Pan AM Clipper Magic with Boeing 707 1958
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- Remember when flying was fun and even glamorous? It still is for those in luxury class but in the 1950s and 60s it still was for the average flyer.
The introduction of the Boeing 707 in 1958, dubbed the Clipper by Pan Am, after the famous planes of the '30s kicked the jet age into overdrive.
Pan Am was the first to embrace the 707 and it's the plane that changed aviation history.
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Cost of air travel in 1958. Here’s an example, My mom and sister flew out of Vancouver to London in 1958. (Grandma & grandpa weren’t well ) Nobody else in the family could go. Meanwhile , dad had to second mortgage the house to finance the urgent trip. Basically the return airfare was equivalent to $25k in today’s money. And no they didn’t fly first class ... but yes, the seating was far more roomy and inflight service far more wonderful & civilized than today.
I flew on these beautiful aeroplanes nearly 50 years ago. The 707 was magnificent to look at, and for the times way out there. I can also remember the first 747 landing at Charles Kingsford Smith Airport, along with being there for the first Concord...what halcyon times, these flying birds along with the astonishing Apollo space program. They say "if can remember the 60's then you weren't there ". Well as an infant/primary school boy i can recall so much. Happy days, and thanks for the great upload.
Remarkable that you can still arrive for the same Queen's birthday.
Baby blood
@@elonmust7470 yessir
True.
Indeed
How many USA presidents since then?
Ralph Savory was the Chief Pilot for Pan Am, was my Dad's best and my surrogate father (taught me to drive and fly). We were neighbors all thru my teens in the San Juan Islands. He piloted us to Hawaii on a 707 and at 6 yrs old I wound up in the cock pit. I remember that 707 couch! Then came the amazing 747's!
Great memory! My uncle in the UK travelled the world with his work - Pan Am 707's always held a special place!
My family emigrated to Canada in 1973 on a 707! Eight hours from Manchester to Vancouver!
and no quicker now!
I always remember my first flight. It was in 1961 Pan Am Clipper 707. I joined my husband in Turkey. He was employed by an American Company. They issued my ticket with Pan Am. I flew from Frankfurt to Ankara with a stop in Istanbul. Everybody was dressed up. Men in suits with ties. I bought a cream linen suit for the flight and wore high heals. It looked very elegant. I was so excited I couldn't believe that I am travelling on a jet plane. I expected to travel on an old propeller plane. The stewardesses looked like they came straight out of Hollywood and the food was so delicious. I had to stay overnight in Ankara, because my destination was Adana and Pan Am did not fly there. Pan Am paid for my overnight accommodation. The next day I had to fly with Turkish Airline to Adana.
Sounds wonderful. Pity we didn't have TH-cam then. Would love to see the journey.
@@valvlog4665 Also a pitty we had no digital cameras at that time.
Back when Pan Am "Makes the going great"
How old are you???
@@leonardocaceres2540 Now I am 79.
My first commercial flight was aboard a Boeing 707 in 1969, from Los Angeles to Okinawa. The seats were so much roomier, and in the days before microwave ovens, the premade food was heated up in regular ovens or a rangetop, in the galleys. Served on real dinnerware with cloth napkins. In coach. The flight attendants socialized with the passengers and played with the children, using airline sponsored games that they got to keep. My two year old son was taken up to meet the captain and crew. People today wouldn't believe the luxury and pampering on these flights. Again, we flew coach. Those lounge chairs in the early shots were in First Class. Approximately 160 passengers on the aircraft.
when I flew with my nephew to Tokyo he also got to see the captain inside the cockpit while flying - these things still exist :)
To this day, the Boeing 707 will always have a special place in my ❤️
Well, thank you for your opinion!
I'm in a generation of the ol' B747-200/300 classics..now doing the new generation aircrafts (fly by wire) makes my job simpler..but still miss the ol' days of jumbo jets.
I agree! Best plane ever!
Vintage travel at its finest. Superb inflight meals and customer care by the cabin crew. I love the warmth and coziness of yesteryear's airlines.
