CLE - Cleveland Hopkins International Airport - 1974
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- Silent film (Audio dubbed by me) from the archives of Mr. Todd McCartney & Retro Disney World www.retrodisney... Brief, but fantastic scenes around CLE in 1974! Also included is a B-727 take-off from the interior. Be sure to check my channel for the best in VINTAGE & RARE airliner videos! / classicairli. .
I'll never forget flying into CLE in early July 1973. I was surprised that Hopkins was so busy that morning. I saw DC-10s from United, Northwest Orient, and American. My brother, who met me when my flight arrived, told me that, prior to my arrival, that he saw a United Boeing 747 as well as a second United DC-10.
Man, I wish I had a time machine so I could take a quantum leap back to those days.
Whoa!
I was 11 years old and would hang out at Hopkins all day with my camera. This video is special to me. Really brought back memories!!
excellent quality, for 1974. thanks for sharing.
Great to see vintage Cleveland footage. I spent a lot of time watching those planes.
David Kirsch remember driving to the street everyone parked on and watched the planes take off it was our Sunday drive can't do that today miss those days..
Brookpark Road on the weekend...best entertainment deal in town
Great video. First plane ride was an Eastern Airlines 727. In this video after take off you can see the not yet completed Great Northern Mall.
And the unfinished I-480 bridge
Ah, 70s Cleveland. Home of Pere Ubu, neighbor of Devo, and landing spot for screeching airliners. This is why we need time travel.
Man those DC-10's were brand new! If I could go back in time!
That was fantastic, a video of CLE back during the energy crisis! United was a great line back then and had an all-star american fleet. DC_8s, DC10s and those workhorse 727s. Imagine 737s as cutting edge? I especially enjoyed the quick drive up and the DC8s four engines guzzling fuel and rattling every window on the west side...Thanks a lot for sharing.
DC10 in the 70s I’m good rebook that flight please
Simply nice to watch that historical stuff- thanks!
This was fantastic. I was born in '67, so you'd think I'd remember this old United livery but, by the time I had become interested in aviation, United had moved on to the rainbow colors.
Wow!! Thank-you so much for memory lane. Thank-you all you commenters for sharing your details. I never made it to CLE, but this does remind me of ORD’s observation platform. Except for the noise, I loved flying the 737-100’s, -200’s. It was so much fun to watch the blow-in doors on the nacelles operate if you sat in front of the wing. But, if you sat behind it, the operation of the flaps and clamshell thrust reversers were exceptionally entertaining, especially if the runway was wet. Thank-you again for posting this, and thank-you to the rest of you all for your great comments.
Watching this fondly reminded me of the roar of the engines - especially the 727s and the DC-8s. They announced your departure into the jet age. :-)
Thanks for posting.
Love the old United "stars and stripes" livery. Also the quick view of the NASA center from the window on takeoff.
really wish they would bring that back. I remember it well! Good ol CLE!
United DC-8 Super 63....hanging around Hopkins at 11 years old back then..taking pictures...used to call them stretch DC-8s....love the Eastern push back from the gate that was also the observation deck..complete with speakers to hear pilots and control tower....good old days...
Thank you. This brings back pleasant memories.
I have HUNDREDS more, PLEASE come back!
Cool film, went to school in Cleveland for awhile in the early 80s but I've never had the pleasure of flying in/out of Hopkins. Great job adding the audio!
My very first flight was on a United Airlines DC-8 Super Sixty series in the old Friendship livery. Couldn't have been more than 6 years old. BWI (Friendship Airport back then) to San Francisco. I was immediately fascinated with airplanes and still love watching the old jets on your channel. You do a great job of bringing back some very fond memories. Thanks again and Semper Fi!
Hey, Chris, I flew out of/in to Baltimore Friendship International a few times in the mid-60s...on either United Caravelles or United Viscounts. Loved it. They should have kept that name!
Great video....two of the most classic liveries were United's "Friendship" (not the short-lived "Stars & Bars"), and Eastern's "Hockey Stick" (Ionosphere Blue & Caribbean Blue twin stripes).
