I got into aviation in the early 1990’s when my dad was a captain for emirates flying B727’s. I remember ordering justplanes dvds as a teenager because of my love for aviation. I started getting my licenses in 1999 and became an airline pilot in 2003 at a time when tens of thousands of pilots lost their jobs from 9/11, with 50% that remained facing 50% pay cuts. I still did it for my love of aviation. Fast forward to today, I own a flight school, I’ve left the airlines, most kids that walk into my school know nothing about plane spotting, most of them are getting into aviation for the money. I sat in my lobby a few months ago and asked them what are the top 3 longest range aircraft, I got back blank stares. None of them knew what a B747SP was. Great video. I was based at KORD from 2007-2011
"Despite their flaws" The DC-10 only ever had one real flaw and when that was fixed it became a very good and reliable plane, how else do you think did it remain in service for 40 years alongside the L-1011?
So, this looks like it was filmed some time in the summer of 2001. In other words...just before the horrors of 9/11 that would forever change aviation...and all of us. That made it kinda eerie to watch this. Now, with that said, I still enjoyed this look back in time. :)
Oh memories of my days at ORD. We were the busiest then,460,000 operations annually. Worked from the tower only 60 ft high. Could not see all of the airport. Remember the supervisor we called, "Bear"! And that old cramped IFR room. 2 departure and 2 arrival positions.
@@thomashoefnagels8519 While the Swiss certainly had their part in the demise of Sabena, it's a stretch to say they 'dragged them down'. Let's not forget Sabena had already been 'down' for 35 years by the time Swissair came along. In the 35 years from 1960 until the time Swissair bought itself in (1995) they had been profitable for two of them. Two. Sabena was a bottomless pit, with at the time two recently failed marriages (first to British Airways and KLM, then to Air France). This wasn't a case of Swissair buying a healthy company and then ruining it, it was them buying a company that had been in and out of intensive care for 35 years, and then thinking they could grow it back to health. Swissair finally ran the company into the ground by growing the airline at a ridiculous pace (30% per year!) in the late 90s, but ironically you could say that without Swissair, Sabena would've gone under in 1995 or 1996.
I love this video, it's great to see for once so many American Airlines planes especially the 767-223s and 767-223ERs as well as well as the 727s. The AA Tri-bar polished metal livery never gets old. I wish more videos today featured this variety of American and United planes versus mostly foreign airlines.
The Aeroflot takeoff on 32L at 3:49-4:34 is the longest roll I've ever seen a 767 do. Must've been at (or above!) maximum certified gross weight, on a hot day.
Phenomenal footage as usually, JP! If this was 2001, it must be in either January or early February as United retired its last DC-10s by Feb. 15, 2001. Also see a Delta L-1011 in there and those were all gone by mid August, 2001.
@@20PINKluvr, I agree. This had to be the summer of 1999 at the latest per when Sabena parked their 747-300’s. I live in Chicago was actually working at ORD for United at the time. There’s zero chance this is January or February.❄️
Wonderful video, really takes me back to visiting O'Hare in the '90s! Thank you for posting it. Having grown up near O'Hare in the '80s and '90s, I'm sure this video is not from 2001, though. Some of the planes seen here could not have been seen as late as then. One example is the Aeroflot 767-300 seen throughout this video, reg EI-CKD, which was traded to TWA by Feb of 2000. Another case is the elderly United 737-200 reg N9045U (landing at 51:57), which went into storage in July of 1998, and is believed to have been scrapped sometime in 2001. Love your videos...you keep posting, I'll keep watching!
is this really ohare? cause thats a LOT of farmland in the background, not to mention at 6:10 i see military tanker aircraft, and i dont think ohare was ever an air base in 2001
@@alexcook2206 i think this is more like 1997-1998 for reasons stated above by Chad Kornack but it is most certainly ORD since I recognize the terminals and runway environments.
@@alexcook2206 The stripes on the jetways for American Airlines' terminal also are a good hint that it is ORD - IDK of anywhere else where American did that.
What's with all the dislikes? Haters, if you don't like these old planespotting videos, you probably shouldn't be watching old planespotting videos. Great stuff!
GREAT plane spotting was at MDW in its heyday. Oh, the DC-7s, DC-6s, DC-4, DC-3s, Constellations (all of 'em), Convair 340 and Martin 404, Boeing Stratocruiser, Viscount, Electra - WOW! And the air lines: Braniff International, Capital, Northwest Orient, Eastern, Air Wisconsin, Ozark, Piedmont, TWA! All from the safety of the roof-top observation deck. THAT was the day, folks!