The flight would have been bumpy and loud not to mention costing 10 times as much as a ticket today
Indeed; those marvelously inefficient fuel-guzzling, CO2 spewing, deafeningly loud early jet engines; cabins elegantly engulfed in a delicate mist of the finest cigarette smoke, through which ecstatic and jolly youngsters walked in excitement, for they were to meet the captain and get honored with a pilot wing pin; mingling with the highest of high society because nobody else could really afford to fly; oh, the good old days.
Great memories. From New York to Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 back in 1960s. 707. Pan Am Eastern,And Trans Caribbean Airlines. Amen 🙏🏻 🇵🇷🇺🇸🙏🏻.
I remember my first flight when I was about 3 years old. I did not realized how lucky I was flying. I flew from Taipei to Hualien on Far Eastern Transport Airlines, Vicker Viscount. I remember that was probably the first time I had a Pepsi on the plane. Then we returned to Taipei on China Airlines B737. Back in 1973, not many people could afford flying in Taiwan, and my dad took the whole family on a plane. Special indeed.
Count your lucky stars either of those flights even made it off the ground before crashing.
I feel honoured to have flown on one of these as a kid. QANTAS had 707s in the 60s. I guess it was more expensive to fly in those days but I am sure the experience, speed, comfort etc was every bit as good as what we get today. (Apart from the second hand smoke of course!) Also flew on a 747 in the 70s. Hard to believe how advanced those planes really were. They opened up the world.
8:43 'I say, look at those pretty flames coming out of the engine.'
The powder rooms were much larger than the one nowadays.
Those powder rooms are FAKE. They are not lavatories as they have no doors. There is nowhere on the aircraft where they could reasonably have been situated and no lady would want to do her hair and put on her make up etc in full view of anybody who may have been passing by.
The space between seats are just enormous by today’s standards
Boy is it depressing watching this in 2020.
I would go back in time for a trip on this Clipper.
Ah, the Holocene.
When Trump said make America great again, he was resoundingly mocked for it. 'america was NEVER great'. But when you watch a video like this, you can almost understand what he may have been talking about.
@@danwake4431I flew first class back in 1967. And yes, it really was great.
@@ZnenTitan how much was the cost, adjusted to todays $$ ? 10,000$?
Pan American ✈️good old days
Yes, back then, flying was something very special - and also the fares ...... for "regular" workers/people transatlantic flights were nearly inaffordable
What a wonderful look back into the past. Some things in the past were better, but many were not. I definitely don’t miss all the smoking. I’m so glad that is passed.
This is beautiful
what an airline!!!! want me to go back in time
Boeing 707 beautiful air plane
Those Pratt & Whitney JT-3C engines used on the first 707s were incredibly loud. As were the JT-4 engines used on the early intercontinental versions, as well as the Rolls-Royce bypass engines used on some of the early intercontinental versions of the 707. The later JT-3D engines used on most 707s were an improvement noise-wise, but were still way above what is acceptable today.
I love how they said "barely any sound" hahaha. I was like yeah right. Today's jets are significantly quieter and you can still hear plenty of sound.
Ah those were the good ole days before the 2020 pandemic..
yup!!!
Actually planes were more shaky and louder back in the day
In that year is different man omg
@@theuser698 11:44
Yeah, but the food was better, there was actual leg room and the service was more polite.
Anonymous 95 but they sound great! I do love those JT8D engine!!
Stop making fun of me I have autism
Ahh, the days of real air travel. Just look at those four fuel sucking turbojet engines. Loud and smoky, the best!!
Interesting how they had the model of the Pan Am terminal with Dc-8’s facing out. Unless they were towed out, the jet blast would have done wonders for the huge glass windows. I miss that terminal.
I can still remember coming of a jet a smelling like a ashtray 🚬
Oh, the air was unbreathable, even in non-smoking.
