Thanks for posting! My dear mother-in-law was a stewardess on the DC-3s. She's 95 years old and still going strong. it was great to see a little slice of what work was like for her back then.
Really Injoyed Flying DC-3's they could fly in any kind of Weather over Land Or Water. Great Memories. God Bless Your Mother In Law. She Might of Been Stewardess On One I Flew On. The Service Was Great On DC-3's.
Excellent historical film. Took my first flight in a Canadair Argonaut in 1953 - Singapore to Uk. What changes I have witnessed in my 73 years of flying.
I LOVE WATCHING THESE OLD TIME MOVIES FROM THE PAST IT GIVES US A BIRD'S EYE VIEW WHAT HISTORY WAS LIKE . BEFORE WE WERE BORN KEEP THESE OLD TIME CAPSULES COMING THANK YOU FOR SHARING WITH US 👍👍🇺🇸
Ford Tri-Motor, such an elegant beast. love the shot of the Sratocruiser on the bridge crossing the road. The early days of airline flying were exciting and glamorous, now it’s all out of date sandwiches, grumpy cabin crew and scratch cards.
just fly business, same price as it was back then, same service but modernized. also, as far as I'm aware of, rynair is the only airline that sells lottery tickets, and you can book 20$ flights with them.
19:20 It took a lot of space, effort and ingenuity to produce those early flight simulators. It’s always interesting to recall life before the computer chip.
When I first joined the RAF in 1979 the ‘simulator’ that was in use was even less complicated and not very authentic to the real aircraft type, basically the cockpit of a real aircraft had been chopped of and the flight control cables etc went to simulated control surfaces with very very rudimentary electronic controls for the instructors to simulate normal flight and emergency conditions, and It was forever breaking down, the sim-tech was more of a mechanic than a electronics technician.
Today we are laughing and making jokes of them who did unimaginable efforts to give our lives comfort and technology which we have Today۔۔ many of them even sacrificed their lives in experiments and making planes ۔۔ they tried every single thing to fly and finally they were through and won ۔ these inventors these people were at a different level as Today they had a motive they had that craze they had that courage they had that time which they spent to fulfil their dreams not like today we chasing £€€£€£ ۔ they had a goal، they worked day and night۔Many passed away with the dream (to fly ) but these special people never left hope and kept trying and trying ۔ See where we are now just because of them۔ Every country on the world looks like its just round the corner۔ I an write all night to praise them and still my words will not end ۔۔ love them respect them and Salute them۔۔ R۔I۔P
Boy, that DC 3 looked good. They were used in about 25 different ways, like mail carriers in the Arctic, and they're still in use today in many countries. I remember going to California when I was 12 in 1963. I went by myself because I kept telling my parents I could do this thing. It was very daring for a 12 year old to be going to California on a visit. But my older sister was married and living in Huntington Beach. I kept hearing the Beach Boys singing about the surfing and that's what I wanted to do. We went to the beach a lot and I had a great trip. I brought back a pair of surfing swimming trunks, which were very long and baggy with pockets in the front, orange and yellow, a skateboard, which nobody in my hometown in Ohio had ever heard of, and a Nehru jacket, named after the premiere of India, and some "love beads." They went with the jacket. The boys started making their own skateboards out of wooden boards and roller skate wheels. And traveling in a big airplane like I did wasn't scary at all. I loved it. I've flown many times since then but I'll always remember my first trip. The Beatles were still a year away but that's another story.
At 19:05, the Soviet jet shown is actually a very rare Tu-110, not the Tu-104 as Mr. Cronkite narrated. The Tu-110 was a 4-engine variant of the 2-engine Tu-104. Only a handful were built. So...cool!!
This was an episode of "The Twentieth Century", a CBS News documentary series during from 1957-66. Generally reviewing events and issues in history (but about once a month focusing on current issues) it was narrated by Walter Cronkite, and was actually a very popular program.
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It's a travesty to realize just how far the aviation industry has fallen and as a society. People were mature and respectful towards one another then. *Actual* food was served. Professionalism and care was used during the entire flight. No strip search and being fondled by TSA. Our parents and grandparents had it so good!!
I started going on trips in the 1960s as a child. It was a different world, flights were very special, professional. TSA, lol, in 1967 I watched hunters bring their rifles on board and put them in the overhead storage, nothing was thought of it. Those were the best days .
What a CLASSIC film this is!!! The coolest plane of all of them, had to be those Convair 880's then again after this film was made, the 990's... And of course the unmistakable voice of Walter Kronkite narrating this masterpiece... Such cool music to go along with it !!!
A very well produced historical review, I'm lucky to have lived thru ALL those early models until today's New Aircraft. Personally, I'd prefer to fly the older jets of course.
Wouldn't get me up in any of those planes. I prefer train travel. I'm in no hurry to get there or collide into the side of mountain...Anyone remember Carole Lombard?