I live in the midwest and when you look at the grass and trees it looks like all of this was before 9/11. Post 9/11 things would’ve been “less green” because of fall colors
You reminded me that I have flown on one of them. I wish I could remember exactly which 747 I've flown on everytime. I think the only other 300s I got to enjoy were Air India amd Swissair.
Looks like Runways 22R, 9L, 27R, 32L from Tango 10, and 32R are the actives. Old Runway 18/36 appears prior to being closed and converted into a taxiway. This is the north side of the field and except for runway 32L, they are the original four runways. 14R/32L was the first runway built for jets.
Do you know where the person was standing to film this? The only place I can think of is on the top of the parking garage for the first part of the video.
I think everyone remembers these times, back when the 747 was the largest plane in the world and one of the most common wide-bodies before the similarly sized 777-300ER was introduced and soon to replace nearly all of these 747s!
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I wish 747s were still as common as they were back then
Everyone wish this. Even me
There still common at ORD bte
@@nowee_playzz4931 he mean passenger
go to Anchorage like 80% of the traffic there is 747s
I wish the 727s were still as common as they were back in the day 💯💯💯💯💯💯
I got into aviation in the early 1990’s when my dad was a captain for emirates flying B727’s. I remember ordering justplanes dvds as a teenager because of my love for aviation. I started getting my licenses in 1999 and became an airline pilot in 2003 at a time when tens of thousands of pilots lost their jobs from 9/11, with 50% that remained facing 50% pay cuts. I still did it for my love of aviation. Fast forward to today, I own a flight school, I’ve left the airlines, most kids that walk into my school know nothing about plane spotting, most of them are getting into aviation for the money.
I sat in my lobby a few months ago and asked them what are the top 3 longest range aircraft, I got back blank stares. None of them knew what a B747SP was.
Great video. I was based at KORD from 2007-2011
Thanks for sharing your story
You have to admit, despite their flaws - the DC10 is a good looking plane
On of my favorites. I like the MD11 as well
Do I though???
"Despite their flaws" The DC-10 only ever had one real flaw and when that was fixed it became a very good and reliable plane, how else do you think did it remain in service for 40 years alongside the L-1011?
Miss the old days of aviation loud aircraft everywhere so much variety
These old plane spotting videos are great
I wasn’t even born then and this is still nostalgic...
757s with the chrome American livery where just perfect!
So, this looks like it was filmed some time in the summer of 2001. In other words...just before the horrors of 9/11 that would forever change aviation...and all of us. That made it kinda eerie to watch this. Now, with that said, I still enjoyed this look back in time. :)
Oh memories of my days at ORD. We were the busiest then,460,000 operations annually. Worked from the tower only 60 ft high. Could not see all of the airport. Remember the supervisor we called, "Bear"! And that old cramped IFR room. 2 departure and 2 arrival positions.
50:14 that’s the best 777 landing I’ve ever seen. Just exceptional how the crew eased that bird onto the runway!
Buenísimo. Excelente. Me gustó mucho. Desde Argentina. 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
3:35 low budget painting
Brick Life It’s just old
Anakin Skywalker, You know he means the Livery of the NORTHWEST CARGO 747 right?
Livery plugin wasn't installed correctly.
Sabena... my Belgian heart is still bleeding :(
Yea me to, this is the fault of Swissair they dragged them down. :(
@@thomashoefnagels8519 While the Swiss certainly had their part in the demise of Sabena, it's a stretch to say they 'dragged them down'. Let's not forget Sabena had already been 'down' for 35 years by the time Swissair came along. In the 35 years from 1960 until the time Swissair bought itself in (1995) they had been profitable for two of them. Two. Sabena was a bottomless pit, with at the time two recently failed marriages (first to British Airways and KLM, then to Air France).
This wasn't a case of Swissair buying a healthy company and then ruining it, it was them buying a company that had been in and out of intensive care for 35 years, and then thinking they could grow it back to health. Swissair finally ran the company into the ground by growing the airline at a ridiculous pace (30% per year!) in the late 90s, but ironically you could say that without Swissair, Sabena would've gone under in 1995 or 1996.
I still remember flying on the Air India Boeing 747-400 (seen in 5:36) back in 2008.
Seeing old footage is a kind of fun.
Like some old retro livery and old aircraft.
Its amazing💕😍
Seeing that AA DC10 taking off gives me chills of 191
This has it all. F100’s and even a 727-100? Perfect
I could watch this all day..