Give over. Even with smoking permitted the air on board was fresher and cleaner than the heavily recycled air of today. When smoking was prohibited a cost cutting measure, the airlines reduced fresh air intake. Heating fresh air costs money as it uses up fuel to heat the air. Recycling the air saves the airline money.
How petty one must be to write such a bitchy comment
Back in the glory days of aviation when air travel was glamorous and a luxury.
And very expensive only for the rich
It sort of remained that way until the 70's ... when most everything began decaying.
PresidentGas1 how about more equal...and fair.
PresidentGas1 By decaying, you mean growing by tenfold while reducing fatal crashes by 80% and halving real ticket prices?
@@dmrr7739 No I mean by society standards. You know ... the way people dressed, the way they treated each other etc. All of that and more went to shit in the 70's. Just look at New York City .. lol.
What a difference, now we travel in economy class as a sardines in a can and the food is awful 😂😂😂😂😂
Business class is still available at 3 weeks wages.
What food?
You get food ??
food?
what food? all I got was a tiny bad of nuts! what airline are you talking about??
Golden age of flying, when people dress well to travel, Amen!
yeah!!!!
...and the planes had souls......
Round trip airfare also cost more than a car
Golden era of Air Travel
Yes, when jets were much more likely to crash due to the technology of the time, how wonderful.
First flew on Boeing 707/06July1974, fifty years ago to Barbados via Antigua.
Excellent meals and service with BOAC/British Airways having just amalgamated in April of 1974.
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People in the 1950s sure did love to point at things.
Somewhat highly enhanced travel description me thinks.
The good old days!
The early days of jet travel - when the "Mile-high Club" MEANT something.
No. You need to understand typical ticket cost back then, is equivalent to a business class today.
You get the same level of service, food and comfort, plus all the entertainment you can ask for.
You miss those good ol'days ? fly business class.
No wonder
back then business class was only option
I’ll definitely try to find a cheap business class ticket every time I go to Japan or Germany I hate economy class and it’s no wonder why the service here is better than economy class
Pan Am is probably the best American airline too
beautiful plane
My family flew to Tehran from JFK on a and M707 clipper in 1967. We did a lot of flying in those days and I still marvel at the profound differences in what we have these days and what it was like then. I stay away from those silver tubes as much as possible these days, they simply aren’t fun anymore. Haven’t been for a very long time.
"Remember when flying was fun and even glamorous... and overly expensive".
I read that all prices were set by the government, so to compete, pan am went for higher service. That's why deregulation killed them.
@@atexaninkorea1773 If it’s true that human created pollution is a major contributor to the current climate change then deregulation of the airline industry has a lot to answer for.
That's what kept out the riff-raff.
Now, they let anyone fly. 😬
And nowadays is not anymore? 350 € for ticket from Moscow to Rome for example.
@@kaiserjager2754 "According to a study by Compass Lexecon, commissioned by Airlines for America, the average flight from L.A. to Boston in 1941 was worth $4,539.24 per person in today’s money". This happened in 1957 (www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/history-of-flight-costs)
Let's go back to the good old days!!
Somehow in the middle of the CORONA pandemic this is extra surreal.
Not like today.. We have a boxed snack for purchase for $18.00
And that's reflected in ticket prices, for the most part. I'll take a £1 fare to anywhere in Europe and overly expensive snacks any day. I can always take my own water & sandwich.
It's amazing what we take in stride today for air travel.. considering what used to be.
imagine that, a lounge.
"The temperature is 64 degrees". Back when Britain was proud of her imperial units.
Man oh man. Bring this back.
Back then we were moving ahead leaps and bounds. Jet this & rocket that then it ceased to evolve any further. What the hell happened?
We ran into the wall of the realities of fuel cost and the density of the atmosphere
400mph to 500mph is the most efficient speed to fly
The Chief from Get Smart is narrating this documentary
If 1958 passengers saw 2020 passengers they would see a high-tech dystopia.
Back in the day, when you weren't treated as a terrorist every time you boarded a plane.