For the kind of service that the airlines provided back in the day I would have gladly paid the $350 quoted by the narrator, it might have been more dangerous and took a inordinate amount of time to get anywhere, however I don’t mind not going so fast that no sooner you get lunch your landing, it seems to me that the early years of passenger flight was far more glamorous and sedate than anything that the airlines have to offer today, AND more importantly you didn’t have to be at the airport hours before your flight just to get through check-in and security, only to have to wait hours to board, stuck buying overpriced food and drinks, spending to much money in the tax/duty free shops for things that you didn’t really want or need, then trying to get it all in your carry-on bag, only to find that a) your bag won’t go in the overhead bin and b) something has leaked all over your bag contents, and that’s assuming that you got it into the overhead bin,and you didn’t have to sit with it under your feet or on your lap for the whole flight, and when you eventually get to your destination it takes hours to get through baggage claim, then passport and customs, then when you are finally done with that lot you find out that a) your hire car wasn’t booked or b) there are no taxis or c) the reason for your journey was cancelled whilst you were still in the departure lounge, but nobody thought or tried to ring you or the airline so you could spend the weekend doing something more interesting than sitting in a hotel room waiting until Monday so you can fly home, but only because there wasn’t any seats available for you to use before then. Oh yeah, air travel has certainly gone a long way since air travel was first introduced, and by a long way I mean it has gone a long way BACKWARDS. P.S The Comet-1 was NOT fatally flawed in design, the method of securing the skin around the window apertures was designed to be bonded, however during construction it was found to be a very time consuming process so after much debate a decision, by an engineer, was made to rivet that portion of skin in place, a far quicker and more cost effective process, however the actual process of doing it that way was carried out but not as well as it should have been, the stress of the process on the aperture skin caused inter-granular failure and that led to the skin blowing out, if they had persevered with the bonding technique everything would have been fine, but somewhere along the line money and speed of build was put above engineering specifications. P.P.S, The tank that was shown @ 18:10 is only about a mile from my home, Farnborough, Hampshire, and I was told by someone who was there at the time, when they filled the tank with water 💦 it caused a huge number of people to loose their domestic water 💧 supply until it was filled, he could have been exaggerating but he had no reason to.
They totally missed a special mention to the Sud-Aviation Caravelle which was the second jet airplane to enter production several years before the B707 and it was the first short distance one (2500 km). These were so beautiful and were copied to make the DC9 and B727. A great age. I remember seeing the superb IL62 and VC10 at Montreal Dorval airport.
@@FromSagansStardust Indeed, but I often regret that US reviews always made "short" mention of the French achievements which in this case is simply a pioneer and in my humble professor of mechanical engineering view, one of the most significant airplanes to change the world, in my top 5. Do you know that the Super-Caravelle was able to self-land itself? This was confirmed by a friend who is a retired Air France pilot and loved the airplane's agility and capacity, almost as good as a fighter.
@@FromSagansStardust Well, I was on the Canadair program in the 80's and now I teach future aircraft and mechanical engineers near Glasgow. I research on sense-and-avoid for drones. I am a strong admirer of many French aircrafts: Aerospatiale Alouette, Mirage, Rafale, etc. I even flew in the rare Dassault Mercure of Air Inter.
@@lucrolland7489 Very nice! The closest I can come is that I designed & installed a baggage compartment modification on a Canadair Challenger (over 20 years ago).
Ms. Roosevelt certainly dislodged the hinge of the door of the DC3 when she hit it several times with the bottle. When Ms. Nixon hit the side of the jet plane, they took at least the precaution to protect it with a firm board, so to see.
Cleyn Piercke Whoever prepared the champagne bottle should have scored it with a glass cutter, which would have caused the bottle to shatter with the first strike. No bright lights back then, lol.
...yep, sounds like an episode of the 20th Century given the narrator is my all time favourite newscaster Walter Cronkite. My first ever flight was in a 1929 Ford Trimotor that originally was operated by Eastern Air Transport (the predecessor to Eastern Airlines). at an airshow in Milwaukee back in the 1960s. That aeroplane is now owned by the Experimental Aircraft Association having been fully restored to it's original Eastern Air Transport colours. One aeroplane I wish was mentioned was the Boeing 307 stratoliner which was the first four engine pressurised airliner. Unfortunately it entered service only a couple years before WWII and all were conscripted into military service. By the postwar era surplus C-47s (DC-3) and C-54s (DC-4) were offered in large numbers at reasonable costs to the airlines which snapped them up. During the war, Boeing ceased production of the 307, focusing on production of heavy bombers (the B-17 and B-29) and afterward jet powered strategic bombers. The 377 Stratocruiser, a passenger version of the C-97 military Stratolifter.and KC-97 stratotanker, was their only civil airliner before the 367-80 (what would become the 707). Sadly only a small number (57) of these luxurious giants were built compared to Douglas' DC 6/7 and Lockheed's Constellation series.which each of which numbered in the multiple hundreds. One interesting fact, the 747 wasn't the first airliner with a "spiral staircase", that honour goes to the Stratocruiser which had one leading down to a lounge on a lower level of the fuselage just aft of the wing. Boeing 307 Stratoliner: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Boeing_307_Stratoliner%2C_Pan_Am_JP5629675.jpg Boeing 377 lower deck lounge and stairway airandspace.si.edu/sites/default/files/images/7203h.jpg encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSdAsqw3Nnl3-_wXximMZOR3pd6dlRCfButQw&usqp=CAU
Wellard smith it's amazing to think that just 10 years later, just 10 short years, men in draught rooms, with designing a supersonic airliner. Freaking crazy.
