DC-10 taking off
Now this is my Denver airport, since I moved in 1990! Miss Continental Airlines. That little girl has to be about 34 now. How time flies! I remember eating at a restaurant along the runway, listening to the tower when I was a kid🙂
I love your videos! They remind me of the 90's where I also took my kids to the apron to spot planes! Clarissa should be the same age as my daughter now!
My son has become an ATC controller, he had an overdose of spotting in his childhood😄👍
That UA DC10 18:41 to 19:24 😍 I miss that sound! Used to live by Stapleton and I’d watch these planes take off every single day after school.
Spent a lot of time at Stapleton watching planes as a teen. Just think we did just fine back then without our cell phones lol
Cool video. Lots of history here.
Love all of your Stapleton videos!! I used to sit in the same places along the runways spotting for hours. Used to hang out in the airport just watching airplanes. Great videos, takes me back.
Thank you!
The restaurant with the “plane crash” had a great parking lot for spotting.
Where is Carissa a pilot at now a days?
Absolutely love this!
I love the 727s and 737-200s.
Awesome, to see the NWA 727!
Wish I could see a UAL or NWA 747, and a 757 in this view.
Grew up in Denver... Went to high school with a guy with the last name of "Moe." Went and hung out with him more than once out at the viewing area off the Stapleton runways, planespotting. My dad worked for Untied, his dad worked for Frontier... :-) (Just sayin' it's a small world...)
Awesome. I remember as a kid I got to fly on frontier several times. Remember when United, Continental, and frontier all had a Hub at Denver? Good times! I miss the Golden Tail.
Love your videos they really bring back great memories when I was a kid traveling ! :) You should do a 2022 video of plane spotting with your daughter now days ! :)
Thanks for sharing this!!! It reminds me my childhood spotting planes at SSA, great to see again 737-200 and A300. Curiosly the DC10 from UA were the - 10, here Varig had the - 30 variant.Regards.
Hard to believe that little girl is in her 30s now! Time flies!
Love 727s!
Carissa looks almost exactly like my daughter. Ironically, she’s probably just about the same age as my wife. My daughter seems to love airplanes also.
Simpler liveries with stripes often running the length of the fuselage across the windows, don't see much of that anymore!
Nice video! I was wondering if British Airways to London and Lufthansa to Frankfurt had services from Stapleton in the early 90s ?
It's funny to watch these video's, especially knowing that currently your daughter is probably 24 or 25 years old? Hahaha 😁 love the late 70's Ford car! Maybe a Fairmont? Hahaha 😁 😊❤
I didn’t think they had Fairmont cars in the 70s….maybe the late 70s, but I was thinking 80s.
Carissa would be over 30 now.
@patrickflohe7427 I purchased my 1978 Fairmont Futura brand new and I'm 99% sure it was the first year of the Fairmont? My Fairmont Futura had the 302 V8 2 barrel carburetor which was the largest engine option for that car! I think it produced maybe 120 or 130 hp? All I know is that it couldn't get out of it's own way hahaha 😅 terribly slow and gutless car! The car I traded in on the Fairmont was my very first car I ever bought new, 1976 Ford Mustang ll and it also had the same 302 V8 2 barrel carburetor but it was just a tad quicker eventhough it had the same hp rating as the Fairmont but it was a little lighter so it had a little better response! That Mustang was a terrible car! Near lemon statue! Always Always electronic ignition problems! I loved the look and feel of the car but it rarely ran well which was so unfortunate 😕 I can say the same fir the Fairmont! Build quality was atrocious to say the least. Those were really bad years for automakers, especially in quality control.
@@robertalbertson889
Yeah, I would’ve guessed around ‘80, so I was fairly close on that.
Mom & Dad ordered a pretty well optioned ‘79 Olds Delta 88. It was a great car. It had a peppy Olds 350 with 4 barrel.
They still had it when I left for the Air Force in July of ‘84.
I had a ‘64 Chevy Bel Air, & it was much less peppy with a 283 2 barrel….but not bad.
One of my brothers used it as a work car when I left for the Air Force.
When I returned from England, but still in the Air Force, I stopped by my parents place in Michigan….Plan was to visit along the way to Sacramento.
I bought Mom‘s Oldsmobile, and hit the road with nearly everything I owned in it.
I drove that thing for about another 15 years, brought my kids home from the hospital in it.
It would chirp the tires.
I towed a 25’ travel trailer with it for a couple of years.
United and Delta 757s…..I’m in heaven!
I was fueling Continental planes that day 😊
Interesting all the westbound takeoffs, I know these were typically avoided.
You have some excellent vintage videos. What camcorder did you use then? I used to watch planes there back in 1987 when I lived in Westminster which is a suburb of Denver.
I graduated from Westminster High...
@@aeromoe Thanks for posting these videos. I was most likely in at least one of those Mesa aircraft. I really didn't remember that there were still so many turbojets at that time.
Dokken "In My Dreams" playing on the car stereo. 🤘
The good old days.
Back when you could tape airplane,and nobody would harass you
757 is the prettiest of them all
9:59 A300 14:36 It sounds like one of the passengers is a little scared. 23:06 GP Express Beech 99
kid is 30 now
Yeah, probably dumped the pacifier by now.
Pugsly and Carissa….pretty cool.
Awesome to see the old Continental colors, and United too.
I didn’t care much for the later Continental colors.
I hate the new United, looks like Continental.
Me too. I loved the golden tale of continental and the happy spring time colors of United……
I was fuller for Continental