On the way back, 6 and half magic hours after a 30 day wait, then a 14 day quarantine.
Don't forget the full body scan, pat down and inspectors tossing your underwear on a public table while they search your bag for stuff that might explode.
one gigantic omission: it took 14 hours to get back.
Flying against the jet stream
One giant omission: it took years to save up the cost of airfare (or pay back the enormous loan), if you weren’t wealthy enough to just pay cash in full.
Pan am had mood lighting before most airlines today
Makes you want to go back 40 years to fly international!
At 10x the cost it is today
@@jamesricker3997 not quite.
I miss PAN AM very much.
Ahhhh yessss. Good ol' times. This and the Boeing 747. Sadly we have to ditch all of our 707's due to fuel consumption and noise....otherwise great aircraft. :-)
Bring back Pan Am !
@@mrjohncharlesbrown Of course mate, but only if we had enough money, dedicated man, marketing and public trust to rerun this awesome airline.
Our generation got screwed. Look at the space in economy and the food.
Ryan look at the bright side....at least we can afford plane travel now 😃 It was for the rich in those times!
@@Suraxa1970 Big deal. It may be cheaper but you get treated like shit and are packed in like a sardine. Gimme the old days any day.
SCREWED big time.
A10PANG I’d love to have the old times again....but only if I happened to be rich 🤑
A10PANG Chose First Class as I do, and you will geht Service and meal Even netter than at the good Oli Time. And today you have flat bed. Seats of Even your own Cabin. At the Airport you can geht your own room with bedroom and shower.
07:00 no vibration hardly any sound..boy sure those jt3d screamin loud 😃
More like the JT-3C-6 man. Remember, it was in '58. Not even the -320B/C at the time. Yes, still turbojets, not even low-bypass turbofans. And it was underpowered (I'm talking about the -120). And yes again, it was even louder.
Last week I noticed that my Duck à L’orange was a tiny bit cold and my tablecloth wasn’t ironed very well.
"We have chosen the wrong future" ---Peter Hitchens
Heathrow in to Vancouver Via Winnipeg/Calgary. 1964/6 in my early teens ,it was a chore I thought at the time. Air Canada I did not fly again untill I went Virgin cattle class 747. in 2004. what a difference and what luxury looking back a 707 was,but of course I was a typical ungratfull teenager way back then getting packed off on vaccation
First song is
Jack Trombey: Achievement in Industry
This guy did the Memphis Belle documentary, sweet!
Once upon a time flying was a great experience
Once upon a time, only rich people could afford to fly...
Ah when passengers were courteous and well behaved.
Same queen. Vastly different experience on a plane. ☹️
Promotions like this usually ran in cinemas ... along with newsreels & other feature shorts before the main feature film.
one day they will be saying: it took several months just to get to Mars, now just a few hours....
yeah. i would like to be alive for that. i envy those future generations.
I'll sure miss air travel. And food.
And the whole airplane smelled like a f**king ashtray !
You a health nut? It's 1958 dammit.
Pan American World Airlines started service in Dinner Key, Coconut Grove, Florida in the late thirties. Charles Lindbergh was the first President.
I grew up in my families home That was built in 1894 on BayShore Drive two blocks away from the NE hangar. Pan American moved to Miami International Airport during WW2 and the Coast Guard took over the hangars, buildings and ramps. As a kid, I would fish on the dock and watch they seaplanes gun their engines to get up the ramps and be washed off with fresh water and then the passengers would de bark. The City of Miami Mayors office in now located in the original Pan Am Building and the ramps were filled in to add docks, save the one at the base of Graceland Blvd (27th Avenue) called Seminole Docks. Miami has an interesting history but most of the people living there now have no clue. GlennFHoward
I remember when you could smoke in the plane, got real cutlery and china.
It was great but very expensive. That’s why you dressed up. It was something special.
and get a decent roast dinner freshly carved in front of you. None of this pay for your food & drink BS.
@@douga3212 The only place you got anything freshly carved in front of you was in First Class.