Wow looks like United was a big player at CLE back then. That livery was awesome and underrated!
This video brings back a lot of very fond memories. My very first flight was out of Cleveland, and I flew non-stop to SFO. It was June 14, 1967 on my way to visit my Aunt Trish. I was only 12 years old at the time. Flying alone back then was no big deal.
My first flight was KFLL-KCLE, right around this time on a United 727.
Always felt good to board a 727 via the rear stairs. Still my favorites looking a/c after the Concorde.
Flew on a DC-8 in 1977 with that same livery. still have the food menu from that Flight. Washington Dulles to Sacramento California with a stop in Salt Lake City
You should post a picture of that menu on a Facebook aviation site I am sure that people who follow aircraft interiors and menu pictures would love to see it...
blazing the taxi ways like only plane around ! awesome freaking footage
How cool is that!
great video of a time when so many classic airliners were in service! always loved the old united livery! rob
Northwest Orient DC-10 on other side of concourse C.
What a great old Film ? great times back in them days
Back in 1978, the first time me and my little sister flew out of Cleveland Hopkins Airport was on American airlines 727 jet enroute ti Nashville TN
Excellent footage :-) Right into my AVIATION playlist :-) A "BIG" thumbs up :-) ROCK ON!!!!!!!
Gotta be careful driving through Linndale, but then I didn't see any blue/red in your rearview mirror. I spent my childhood a large part of my childhood on the berms of Brookpark road. In fact, the shot of the Brookpark road bridge crossing the Rocky River Reservation shows my childhood home! Oh the nostalgia is killin' me! Caravelles, Viscounts, Electra's, Connies, DC-6/7/8/9/10's, the ubiquitous B727,-37's. I loved the stars and bars, and I thought the 732 was the sexiest little thing flying....swooning.....
My 11 year old self might have been there with my 126 camera..lived 4 miles north
Lovely footage.
I like United Airlines Cleveland Hopkins International Airport hub from the 70s 80s and early 90s era 1970 to 1993 era those are my best memories Delta Airlines had Cleveland to Atlanta Follow by Cleveland to Cincinnati
It is fascinating that CLE was such a sizable hub (rather a 'Focus City' in today's parlance) for UA, given the city's size at the time and distance from ORD. UA and NW DC-10s on the ramp, several DC-8s and a ton of 721s, now look at CLE, kinda sad and a reminder that an "airline can giveth and taketh away".
CLE was one of United's largest hubs in the early 70s, before deregulation.
CLE was a secondary hub in the 70's at least partly due to United's merger with Capitol Airlines in the early 60s and also due to the fact that the airlines were regulated back then and could not rearrange routes without approval from the Civil Aeronautics Board.
DC-10s and Stretch 8s back then.
RJs, 737s and A320s now.
Wasn't Cleveland's airline designation "CVG" back then? Now(2018) "CVG" is Cincinnati, which I seem to remember was "CKE" back then, and now Cinci is "CVG"??? Can anyone help on this?
Cincinnati has always been CVG because the airport is located in CoVinGton, Kentucky. I'm pretty sure Cleveland has always been CLE
Yeah, Stunning. Thanks!
1:03 RIP Eastern,You Will Be Missed. (I know Eastern came back but it's the new one not old one :( )
And the take-off on long gone 36......wow.
I didn't see Braniff, but I did see the I-480 bridge over the Rocky River (and nothing else of 480), along with UA using C Concorse (my, how things revert)...fabulous video!
They had to bulldoze part of my neighborhood to make room for that bridge. It ran through a field that we used as a shortcut to get to Parkview Elementary School
2:10...Great Northern Mall nothing but farm fields and green houses...no Walmart..or Target...I think May Company was a stand alone store...
Jeff Polara yes all woods. And some fields wow! Iam old lol
The nostalgia is kinda overwhelming...
What was the May Company ??? Where they ever in the Boston area where I live ???
Bring back the 727 and these awesome liveries, and I'll start flying again.
