People were just so much nicer back then --- I remember those days we were just nicer to each other and people were more polite --- not that bad things were not happening they were but overall the lack of distractions from phones etc made us more aware of what was going on in front of us. We just were able to connect better with one another.
Thank you so much for posting this fantastic video! Boy has the comfort portion of air travel gone downhill! Now we're packed in like sardines just trying to get from point A to point B. With no thought being given to the travel portion being enjoyed.
This is for all air travel lovers out there..There were three significant commercial around-the-world record-setting flights flown by 747SP: two operated by Pan Am and the other operated by United Airlines with the aircraft being "loaned" to Friendship Foundation, in order to raise money for the foundation. Those flights are: Liberty Bell Express[5]-Flown from New York/JFK May 1-3, 1976. 2 stopovers at Palam Airport, New Delhi and Tokyo-Haneda Airport. The round-the-world flight took 46 hours and 26 minutes over 23,137 miles.[5] Pan Am Flight 50-to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pan Am. Flown October 28-30, 1977 from San Francisco, with a time duration of 54 hours, 7 minutes, 12 seconds. 3 stopovers at Heathrow Airport, Cape Town and Auckland. Flight 50 flew over both the North Pole and the South Pole. Friendship One[5]-Flown January 29-31, 1988 from Seattle, to raise funds for Friendship Foundation. Two stopovers were made, at Athens and Taipei. The record lasted less than a month, as it was beaten by a Gulfstream IV. The round-the-world flight took 35 hours and 54 minutes over 23,125 miles.[5] In 1976 a Boeing 747SP (ZS-SPA) of South African Airways was flown non-stop from the Boeing Company factory in Seattle to Cape Town during its delivery flight. This was a world record for an un-refueled commercial aircraft, this record was held for over a decade.
It would be interesting to track down Sharon Walker, 11 years old, who was a passenger and interviewed on the flight and ask her about her recollection and thoughts now.
fireflyrobert , You will have a much better chance if you try to track down a Sharon Walter as that is the name she gave. Oh and by the way this flight was not a true North South circumnavigation of our Earth. That cannot be done as the Truth about our Earth has been hidden from us for the past 500 Years. Earth is a Static Geocentric Plane not a Pear Shaped Oblate Spheroid Tilted Wobbling And Spinning In Space.. testingtheglobe.com
Hi FireFlyRobert! Can you believe some 40+ years after this flight we were cleaning up the basement and my husband found some memorabilia from this record-breaking flight that I took with my father in 1977. My husband went online to search for more details and discovered this video which I had never seen before! I still remember many details from our trip, including the faces of the passengers who were kind enough to entertain me during our journey, the warm reception we got in Auckland and CapeTown, and the Halloween costume party with the captain and crew. I earned my private pilot's license when I turned 16, but I didn't make a career out of flying. My older sister, who missed out on the Pan Am trip, is a captain flying 747s internationally for UPS. Cheers! Sharon
If getting on an airplane was the best someone could come up with for entertainment back in the 70’s I’m sure I didn’t live back then goddamn it 😂🤣🙄😒😑..................
This video omits to mention that at that time Pan Am operated a normal commercial 747 daily round the world service, PA1 and PA2. Routing varied depending on year and day of the week but a typical routing at that time would have been JFK-LHR-FRA-THR-DEL-BKK-HKG-TYO-HNL-LAX-JFK.
Record setting flights a Boeing 747-SP named Clipper Liberty Bell, broke the commercial round-the-world record set by a Flying Tiger Line. Boeing 707 with a new record of 46 hours, 50 seconds. The flight left New York-JFK on May 1, 1976, and returned on May 3. The flight stopped only in New Delhi and Tokyo, where a strike among the airport workers delayed it two hours. The flight beat the Flying Tiger Line's record by 16 hours 24 minutes.[155] Then in 1977 to commemorate its 50th birthday, Pan Am organized Flight 50, a round-the-world flight from San Francisco to San Francisco, this time over the North Pole and the South Pole with stops in London Heathrow, Cape Town Airport and Auckland Airport. 747SP-21 Clipper New Horizons was the former Liberty Bell, making the plane the only one to go around the globe over the Equator and the poles. The flight made it in 54 hours, 7 minutes, and 12 seconds, creating seven new world records certified by the FAI. Captain Walter H. Mullikin, who commanded this flight, also commanded the Liberty Bell Express! One Captain did the flight twice, each a different route and with the same plane, it was just renamed. To
You have another version of this on TH-cam published on May 22, 2013. It looks like you've cleaned up the transfer on this one. Colors are more saturated. Audio is a little cleaner, too. Getting ready for the 40th anniversary...