The days of adventure and the promise of a better future.
We going backwards in aviation in terms of experience.
The cost of round trip plane trip to Europe then was $6000-$8000 in today's money. Business class today is just as nice or nicer for considerably less.
More than 60 years later and we’re still flying the same way... very interesting
No we aren't
Today's aircraft are larger and a lot more fuel efficient
good lord! this is almost comical :)))))
Damn they got a full thanksgiving dinner. What the hell happened? I flow 6hr to San Francisco and got a small bag of pretzels.
You can still get this level of service and even better with amenities that people back then could only dream of in today's business and first class. They paid first class prices back then that's why they got first class service. If you pay the equivalent today you'll have a wonderful experience too with more gourmet food than you could eat a la carte, your own personal 40 inch tv with more movies than you could watch in a life time, fully private suites with separate flat beds, wifi internet access, and even showers.
Boeing 707 in that pan am liverey,it doesn't get much better than that.
No TSA treating everybody like criminals.
Pfsif but no criminal on board either darling ...
@@titis4608 No criminals existed back then.
I wonder if people back then asked for vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, kosher, halal, or low sodium meals.
No, you didn't!
They didnt... They were normal back then. Now its just weak sex confused soft cry babies every were
In fact they did ... and were promptly shown the door. With a swift kick in the ass they were left to ponder their choice for about 8 minutes until they hit the earth.
@@PresidentGas1 lmfao.
probably kosher and halal
Poor Pan AM. They were the best which made them the biggest target, which was their undoing.
From NY to London in day time! Yes, but leaving time should be early in the morning and by summer. Leave at 7 am, arrival at 7 pm... still clear and sunny!!
Not in winter, of course.
Many say that those were the days when flying was fun.
The days when you dressed to the nines to fly!
When you also have to pay the equivalent of 10 grand for a ticket
The demolition of Worldport by Delta was a crime! Such a wonderfully designed building, with such an important history.
Golden age of aviation. It was also an era that Americans had class and style and did not dress up like slobs.
@Tiny Chihuahua That is true. some it was because they smoked cigarettes a lot and that kept their appetite and their food intake on check.
It's embarrassing how fat and sloppy we have become as a nation. I say we as individuals go against it.
Americans also had a lot more racism, homophobia, misogyny, and lung cancer in that era.
Tomorrow, I'm booking a trip on Pan Am. Oh wait...
By the way, we flew a lot faster back in the day.
Isso sim é vida boa, um verdadeiro churrasco dentro do avião. Pois eu viajei na ETIOPIAN AIRLINE de Adis Ababa para São Paulo no aperto danado, uma comida restrita, pense em um desconforto. Um abraço desde Natal, Rio Grande do Norte - Brasil.
They ate better food aboard the plane than I do at home nowadays...
Watching this in 2020 feels so ancient. Can the world change so much in 50 odd years. Seeing is believing. It does. Life has changed so much in this past 50 years. Pan am no longer exists
No vibrations during flight! I do remember tablecloths, even in coach. That makes me smart, old, or both.
In those days, the airline industry cared for its passengers. Today however...? You do the math!
You can still get this level of service and even better with amenities that people back then could only dream of in today's business and first class. They paid first class prices back then that's why they got first class service. If you pay the equivalent today you'll have a wonderful experience too with more gourmet food than you could eat a la carte, your own personal 40 inch tv with more movies than you could watch in a life time, fully private suites with separate flat beds, wifi internet access, and even showers.
And now we have Ryanair, compare it to this 😂😂🥶
I keep seeing comment after comment reminiscing about when travel was good... okay maybe domestic. But hello Emirates and other luxury airlines exist today with actual rooms/cabins and sleeper seats... some even have showers!
Is that Jose Ferrer narrating?
Flying was like owning a Rolls Royce, back then..
And a hostie to give you a light for your dhurrie.....how good is that?!?
Only the lucky few could afford to fly in 1958. It was not after the 747 was build that air travel became more affordable.