a cross between a model t and a flying saucer well that wouldve been cool, except the tech wasnt there yet. the closest they got was in the 70s, and that was reengineering a truck to also work as a biplane. the inventor died in a crash
4:27 The value of $350 from 1958 to 2024, $350 in 1958 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $3,758.27 today, an increase of $3,408.27 over 66 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 3.66% per year between 1958 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 973.79% (Copy and pasted from CPI Inflation calculator) Nearly 4 grand a pop is like todays 1st class and business class i suppose.
I appreciate that this short film found it useful to explain the fatigue failure of the de Havilland Comet I. Why then was the propeller whirl instability of the Lockheed L.188 Electra not also explained ?
It hadn't shown up yet. The Whirl Mode ralted breakups didn't happen until 1960. One thing that was alluded to, but not explicitly pointed out in relation to the Comet I was that the fatigue failures were only the icing on the cake. There had been a series of fatal takeoff accidents and one previous turbulence related inflight breakup. Like all early jets, the Comet I was underpowered at low speeds. This made takeoff technique critical. The Comet's original wing was very sensitive with reference to angle of attack - the airplane had to be rotated precisely 10 degrees at just the right time in the takeoff roll (Which would vary according to temperature, altitude and humidity, affecting both the wing and the engines.) If you rotated 9 degrees, the airplane wouldn't take off on any runway that was available. Rotate 11 degrees, or too early, and the induced drag as the airplane tried to fly off will prevent it from accelerating further. Later Comets got a modification to the leading edge of the wing (Retrofitted to the RCAF's Comets, which, after other modifications, were the only Comet Is to continue flying.) that reduced the angle of attack sensitivity on takeoff, and more powerful engines, in addition to the structural redesign to make the structure fatigue tolerant. But, by that time, the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8, which raised performance and range still further, were entering service.
Ohh, This was neato!!!!👍👍👍 Looks like at 12:02 the early signature of the now A380, lol✈️🛫🚅 great VIDEO!!! Jus awesome, awesome!! THANKS for sharing this with me ❤️👍❤️👍
thanks for uploading this fascinating documentary. please allow me to place a request here, because i hope that many aviation fascinated persons might see it: years ago i stumbled on a documentary about autopilots and gyros. they tested the autopilot on a big plane and everything worked perfectly in the beginning. then right before the landing the plane suddenly altered it´s course and they thought the autopilot is broken, but as it turned out the autopilot was correct and just did this maneuver to correct for windspeed, turning of the earth and maybe even other parameters and did find it´s way perfectly to it´s destination. maybe someone has seen this video and kindly posts a link here? i would appreciate that, thanks a lot in advance. i´m going to post this in other videos as well for increasing the chance of positive feedback. thanks again and greetings from austria :)
Great TV program where we could grasp so much evolution towards modern transportation. They forgot to mention about the first airliners with turbo-props being the Viscount, Britannia (and the Canadian CL44) and Vanguard. I remember seeing the Viscount an Vanguard under Air Canada liveries in Montreal. Then, the US reacted with the Electra when France was launching the Caravelle and they should have put more emphasis of the importance of the Caravelle which later was copied and expanded in many different instances (DC-9, Trident, B727, VC10, Il-62, Bac 1-11, Fokker 100, and Regional Jet).
I remember a video on TH-cam showing all the old airliners as a tribute to a flight attendant named lisa wendy Presley with the famous song as background 'those were the days my friend', if any1 knows could you share link please ?
Alphons Vorderwühlbecke Wiki Quote : ”The Do X was financed by the German Transport Ministry and in order to circumvent conditions of the Treaty of Versailles, which forbade any aircraft exceeding set speed and range limits to be built by Germany after World War I, a specially designed plant was built at Altenrhein,[1] on the Swiss portion of Lake Constance."
Not sure about that. 2 days and 11 stops to go NY to LA for $350 in 1958 money ($3,058 today). That will get you a lie-flat first class seat on JetBlue from NY to LA in 5.5 hours.
Makes me think of Jack Graham. Bombed Flight 629 November 1, 1957 killing his mother and 48 others, executed for murdering his mother 15 months later. No charges for the other victims since no one had thought of making blowing up planes illegal.
IF Boeing is still around, they will be a mid-sized twin jet with one engine under each wing. Nothing ever changes. THe 737 will still be around then. But they will call it the 737 - 9000 Ultra.
@@marks6663 You forgot to mention that each 737 will issue Parachutes to it's passengers of course. either that or perhaps Ejection seats for the pax who can shoot themselves to safety should anything go wrong. LOL!!!