I love this video, it's great to see for once so many American Airlines planes especially the 767-223s and 767-223ERs as well as well as the 727s. The AA Tri-bar polished metal livery never gets old. I wish more videos today featured this variety of American and United planes versus mostly foreign airlines.
these airplane are the same one used on 9/11
Great video and video quality
Ahhh, remember when planes used to takeoff at an airport every 60 seconds?
Bringing nostalgic memories
Many 747-300s. Super rare bird.
Great video. Didn't know what the one at 56:06 was. Looked up the tail number and apparently it's a British Aerospace ATP. Only 65 produced.
I thought it was a Saab 2000
Really awesome to watch this oldtimers!!
The airplanes of my childhood.... thanks so very much for this upload.
Man, that first 747 was REALLY heavy!
How can u tell?
It practically used the entire runway.
Questionable Cat it was also slow to get moving too actually
Paul O haire yeah
Classic KLM 747 shenanigans
And yes, this also brings back the memories...
back when dc10s were still in business
Nice!
The Aeroflot takeoff on 32L at 3:49-4:34 is the longest roll I've ever seen a 767 do. Must've been at (or above!) maximum certified gross weight, on a hot day.
Russian pilots: “we pay whole runway we use whole runway”
Phenomenal footage as usually, JP! If this was 2001, it must be in either January or early February as United retired its last DC-10s by Feb. 15, 2001. Also see a Delta L-1011 in there and those were all gone by mid August, 2001.
Too green for Chicago in Jan or Feb.
Also the fact that Sabena retired the 747 in 1999.
@@20PINKluvr, I agree. This had to be the summer of 1999 at the latest per when Sabena parked their 747-300’s. I live in Chicago was actually working at ORD for United at the time. There’s zero chance this is January or February.❄️
Swissair retired their 747 in 1998.
This is an awesome video....thank you for posting
I enjoy watching
How an airport should be.. continuous aircraft noise!! Fantastic!
Wow there were many smooth landings
Wonderful video, really takes me back to visiting O'Hare in the '90s! Thank you for posting it. Having grown up near O'Hare in the '80s and '90s, I'm sure this video is not from 2001, though. Some of the planes seen here could not have been seen as late as then. One example is the Aeroflot 767-300 seen throughout this video, reg EI-CKD, which was traded to TWA by Feb of 2000. Another case is the elderly United 737-200 reg N9045U (landing at 51:57), which went into storage in July of 1998, and is believed to have been scrapped sometime in 2001. Love your videos...you keep posting, I'll keep watching!
I think it’s a compilation of up until 2001
is this really ohare? cause thats a LOT of farmland in the background, not to mention at 6:10 i see military tanker aircraft, and i dont think ohare was ever an air base in 2001
Funny thing about that Aeroflot 767, now it flies for the Chilean Air Force
@@alexcook2206 i think this is more like 1997-1998 for reasons stated above by Chad Kornack but it is most certainly ORD since I recognize the terminals and runway environments.
@@alexcook2206 The stripes on the jetways for American Airlines' terminal also are a good hint that it is ORD - IDK of anywhere else where American did that.
Was amazing as always ..was so lovely thanku love an God bless x
What's with all the dislikes? Haters, if you don't like these old planespotting videos, you probably shouldn't be watching old planespotting videos. Great stuff!
Back then it wasn’t so populated around O’hare
This is older than 2001. That Sabena 747 was retired in 1999
I miss Mexicana! :( It was a great airline!
Me too, it was fantastic
I live near O’Hare. I wish they were more diverse today.
GREAT plane spotting was at MDW in its heyday. Oh, the DC-7s, DC-6s, DC-4, DC-3s, Constellations (all of 'em), Convair 340 and Martin 404, Boeing Stratocruiser, Viscount, Electra - WOW! And the air lines: Braniff International, Capital, Northwest Orient, Eastern, Air Wisconsin, Ozark, Piedmont, TWA! All from the safety of the roof-top observation deck. THAT was the day, folks!
The last of the good days...
they had plane spotting back then
how you go back to 2001 ???
Cant you think he recorded videos during 1990s-2000s then uploaded them when TH-cam was invented
Was any of this shot after 9/11?
I live in the midwest and when you look at the grass and trees it looks like all of this was before 9/11. Post 9/11 things would’ve been “less green” because of fall colors
Wow ! Airplan is started again.
Never knew that Sabena had a 747!
Paul H right! Didn’t know either! And I was from that country... well Brussels airlines definitely isn’t like the old Sabena.
