SCREAM !! SPEED !! Fastest Boeing707 departure ever seen TMA OD-AGO , Ostend Airport
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- impressive speed , fast , noisy , rolling take off , in a hurry !! NOISY !!
TMA 707 OD-AGO departure , runway 26
Exhilarating show !!
Quality Airport Ostend
Year 2001 ( June )
I was surprised when it finally took off. I thought they were driving to their destination!
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LOL
And not slowly, either. Two times I thought he was throttling up for take off.... nope, just hauling ass down another taxiway.
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@@bastarddoggy me too doggy, that dude hi-tailing it on the taxi way
Crap, I thought he was on his take-off roll about 5 different times. Awesome.
Same here😂😂😂🤦♂️👌
Yes it would have been nice to be at a higher vantage point but it was a nice takeoff. At first glance I thought it was a dc8 but I think 707s have 2 windows above copilot & pilot. And I’m sure there’s like 8 other obvious differences.
@@theferronesThe most notable feature of a 707 is the hf antenna, sticking forward, at the top of the tail.
Same here. It was bombing along all over.
They need a field sobrity test
ATC: The runway is closing in 4 minutes....
707: Hold my beer.
Tbh 😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣 lmao
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Start flapping now
To be continued... thunderbirds are go
Do a search of that tail number! OD-AGO. It had a mid air collision at 11,000 ft with a military jet back in 1979. Ripped half of the vertical stabilizer off. Landed safely, and repaired.
I left Vietnam on a beautiful Braniff International 707-327C on July 4, 1971. Standing in Ton Son Nhut airbase, a grunt only a few days out of the bush, I watched that lovely light green airliner prepare for my flight back to “The World”, and couldn’t believe it was really happening. On Independence Day to boot!
We all cheered as she lifted her nose off and roared into the sky. The flight to Travis Air Base was smooth and seemed to go by in a blink. I’d flown on other 707s during my time in the Army, but that one was very special. One of my favorite photos is of her sitting on the ramp, waiting for me.
Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪,,, thank you for a very interesting story, Aer Lingus the national airline used to fly these. We lived 12 miles away from the airport and depending on wind direction we could hear them taking off, jets had much more character in the 60's and 70's.....
Thank you for your service.
Same here from TonSon Nhut in Nov 1970. What a great feeling it was to be lifting off the ground and heading for home. Wasn't really paying attention to what kind of aircraft it was but it was probably a 707.
Nov.70 for me. I remember it being quiet as we taxied, but as soon as we lifted off a big cheer went up,along with a few tears.
@@countrichardvoncoudenhovek8855 Canada did too, it was the airline Cuni Lingus if i recall correctly
Was working at Boeing plant 2 in Seattle in 1967 when one rolled out of a hangar, rolled a short distance then just about stood on its tail. I was right across the highway, and was ready to duck behind something, expecting it to stall and crash. What I like about this video is the pilot's skill in taxiing. What I saw in 67 was just straight out of a hangar, and into the air in seconds. It was scary as hell to watch. This video is not scary, but pure pleasure in seeing those precise turns. Well done!
Yes, although those fast turns are a bit tough on the L/G. Maybe his ATC slot was expiring. It's got JT3D turbofans and is presumably a dash-320C, but no T/C (turbo-compressor) on the #4 engine. (AFAIK, they were never fitted on #1.)
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The Boeing 707 is a kickass legend of the skies and a beauty. THE BEST ❤
It took the British Air Registration Board to sort it out!!!!
Those pilots appear to have their father’s car out on a Saturday night.. good for them. Great handling while taxiing at highspeed. Pratt motors still getting it done..Incredible catch… thanks for sharing
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I would say they were late for a date with a flight attendant.
It's almost like he had a plane to catch. He doth not stand upon the order of his going.
@@anitamiller7960 😂
The 707 truely brought aviation to the masses. A much under appreciated work horse. Always great to see them flying today. That pilot was undoubtedly an ex-military flyboy.
Who under appreciated it? Is that something you just like to say? “Under appreciated”? “Brought aviation to the masses” ? That was done years before by other planes. The 707 brought JET SERVICE to the mass market in the US, dominating the 60s into the 70s, but the first airline in the world to operate sustained regular jet services on 15 September 1956 was Aeroflot and the Russian Tupolev Tu-104. Then came the DeHavilland Comet. The 707, HARDLY “under rated”, was a much lauded and respected plane it its day, spanning 20 years of service, but basically obsolete in today’s world.
@@outerrealm Actually the Comet was before the Tupolev.
@@outerrealm Um, nope, not so. Air France was operatinga twin engined, jet in about late '53, or early '54, the Caravelle, a bit smaller than B737 is. They were transoceanic , & came into Idlewild regularly, about the size of the Connies operating similar transoceanic routes at the time.
@@Robert_N That 1 lasted about as long asthe Lokheed Electras that came out about '56, for essentially the same reason. It beat the Caravelle by about a yr, but the sympathetic vibrations "killed" it, as they pretty much did those Electras: planes coming to pieces in the air just isn't cool. Aftere enough of them had, even correcting the causes wasn't enough to entice the flying public back aboard them.
Don't overlook the DC-8s & Convair 880s that came out with the 707s , & flew successfully through their lifespan too.
I thought the pilot was ex-rally driver.
Dang...the engine sound was piercing through my speakers. Must have been *loud* in person! And that exhaust...wow. Jet engines have come a long way.
Smok'em if ya got'em.
That is a turbo-jet, much faster than turbo-fan.
I always loved the whine and scream of those engines. Flew on the 707 so many times.
Right. These new turbofans buzz like a prop plane now. These pre 1980 planes where real JETS.