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Just watched this for the first time... at roughly 19:07 into the video it shows what is supposedly a Russian Tupolev TU-104, but every other photo of a TU-104 shows it to be a twin-engine jet with an engine buried in the wing root, one on each size of the fuselage. This video shows two engines on the left side of the wing root, which means this is a 4 engined jetliner. Anyone care to enlighten me as to what the heck this airplane is? It's definitely NOT a TU-104!!!
That's one of the reasons I love watching these old films-you see and hear people before they were famous-although Bavier already had a long career on stage and screen, including appearing in "The Day the Earth Stood Still". So far I've run across a nuclear test film narrated by a pre "Tonight Show" Johnny Carson, a film about the 1967 Canadian Grand Prix narrated by a very young Alex Trebek, and several "Andy Griffith Show" and "Dragnet" alumni.
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I've always come back to watch this again and listen to this incredible background score
Thanks for posting! My dear mother-in-law was a stewardess on the DC-3s. She's 95 years old and still going strong. it was great to see a little slice of what work was like for her back then.
The fabulous DC 3 models of which are STILL operational especially in Latin Americas a Tribute to Douglas AircraftCorp (as it was then).
Really Injoyed Flying DC-3's they could fly in any kind of Weather over Land Or Water. Great Memories. God Bless Your Mother In Law. She Might of Been Stewardess On One I Flew On. The Service Was Great On DC-3's.
I love it! I love these old films. The music is a hoot, and it's so fun to see the filmmakers having a sense of humor!
and how!
Excellent historical film. Took my first flight in a Canadair Argonaut in 1953 - Singapore to Uk. What changes I have witnessed in my 73 years of flying.
2:57
"Okay, goodbye!"
"So long."
😅😂🤣😭
When flying was a classy affair. People dressed well and had manners, unlike today.
I LOVE WATCHING THESE OLD TIME MOVIES FROM THE PAST IT GIVES US A BIRD'S EYE VIEW WHAT HISTORY WAS LIKE . BEFORE WE WERE BORN KEEP THESE OLD TIME CAPSULES COMING THANK YOU FOR SHARING WITH US 👍👍🇺🇸
Ford Tri-Motor, such an elegant beast. love the shot of the Sratocruiser on the bridge crossing the road. The early days of airline flying were exciting and glamorous, now it’s all out of date sandwiches, grumpy cabin crew and scratch cards.
just fly business, same price as it was back then, same service but modernized. also, as far as I'm aware of, rynair is the only airline that sells lottery tickets, and you can book 20$ flights with them.
This is an episode of the TV series, "The Twentieth Century," season 3, episode 3, "Age Of The Jet" that first aired on CBS on November 8, 1959.
19:20 It took a lot of space, effort and ingenuity to produce those early flight simulators. It’s always interesting to recall life before the computer chip.
When I first joined the RAF in 1979 the ‘simulator’ that was in use was even less complicated and not very authentic to the real aircraft type, basically the cockpit of a real aircraft had been chopped of and the flight control cables etc went to simulated control surfaces with very very rudimentary electronic controls for the instructors to simulate normal flight and emergency conditions, and It was forever breaking down, the sim-tech was more of a mechanic than a electronics technician.
Today we are laughing and making jokes of them who did unimaginable efforts to give our lives comfort and technology which we have Today۔۔ many of them even sacrificed their lives in experiments and making planes ۔۔ they tried every single thing to fly and finally they were through and won ۔ these inventors these people were at a different level as Today they had a motive they had that craze they had that courage they had that time which they spent to fulfil their dreams not like today we chasing £€€£€£ ۔ they had a goal، they worked day and night۔Many passed away with the dream (to fly ) but these special people never left hope and kept trying and trying ۔ See where we are now just because of them۔ Every country on the world looks like its just round the corner۔ I an write all night to praise them and still my words will not end ۔۔ love them respect them and Salute them۔۔ R۔I۔P
03:33 captain collecting coats.
03:53 captain serving lunch
04:21 captain escorts passengers to the plane.
05:02 captain leaves the plane first
Not the Captain. Notice the two stripes. He is the First Officer, i.e. the co-pilot.
Boy, that DC 3 looked good. They were used in about 25 different ways, like mail carriers in the Arctic, and they're still in use today in many countries. I remember going to California when I was 12 in 1963. I went by myself because I kept telling my parents I could do this thing. It was very daring for a 12 year old to be going to California on a visit. But my older sister was married and living in Huntington Beach. I kept hearing the Beach Boys singing about the surfing and that's what I wanted to do. We went to the beach a lot and I had a great trip. I brought back a pair of surfing swimming trunks, which were very long and baggy with pockets in the front, orange and yellow, a skateboard, which nobody in my hometown in Ohio had ever heard of, and a Nehru jacket, named after the premiere of India, and some "love beads." They went with the jacket. The boys started making their own skateboards out of wooden boards and roller skate wheels. And traveling in a big airplane like I did wasn't scary at all. I loved it. I've flown many times since then but I'll always remember my first trip. The Beatles were still a year away but that's another story.