Damn United Airlines was booming with passengers travel in CLE back in the 1970s!
Pretty cool I live here in Cleveland Ohio I've flown out of Hopkins a few. I remember those plans well flew a 707lufthansa from here to Frankfurt this brought some good memories back
Maybe someone here knows - in the mid-90s there was an approach to CLE for southern or southeastern arrivals over over the suburbs, not downtown, with lots of turning, descend and hold then descend again. Landing to the NE, rwy 6 (?). Flew more like going into LGA where you're avoiding JFK, EWR traffic. Seemed like we were staying out of something's way. Wasn't terrain. Later it seemed like every approach was over the lake. Or maybe the Mad Dogs couldn't handle it the way the little -9s could!
You get a quick glimpse of the bride deck for the not-yet-complete. Interstate 480. The bridge was completed a few years before it was connected to any roadway.
Excellent! Ah the days when safe Boeing and McDonnell-Douglas ruled the skies.
@1:13 Eastern's 727 "WhisperJet"
lol ... I guess it's all relative!
Lucian Landry "Whisper Jet" yeah to everybody inside the cabin. Outside? El Screamo
wow.. thank you.
Interesting to see that the Eastern airliner was a Boeing 727-200, while the United three-holers were -100s. IIRC, United had around 150 Boeing 727-100s at one time.
Great work, my kind of airport/airline video. Probably had ashtrays in those birds. People not nearly as uptight as today.
I remember flying on a United Airlines Boeing 727 and 737 back in the day.
amazing, I love this channel!
1977. I flew in a United DC-8 with the old star & stripe livery from Denver Stapelton to Washington Dulles. great plane
This is the coolest thing, I live right in sight of the video, at the end, there is a take off, instantly you see the NASA Glenn research center, Brookpark bridge and then a neighbourhood. I live just north of the two baseball fields! A lot has changed at Hopkins over the years. Thank for posting, has any more?
I grew up in the same area
It sure has changed and this video brought back a lot of memories.
I was born in 85 so seeing I-480 in the state its in at 2:06 boggles my mind.
Classic United.
I agree. Their "Friend Ship" livery was their best. Looks great on every jet United flew.
I can hear the theme to Airport 75, oh it now by new ear worm for the week!
I like your thumbnail pic !!!!!! :)
Love the stretched United DC 8
Awesome! Love it!
This is too cool.
Amazing video!
Eastern had a great color scheme too.
Wow the 480 was not completely built yet
At 2:00 you can see beginning construction of I480 bridge over the Rocky River
"Whisperjet huh" the ground crew thought with some amusement
CLE!
nice!
Now a Days they only have CRJs ERJs and 757s flying there
This video is amazing how did you get all these old videos?
This particullar video was shown to me by a fellow on FB; I asked him if I could use/edit it, and he said OK. Some of my material comes from the Internet Archive, eBay, U.S. National Archives, etc.
2:00 Why the same sound from SDMullis Charlotte to San Francisco 1989 video?
Video is dubbed
Life was more fun before RJ's
Is that a Northwest Orient DC-10?
That was a Northwest Orient DC-10 way off in the distance on the other side of the concourse.
As I recall, Northwest operated 4 DC-10s out of Cleveland on a daily basis in the fall of 1974.
Was this taken with a movie camera? Quality good....Consumer Video Cameras not available until early 80s...
Cal Garian those were movie cameras...this looks like it was taken with video camera....
Why don't planes have "eyebrow" cockpit windows anymore?
Sextant so aren't used for navigation as much
+Bruce Baxter Thanks for that succinct "eye opener", I had no idea they were used for navigation fixes on the sun or stars. Actually thought they assisted in collision avoidance/situational awareness etc.
Woah smallest 4 engined plane ever
Aviation museum :).
do a jet from the 50s
Notice how little American's scheme has changed through the years. All others are un-recognizable. Kinda like the legacy NFL teams. You don't mess with tradition(Packers/Cowboys/Steelers/Bears)...no need.
Awesomesauce! Cute little 737's with eyebrows!!