According to a Chicago Tribune article at the time, $3,333 for first class and $2,222 for economy. However, the 747SP was configured 8 across in Clipper Class so I think that's what 'economy' was, on that flight anyway. We bought a new Chevy around that time for 4,000 so that gives an idea of price.
@@camachinist Clipper Class (Business Class) did not exist in 1977. 1977 was still in the days when only 2 classes, F and Y, existed worldwide. Y class seating would not have been 8 across; most likely still 9 across 2 X 4 X 3 in 1977, later becoming 3 X 4 X 3.
If they did not fly across Antarctica it is not a north/south circumnavigation, by its very definition. Still, the 70’s were great, it’s all been downhill since, and getting more ridiculous daily.
Polar circumnavigation is complete navigation around Earth through both the North Pole and the South Pole.. and is recognized worldwide not sure why people want to cherry-pick this point, they're both recognized routes of travel. just like there's more than one route to get to any destination.
Joe Conrad , Hello Brother Joe, are you a closet Flat Earther? If so it is safe to come out now. I am still waiting for a True North to South circumnavigation of this supposed Pear Shaped Oblate Spheroid Tilted Wobbling And Spinning In Space. Lots of Luck seeing that. Earth is clearly a Static Geocentric Plane. Try going straight through Antarctica and exit on the other side. It won’t happen you will either die because it is infinite or you will come to the Firmament if it exists. Peace on the Plane Brother
Great video! Those were the last days of the Golden Age of civil aviation. They are long gone now. May they rest in peace.
Great video. Pan Am was the true aviation pioneer.
People were just so much nicer back then --- I remember those days we were just nicer to each other and people were more polite --- not that bad things were not happening they were but overall the lack of distractions from phones etc made us more aware of what was going on in front of us. We just were able to connect better with one another.
Great video brings memories and tears.. Best job ever working for Pan Am..
Loved IT. Thank you.
Are all of us here serious PanAm nerds?🤗
Thank you so much for posting this fantastic video! Boy has the comfort portion of air travel gone downhill! Now we're packed in like sardines just trying to get from point A to point B. With no thought being given to the travel portion being enjoyed.
Wow!
7 years after that flight I’d be working on these.
They ended up in United’s Docks 1 + 2. Shown in the SFO takeoff 05:27
This is for all air travel lovers out there..There were three significant commercial around-the-world record-setting flights flown by 747SP: two operated by Pan Am and the other operated by United Airlines with the aircraft being "loaned" to Friendship Foundation, in order to raise money for the foundation. Those flights are:
Liberty Bell Express[5]-Flown from New York/JFK May 1-3, 1976. 2 stopovers at Palam Airport, New Delhi and Tokyo-Haneda Airport. The round-the-world flight took 46 hours and 26 minutes over 23,137 miles.[5]
Pan Am Flight 50-to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pan Am. Flown October 28-30, 1977 from San Francisco, with a time duration of 54 hours, 7 minutes, 12 seconds. 3 stopovers at Heathrow Airport, Cape Town and Auckland. Flight 50 flew over both the North Pole and the South Pole.
Friendship One[5]-Flown January 29-31, 1988 from Seattle, to raise funds for Friendship Foundation. Two stopovers were made, at Athens and Taipei. The record lasted less than a month, as it was beaten by a Gulfstream IV. The round-the-world flight took 35 hours and 54 minutes over 23,125 miles.[5]
In 1976 a Boeing 747SP (ZS-SPA) of South African Airways was flown non-stop from the Boeing Company factory in Seattle to Cape Town during its delivery flight. This was a world record for an un-refueled commercial aircraft, this record was held for over a decade.
N533PA was broken up after serving with United for plenty of years in JAN95.... Sad that they didn't preserve it somewhere
18:26 crazy to think you are looking at a guy born in 1895
It's a shame PAN AM never preserved one 747 in it's museum, an amazing pioneer
was a great source of comfort when the non-smoking sign went off -- and everyone would light up and relax !!!!
It would be interesting to track down Sharon Walker, 11 years old, who was a passenger and interviewed on the flight and ask her about her recollection and thoughts now.
fireflyrobert , You will have a much better chance if you try to track down a Sharon Walter as that is the name she gave. Oh and by the way this flight was not a true North South circumnavigation of our Earth. That cannot be done as the Truth about our Earth has been hidden from us for the past 500 Years. Earth is a Static Geocentric Plane not a Pear Shaped Oblate Spheroid Tilted Wobbling And Spinning In Space.. testingtheglobe.com
Hi FireFlyRobert! Can you believe some 40+ years after this flight we were cleaning up the basement and my husband found some memorabilia from this record-breaking flight that I took with my father in 1977. My husband went online to search for more details and discovered this video which I had never seen before! I still remember many details from our trip, including the faces of the passengers who were kind enough to entertain me during our journey, the warm reception we got in Auckland and CapeTown, and the Halloween costume party with the captain and crew. I earned my private pilot's license when I turned 16, but I didn't make a career out of flying. My older sister, who missed out on the Pan Am trip, is a captain flying 747s internationally for UPS. Cheers! Sharon
I was thinking the same thing too!