@@hankaustin7091 A little town called Newton Falls. Loved the Columbus area and OSU.
DC-3 not active in "many" countries: only in Canada and Columbia, other countries only for rare scenis flights and preservation.
$350.00 in 1929 is $5,142.20 in 2019. got to love inflation...
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More like the systematic devaluing of the American dollar.
At 19:05, the Soviet jet shown is actually a very rare Tu-110, not the Tu-104 as Mr. Cronkite narrated. The Tu-110 was a 4-engine variant of the 2-engine Tu-104. Only a handful were built. So...cool!!
This was an episode of "The Twentieth Century", a CBS News documentary series during from 1957-66.
Generally reviewing events and issues in history (but about once a month focusing on current issues) it was narrated by Walter Cronkite, and was actually a very popular program.
Walter Cronkite? You kidding? I knew that voice was familiar XD
18:47 all jet section
18:57 jet introduction
New York to Los Angeles 2 days 11 stops 😭😭 lol This is awesome
I would take the train and wait 10 years to fly LOL !!
Wonderful! Thoroughly enjoyed this recap of airline history.
The jet airplanes in comercial aviation was a great revolution . Great video Periscopefilm.
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It's a travesty to realize just how far the aviation industry has fallen and as a society. People were mature and respectful towards one another then. *Actual* food was served. Professionalism and care was used during the entire flight. No strip search and being fondled by TSA. Our parents and grandparents had it so good!!
And then President Reagan deregulated the industry, sigh!
A lot more expensive back then though.
I started going on trips in the 1960s as a child. It was a different world, flights were very special, professional. TSA, lol, in 1967 I watched hunters bring their rifles on board and put them in the overhead storage, nothing was thought of it. Those were the best days .
Airports looking like 'expensive hotels?' Today most resemble cheap shopping malls stuck inside maximum security prisons.
Well come to the Air Transat hub in Montreal (International terminal) and you will see a nice area comparable in quality to Singapore airport.
@@lucrolland7489 Yes, Singapore is an excellent airport.
@@leedsman54 I was really impressed by it. You should also see the nice St-Exupery airport in Lyon.
Back then there were elements of glamor and excitement for passengers, now, not so much!
Very cool video. The plane is a Ford Trimotor. The car that had a trailer is very rare. I believe it was a Duesenburg and the hitch was not common
Great video, excellent work. Thank you so much for sharing.
Although the credits have been cut off, this is an episode of the TV program "The Twentieth Century".
Much of the late fifties footage was taken from a color film called song of the clouds, which is also posted by periscope channel
What a CLASSIC film this is!!! The coolest plane of all of them, had to be those Convair 880's then again after this film was made, the 990's... And of course the unmistakable voice of Walter Kronkite narrating this masterpiece... Such cool music to go along with it !!!
In their “casual uniforms” (12:28), the Wake Island ground lads certainly would have set hearts aflutter.
I love how Wilma Flintstone was playing the part of the stewardess on that early DC3.
"It's time to get dray-essed. "
I was checking which airline still operates the DC3 service with a full size bed. I'd go for it.
What a great video! Very informative and entertaining. Thank you for the upload!
I like the navigation. Really cool to see how they navigated. Plotting on a map.
...sounds like Walter Cronkite is the narrator.
......said Captain Obvious.
TheTrooper 98Vlog Some great sleuthing is here being performed by the great Sherlock himself, one TH-cam commentator, named “kyotokid4.”
@@stevesanderson8360 Response uncalled for.
In for one was not sure and am old enough.
@@fairfaxcat1312 Tone it down.
kyotokid4 Wally the commie. Self described communist.
A very well produced historical review, I'm lucky to have lived thru ALL those early models until today's New Aircraft. Personally, I'd prefer to fly the older jets of course.
I am fron Brasil I Love airplane United Airlines
Oi eu sou do Brasil e fico feliz com seus vídeos sobre aviões
I do like hearing Walter Cronkite narrating this video.
I wish I were born in those days!
Great documentary thank you! looking forward to your other videos...
Wouldn't get me up in any of those planes. I prefer train travel. I'm in no hurry to get there or collide into the side of mountain...Anyone remember Carole Lombard?
Only a day shorter than all train, stay on the train! More comfortable
Well, between cities at 700 km distance, airplanes will be longer then TGVs.
Good job as usual, Uncle Walter!
As an Aerospace Engineering aspirant, it gives me VTEC.