J W hahah yea they do Brussels airlines got the old a-340 form Sabena and 1 or 2 A330 from sabena.
You reminded me that I have flown on one of them.
I wish I could remember exactly which 747 I've flown on everytime. I think the only other 300s I got to enjoy were Air India amd Swissair.
Yup were used mainly on Johannesburg and Tokyo
I like old just planes Chicago 2001 1997 VHS types aviation since 9 11 American airlines united airlines glad all 747s on there
1:01:28 Interesting to see Aer Lingus A330 with that EI-ORD registration !
Miss you sabena 🇧🇪
What’s missed more TWA, Pan Am or Northwest Airlines?
Excellent and spectacular video! I love this!!
The Royal Jordanian Tristar is so gorgeous !
I love that Air Canada CRJ around the 45 minute mark. Approach stabilized? Meh, close enough.
0:00 the klm 747-200 with extended Upper Deck, such an amazing bird!
The KLM 747 at the beginning looked like it was taking off from the taxiway
32:59 that American MD80 is the same one I flew first class in back in June of 2019. It was from DFW-CMH. (the one on the right)
can anyone find the plane thats at this marker? i tried looking it up and i cant find it 58:29
Looks like a bae Jetstream or a beechcraft 1900. Maybe even a Embraer 120
8:00 That pilot may need to get his Cholesterol checked after all of that butter.
Love 747 best planes
I miss where all the plane use to be
It makes me SAD to see TWA...
Good old days
Dad: why you crying so goddamn loud
And back in the day when taxi times were shorter than your flight at ORD.
Sabena 747-300 😍
I miss the Saul Bass tulip livery.
I honestly wish more airlines kept some of their liveries on a few of their aircraft today.
back when the 777 was still the new kid on the block
How often do the planes fly over? So often you won’t even notice.
I live right next to Ohare, man ohare now isnt as interesting as this compilation, if only I was alive in the late 90’s
Spotting has changed a lot.
I still love ORD but definitely more variety then
I also live right by O’Hara!
O’hare*
The 80's were even better (and smokier) around ORD.
Great video
1:32 good friend aeroflot also what is that plane?
Boeing 767
Seems like a 767 for me
767
Una Hora De 75 minutos de Chicago OHare
The 2 tone colour scheme of United Airlines was really cool back then.. Probably left a bad taste in peoples mouths after 9/11 though..
I didn’t know sabena was still around in 2001
This video is Earlier than 2001
Like most of these videos, this was a late 90s compilation up until 2001 pre-9/11.
ORD! Now we're talking. 💯✈
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Looks like Runways 22R, 9L, 27R, 32L from Tango 10, and 32R are the actives. Old Runway 18/36 appears prior to being closed and converted into a taxiway. This is the north side of the field and except for runway 32L, they are the original four runways. 14R/32L was the first runway built for jets.
Seriously looked like that Aeroflot was taking off from a taxiway
Can anyone tell me what that long-ass plane is with 2 engines near the tail of AA at 12:45 mark?
That's an Embraer ERJ-145
Nice
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Do you know where the person was standing to film this? The only place I can think of is on the top of the parking garage for the first part of the video.
I was going to guess roof of the Hilton.
anyone else realize that air canada’s livery at this time is the current one now?
yeah, the same livery from the past...except that they painted a mask on the windshield
@@derciosoares1113 well the titles changed colour to and the maple leaf was redone on the tail to :) but yeah hardly a change
2001...The beginning of the end of the saying "getting there is half the fun".
This is sooo cool! I remember when United was gray like that and doesn't United have Continental's Logo now??
When United and Continental merged in 2010 they kept Continental's livery and branding, and the United name.
I think everyone remembers these times, back when the 747 was the largest plane in the world and one of the most common wide-bodies before the similarly sized 777-300ER was introduced and soon to replace nearly all of these 747s!
the Illinois air natl guard moved from ORD to Scott in 99
I think this was before 2001 at ORD, likely late 1990s as UA DC-10s and DL L-1011s were gone by 2001. I'm thinking 1998-1999.
Most likely. A lot of the planes and airlines shown ceased operations in 1999.
I live 400 miles away and have been there 3 times
before 9/11 just planes used to be able to do US airports & US airlines
Those a340s can land smoothly
Interesting to see Aeroflot and Alitalia with 767s. And a BA 747 still in the Landor scheme, so yes, around '98 I'd say
B747 the most beautiful plane...😍
Mexicana 757....❤❤❤❤