OMG!! She actually saw it and replied fascinating🎉🎉😊
@@sharonwalter5493 fantastic!
#FirstCustomers For #Boeing747 In The Worlds!!!
If getting on an airplane was the best someone could come up with for entertainment back in the 70’s I’m sure I didn’t live back then goddamn it 😂🤣🙄😒😑..................
This video omits to mention that at that time Pan Am operated a normal commercial 747 daily round the world service, PA1 and PA2. Routing varied depending on year and day of the week but a typical routing at that time would have been JFK-LHR-FRA-THR-DEL-BKK-HKG-TYO-HNL-LAX-JFK.
Me and my mother did the around the world flight ✈️ in 1976 on the liberty flight ✈️ I wish we could have flown in 1977 they flew the other way
Record setting flights a Boeing 747-SP named Clipper Liberty Bell, broke the commercial round-the-world record set by a Flying Tiger Line. Boeing 707 with a new record of 46 hours, 50 seconds. The flight left New York-JFK on May 1, 1976, and returned on May 3. The flight stopped only in New Delhi and Tokyo, where a strike among the airport workers delayed it two hours. The flight beat the Flying Tiger Line's record by 16 hours 24 minutes.[155] Then in 1977 to commemorate its 50th birthday, Pan Am organized Flight 50, a round-the-world flight from San Francisco to San Francisco, this time over the North Pole and the South Pole with stops in London Heathrow, Cape Town Airport and Auckland Airport. 747SP-21 Clipper New Horizons was the former Liberty Bell, making the plane the only one to go around the globe over the Equator and the poles. The flight made it in 54 hours, 7 minutes, and 12 seconds, creating seven new world records certified by the FAI. Captain Walter H. Mullikin, who commanded this flight, also commanded the Liberty Bell Express! One Captain did the flight twice, each a different route and with the same plane, it was just renamed. To
You have another version of this on TH-cam published on May 22, 2013. It looks like you've cleaned up the transfer on this one. Colors are more saturated. Audio is a little cleaner, too. Getting ready for the 40th anniversary...
Yes we recently re-transferred this to 4K resolution on our new scanner...
11:52 - Polaroid camera :-)
And yet- Pan Am was out of business by 1991.
I wonder how much those tickets cost?
3x more expensive as they are today
According to a Chicago Tribune article at the time, $3,333 for first class and $2,222 for economy. However, the 747SP was configured 8 across in Clipper Class so I think that's what 'economy' was, on that flight anyway. We bought a new Chevy around that time for 4,000 so that gives an idea of price.
@@camachinist Clipper Class (Business Class) did not exist in 1977. 1977 was still in the days when only 2 classes, F and Y, existed worldwide. Y class seating would not have been 8 across; most likely still 9 across 2 X 4 X 3 in 1977, later becoming 3 X 4 X 3.
If they did not fly across Antarctica it is not a north/south circumnavigation, by its very definition. Still, the 70’s were great, it’s all been downhill since, and getting more ridiculous daily.
Polar circumnavigation is complete navigation around Earth through both the North Pole and the South Pole.. and is recognized worldwide not sure why people want to cherry-pick this point, they're both recognized routes of travel. just like there's more than one route to get to any destination.
Interesting there was an African American Miss Universe traveling to apartheid era SA. She handled it well it looks like.
Nice dodo airlines ad
LOL
1:34 into this video shows the route they flew ...by no means did they fly around the world
Joe Conrad , Hello Brother Joe, are you a closet Flat Earther? If so it is safe to come out now. I am still waiting for a True North to South circumnavigation of this supposed Pear Shaped Oblate Spheroid Tilted Wobbling And Spinning In Space. Lots of Luck seeing that. Earth is clearly a Static Geocentric Plane. Try going straight through Antarctica and exit on the other side. It won’t happen you will either die because it is infinite or you will come to the Firmament if it exists. Peace on the Plane Brother
@@FLATSWISS no im full blown it aint a spinning ball
@@FLATSWISS why would you say that? You wont find any north south circumnavigation
hahahahahahahahahahah, this is a true North South pole nav. You always moving your goal post. Typical flat earther
Oh Joe, how sad for you that you are so stupid. Your parents, family and teachers were so disappointed in you inability to think for yourself.