For the kind of service that the airlines provided back in the day I would have gladly paid the $350 quoted by the narrator, it might have been more dangerous and took a inordinate amount of time to get anywhere, however I don’t mind not going so fast that no sooner you get lunch your landing, it seems to me that the early years of passenger flight was far more glamorous and sedate than anything that the airlines have to offer today, AND more importantly you didn’t have to be at the airport hours before your flight just to get through check-in and security, only to have to wait hours to board, stuck buying overpriced food and drinks, spending to much money in the tax/duty free shops for things that you didn’t really want or need, then trying to get it all in your carry-on bag, only to find that a) your bag won’t go in the overhead bin and b) something has leaked all over your bag contents, and that’s assuming that you got it into the overhead bin,and you didn’t have to sit with it under your feet or on your lap for the whole flight, and when you eventually get to your destination it takes hours to get through baggage claim, then passport and customs, then when you are finally done with that lot you find out that a) your hire car wasn’t booked or b) there are no taxis or c) the reason for your journey was cancelled whilst you were still in the departure lounge, but nobody thought or tried to ring you or the airline so you could spend the weekend doing something more interesting than sitting in a hotel room waiting until Monday so you can fly home, but only because there wasn’t any seats available for you to use before then. Oh yeah, air travel has certainly gone a long way since air travel was first introduced, and by a long way I mean it has gone a long way BACKWARDS.
P.S The Comet-1 was NOT fatally flawed in design, the method of securing the skin around the window apertures was designed to be bonded, however during construction it was found to be a very time consuming process so after much debate a decision, by an engineer, was made to rivet that portion of skin in place, a far quicker and more cost effective process, however the actual process of doing it that way was carried out but not as well as it should have been, the stress of the process on the aperture skin caused inter-granular failure and that led to the skin blowing out, if they had persevered with the bonding technique everything would have been fine, but somewhere along the line money and speed of build was put above engineering specifications.
P.P.S, The tank that was shown @ 18:10 is only about a mile from my home, Farnborough, Hampshire, and I was told by someone who was there at the time, when they filled the tank with water 💦 it caused a huge number of people to loose their domestic water 💧 supply until it was filled, he could have been exaggerating but he had no reason to.
Cool old flick. I enjoyed it!
When I see those old pioneers footage and the exciting risks I m sure I would give everything I have to be here right now.
Its an aeroplane not an airplane nor a plane which is a carpenters tool.
They totally missed a special mention to the Sud-Aviation Caravelle which was the second jet airplane to enter production several years before the B707 and it was the first short distance one (2500 km). These were so beautiful and were copied to make the DC9 and B727. A great age. I remember seeing the superb IL62 and VC10 at Montreal Dorval airport.
It was mentioned/shown at 19:00, however briefly!
@@FromSagansStardust Indeed, but I often regret that US reviews always made "short" mention of the French achievements which in this case is simply a pioneer and in my humble professor of mechanical engineering view, one of the most significant airplanes to change the world, in my top 5. Do you know that the Super-Caravelle was able to self-land itself? This was confirmed by a friend who is a retired Air France pilot and loved the airplane's agility and capacity, almost as good as a fighter.
@@lucrolland7489 I did not know that! I shall have to research into it some more! I am retired pilot and aircraft mechanic.
@@FromSagansStardust Well, I was on the Canadair program in the 80's and now I teach future aircraft and mechanical engineers near Glasgow. I research on sense-and-avoid for drones. I am a strong admirer of many French aircrafts: Aerospatiale Alouette, Mirage, Rafale, etc. I even flew in the rare Dassault Mercure of Air Inter.
@@lucrolland7489 Very nice! The closest I can come is that I designed & installed a baggage compartment modification on a Canadair Challenger (over 20 years ago).
16:14 - podívejme, jak vepřové zachutnalo! Od čínského kuchaře a bylo pěkně prorostlé.
Ms. Roosevelt certainly dislodged the hinge of the door of the DC3 when she hit it several times with the bottle. When Ms. Nixon hit the side of the jet plane, they took at least the precaution to protect it with a firm board, so to see.
Cleyn Piercke Whoever prepared the champagne bottle should have scored it with a glass cutter, which would have caused the bottle to shatter with the first strike. No bright lights back then, lol.
The hinge is on the other side. It looks like they put a couple c-clamps on there, but it is cringeworthy...
That was Eastern Airlines CEO Eddie Rickenbacker helping her with that christening champagne bottle.
...yep, sounds like an episode of the 20th Century given the narrator is my all time favourite newscaster Walter Cronkite.
My first ever flight was in a 1929 Ford Trimotor that originally was operated by Eastern Air Transport (the predecessor to Eastern Airlines). at an airshow in Milwaukee back in the 1960s. That aeroplane is now owned by the Experimental Aircraft Association having been fully restored to it's original Eastern Air Transport colours.
One aeroplane I wish was mentioned was the Boeing 307 stratoliner which was the first four engine pressurised airliner. Unfortunately it entered service only a couple years before WWII and all were conscripted into military service. By the postwar era surplus C-47s (DC-3) and C-54s (DC-4) were offered in large numbers at reasonable costs to the airlines which snapped them up. During the war, Boeing ceased production of the 307, focusing on production of heavy bombers (the B-17 and B-29) and afterward jet powered strategic bombers. The 377 Stratocruiser, a passenger version of the C-97 military Stratolifter.and KC-97 stratotanker, was their only civil airliner before the 367-80 (what would become the 707). Sadly only a small number (57) of these luxurious giants were built compared to Douglas' DC 6/7 and Lockheed's Constellation series.which each of which numbered in the multiple hundreds. One interesting fact, the 747 wasn't the first airliner with a "spiral staircase", that honour goes to the Stratocruiser which had one leading down to a lounge on a lower level of the fuselage just aft of the wing.
Boeing 307 Stratoliner:
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Boeing 377 lower deck lounge and stairway
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Gosh, wouldn’t it be great for the people back then to see what we have now... how things have changed.
Dc-3 ,fast forward to Concorde's days. Crazy
It will amaze them,however without them we would not been this far.
Wellard smith it's amazing to think that just 10 years later, just 10 short years, men in draught rooms, with designing a supersonic airliner.
Freaking crazy.
Wow. How interresting! Thanx so much from Austria.
Is that Walter Cronkite??? Super Cool!
We've come a long ways, baby.
An long way DOWN
a cross between a model t and a flying saucer
well that wouldve been cool, except the tech wasnt there yet. the closest they got was in the 70s, and that was reengineering a truck to also work as a biplane. the inventor died in a crash
"This is Xray 7, now passing over farmer Brown's pot farm. Over and out."
Fabulous!
4:27 The value of $350 from 1958 to 2024, $350 in 1958 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $3,758.27 today, an increase of $3,408.27 over 66 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 3.66% per year between 1958 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 973.79% (Copy and pasted from CPI Inflation calculator) Nearly 4 grand a pop is like todays 1st class and business class i suppose.
And one important thing i forgot to add They were "BRAVE "
The title may be incorrect here as they spoke of already happened milestones in 1959. But a fun and educational film/tv report.
Amazing images! Thanks for sharing!
Dig that craaaaaaaazy music Jackson
Wow there was a bed for every passenger.
This actually appears to have been produced in 1959.
13:54 - poznávám manželku velkého soudruha Maa. Proč jste ji nechali stát? A jakou má zvláštní obuv?
Age of the Jets dates to 1959.
New York to Paris 7 hours, same as today, six decades later
Comet prototype flew 1949, scheduled flights 1951, 707 prototype flew 1954, scheduled flights 1958.
I appreciate that this short film found it useful to explain the fatigue failure of the de Havilland Comet I. Why then was the propeller whirl instability of the Lockheed L.188 Electra not also explained ?
It could be that the Lockheed L-188 Electra's whirl mode issue had not yet been determined at the time of the production of this film.
It hadn't shown up yet. The Whirl Mode ralted breakups didn't happen until 1960.
One thing that was alluded to, but not explicitly pointed out in relation to the Comet I was that the fatigue failures were only the icing on the cake.
There had been a series of fatal takeoff accidents and one previous turbulence related inflight breakup.
Like all early jets, the Comet I was underpowered at low speeds. This made takeoff technique critical.
The Comet's original wing was very sensitive with reference to angle of attack - the airplane had to be rotated precisely 10 degrees at just the right time in the takeoff roll
(Which would vary according to temperature, altitude and humidity, affecting both the wing and the engines.) If you rotated 9 degrees, the airplane wouldn't take off on any runway that was available. Rotate 11 degrees, or too early, and the induced drag as the airplane tried to fly off will prevent it from accelerating further.
Later Comets got a modification to the leading edge of the wing (Retrofitted to the RCAF's Comets, which, after other modifications, were the only Comet Is to continue flying.)
that reduced the angle of attack sensitivity on takeoff, and more powerful engines, in addition to the structural redesign to make the structure fatigue tolerant.
But, by that time, the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8, which raised performance and range still further, were entering service.
@@WAL_DC-6B Just so - the TV show this film comes from was produced in 1958, and aired in 1959. The Whirl Mode crashes didn't occur until 1960.
Great documentary of the most amazing of human ingenuity the vision of flying
Ohh, This was neato!!!!👍👍👍 Looks like at 12:02 the early signature of the now A380, lol✈️🛫🚅 great VIDEO!!! Jus awesome, awesome!! THANKS for sharing this with me ❤️👍❤️👍
thanks for uploading this fascinating documentary. please allow me to place a request here, because i hope that many aviation fascinated persons might see it: years ago i stumbled on a documentary about autopilots and gyros. they tested the autopilot on a big plane and everything worked perfectly in the beginning. then right before the landing the plane suddenly altered it´s course and they thought the autopilot is broken, but as it turned out the autopilot was correct and just did this maneuver to correct for windspeed, turning of the earth and maybe even other parameters and did find it´s way perfectly to it´s destination.
maybe someone has seen this video and kindly posts a link here? i would appreciate that, thanks a lot in advance. i´m going to post this in other videos as well for increasing the chance of positive feedback. thanks again and greetings from austria :)
It’s becoming an excepted means of public transportation.
Tu-110! A rare shooting.
Great TV program where we could grasp so much evolution towards modern transportation. They forgot to mention about the first airliners with turbo-props being the Viscount, Britannia (and the Canadian CL44) and Vanguard. I remember seeing the Viscount an Vanguard under Air Canada liveries in Montreal. Then, the US reacted with the Electra when France was launching the Caravelle and they should have put more emphasis of the importance of the Caravelle which later was copied and expanded in many different instances (DC-9, Trident, B727, VC10, Il-62, Bac 1-11, Fokker 100, and Regional Jet).
This is not a 1958 documentary. The Convair 880 didn't even fly till 1959.
@For Truth Live in fear.
19:07 wow a tu104 with 4 engines? you mean the super rare tu110 !!! this is the only video footage of one ive ever seen
I remember a video on TH-cam showing all the old airliners as a tribute to a flight attendant named lisa wendy Presley with the famous song as background 'those were the days my friend', if any1 knows could you share link please ?
0:47 I never understood why they got the biggest guy on the bike
8:02 “dont worry Mrs Roosevelt, im sure that will buff right out...”
Great documentary, thank you for posting. Funny the error with the Do-X which of course was not build in Switzerland, but in Germany.
Alphons Vorderwühlbecke Wiki Quote : ”The Do X was financed by the German Transport Ministry and in order to circumvent conditions of the Treaty of Versailles, which forbade any aircraft exceeding set speed and range limits to be built by Germany after World War I, a specially designed plant was built at Altenrhein,[1] on the Swiss portion of Lake Constance."
No TSA, look how fast they load in, we are going backwards!
Not sure about that. 2 days and 11 stops to go NY to LA for $350 in 1958 money ($3,058 today). That will get you a lie-flat first class seat on JetBlue from NY to LA in 5.5 hours.
They where treated as CUSTOMERS, NOT SUSPECTS, we are going BACKWARDS
the two days and 11 stops was in the 30s. Not 1958 @@crabkilla
@@cengeb it's for our safety
Makes me think of Jack Graham. Bombed Flight 629 November 1, 1957 killing his mother and 48 others, executed for murdering his mother 15 months later. No charges for the other victims since no one had thought of making blowing up planes illegal.
Yeah I remember when they used to give u food. Now a bag of chips 6$ and use credit cards
Flying should be so nice now.
good
This must be called the days airplanes blew up, burned up and reached their final destiny.
10:00. Those poor guys. They were forced to wear those leotard swim suits.
probably the style then, not so uptight like today or maybe super humid better than jams
How will planes look like in another 100 years :)
IF Boeing is still around, they will be a mid-sized twin jet with one engine under each wing. Nothing ever changes. THe 737 will still be around then. But they will call it the 737 - 9000 Ultra.
IF possible, subsonic flying wings.
Supersonic jets are coming back. Look up the xb1-boom
They'll look like scrap metal in the ruins of our society.
@@marks6663 You forgot to mention that each 737 will issue Parachutes to it's passengers of course. either that or perhaps Ejection seats for the pax who can shoot themselves to safety should anything go wrong. LOL!!!
How was the footage inside those earliest commercial planes recorded in those times?
On 16mm motion picture film.
Easy, by a man with a crank handle camera standing in the middle of the isle!
Sam Lutfi no man, whine pro.
Walter Cronkite narrating?
Why the Framecounter inside...?
Here's the issue: Tens of thousands of films like this one were destroyed and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like this on online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes.
So, in the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous TH-cam users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content. We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to deal with these kind of issues.
Okay, now I see your Problem and I understand... Sorry for my destructive critic from Yesterday...
I like the counters.
Walter Conkrite narrating.
Just watched this for the first time... at roughly 19:07 into the video it shows what is supposedly a Russian Tupolev TU-104, but every other photo of a TU-104 shows it to be a twin-engine jet with an engine buried in the wing root, one on each size of the fuselage. This video shows two engines on the left side of the wing root, which means this is a 4 engined jetliner. Anyone care to enlighten me as to what the heck this airplane is? It's definitely NOT a TU-104!!!
It sounds like grandma drank all that booze before she broke the bottle.
The Lindbergh's "hopped" to Paris with the fuel capacity in that tiny sea plane!???? Really.
Not a sea plane.
tried again and again and we hv nw a380 and boeing 787😊😊
That's soon to be famed tv actress Francis Bavier, aka Aunt Bee of the Andy Griffith Show, at 7:45. Who else spotted that?
That's one of the reasons I love watching these old films-you see and hear people before they were famous-although Bavier already had a long career on stage and screen, including appearing in "The Day the Earth Stood Still".
So far I've run across a nuclear test film narrated by a pre "Tonight Show" Johnny Carson, a film about the 1967 Canadian Grand Prix narrated by a very young Alex Trebek, and several "Andy Griffith Show" and "Dragnet" alumni.
That was First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt at 7:45, not Francis Bavier.
except that "Francis" is a guy's name only !!
Eleanor Roosevelt.
best full speed Convair 880 and C-990 Coronado 980-1050km p,h
300 bucks and it took over 2 days?? and people complain about Spirit LOL
You don’t know that 300 bucks in the early 1930”s is worth over $5,602.00 today.
full cource meal back then today a lousy cookie
Change the heading to US passenger planes. Britain and Europe were also leaders which is ignored completely
The Comet, Tu-104 and Caravelle ate mentioned.
Do I hear the voice of Walter Cronkite?