01:23 - look at the nose gear bending!! They are really going for it. I worked on these in the 1970's and they were pretty beaten up then. This old bird has done amazingly to be working like this in 2000.
Blimey, those guys were in a hurry! Never seen a plane taxiing that fast before. Love the little puff of brake dust as the gear started to retract.
and agressive throttle inputs
@@lordred7462 The best kind of throttle inputs
I suspect that the pilot did not want to be there any more than their passengers did.
I've taxied faster but only in a straight line. 57 knots in a C130, all engines LSGI and a 25 knot tailwind. We were COOKING and had to use reverse to slow down once to the cargo ramp to keep from frying the brakes since it was in the desert in summer. Fun times
Can you say Southwest Airlines ?
The 707 was the nuts!!!, I flew on several of them while I was in the Army, including coming home from Vietnam, I used to marvel at how the Pilots of that era used to handle those aircraft prior to take off like this pilot did, I loved it!!!, This vid brought back memories.
At 62, and being a pilot for over 40 years, I must say that I've had the pleasure to fly with this kind of pilots early on in my career. Miss them tremendously. The young guys that I fly with these days just don't have it in them. They are very much into computers but lack good stick and rudder skills. They rely on automation way too much. I like to hand fly below 10,000, both climbing and descending and they engage the autopilot after flap retraction and disengage it on short final. I tell them that planes fly because of Bernoulli and not because of Marconi and they give me a blank look...
Captain, B757
Captain, you sound like you know your stuff, I'd be both honored and feel very safe as your passenger. Thank you for your service.
Indeed. Im an aviator too and kids nowadays rely much on computers and have problems with simple math problems. They miss the joy of really fly an airplane. They miss basic common sense and judgment. Sad.
@@elmiguel6725 Thank you very much for you kind words!
@@joseluismartinez3265 Exactly!
PILOT
My first ever flight overseas was on a 707 in 1989. No in-flight entertainment, so they invited passengers up to the cockpit to chat with the pilots. Great view of Iceland as we passed over.
This 707 is hilarious. I swear, multiple times I thought the plane was on a take-off roll. But it was just taxing so fast. Such an agile pilot. Haha, I will watch this video again for good laughs, the plane is like go go go, let's go while making turns.
There must have been a curfew looming at the destination of this flight. I also love the short but very dusty tap on the brakes as they pull up the gear. Those brakes were working hard that day.
slot time issue... , love it !
I imagine the braking of the wheels is automatic as the gear is retracted. You see this dust with other types too, though rarely as clearly as this.
Thanks for the comment, first time i noticed the event of wheel braking during retraction.
Boeing do design the retraction system to apply a little brake pressure when the gear is selected to retract. It removes any gyroscopic precession from putting twisting loads on the retract linkages. Not sure about the 707, but the 747 applies about 360 psi to the brakes during retraction.
@@christopheklinger3217 A lot of planes use rubbing blocks mounted in the landing gear bay where the wheels slow once making contact with the block in their fully retracted state. Usually, this is for nose gears. On many flights, you can hear the wheels rubbing to a stop after gear retraction. If I'm not mistaken, the 737 uses this.
The 747 may be the queen of the skies but the 707 is the king. The one that got the ball rolling and set the standard for almost every passenger jet design sInce. And the “voice” of the 707, the Pratt & Whitney JT-3s, will always be the ultimate sound in jet power.
No it did not. The DC3 set the standard for passenger aircraft and the DC8 was a superior aircraft over the 707.
nope the 707 is better it can fly upside down and is an icon for the USA as the 707 or -80 was before it and was made into a 707 and KC-135 it still flies and the DC-8 has less flying JT-3s, will always be the ultimate sound in jet power the DC-8 was not and the 707 made more money
@@nathanwestinghouse1859 I was talking about the jet age, not piston airliners. The 707 outsold the DC-8 1010 to 556 and the 707 is still flying today for military service in America and Europe. Although the DC-8 was never converted to military use it was still a beautiful, graceful jet that also used the JT3 engines.
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@@semperfipar1299 Yes, but the 707 ushered in the jet age as far as commercial airline travel is concerned. That fact isn't even up for dispute.
Makes me sad they are all gone. A favorite sound, sight and memory from my youth
Almost all gone.
I recently saw a Boeing 707 320 at March ARB in California . OMEGA TANKER N707MQ with the old original JT3D engines. It's on TH-cam. It took me back to the 70s.
@@747heavyboeing3 The military is still flying KC-135s and other 707 variants. The last I heard they will still be flying them until 2040.
There still might be a few KC-135 stationed at Selfridge AFNG north of Detroit.
Selfridge also has KC-10, and A-10. Have to keep the Hogs flying, and fueled.
When Boeing were making the greatest aircrafts
we fly them out of SLC too. lots of KC135's left@@peterresetz1960
As a kid in the late 70’s living next to JFK,right in the flight path,I remember those Smokey,noisy green 707’s with the yellow tail,they caught my eye…always loved watching the planes,thx for bringing back the memories with this video 👍
So I was flying from New York City to Pittsburgh on a 707 around 1960. My flight was delayed a few times for a few hours and by the time it was actually ready to go to Pittsburgh, there were only 3 passengers left because all the rest had enough sense to reschedule. Well, that empty plane really took off hard. I was pushed back into my seat by the acceleration. I'm still impressed.
@soaringvulture Sounds like you were treated to a unique experience in civillian aviation. I can imagine such an experience, the screeming jets and forceful accelaration, left a lasting impression !
I was on a mostly empty MD-88 leaving Detroit once. The late flight, which was scheduled on a maybe 1/3 full CRJ-700, was swapped at the last minute because they needed to get an MD-88 to the destination airport for a flight the following morning. It was the hardest I've ever been pushed back into the seat and by far the shortest takeoff roll I've experienced. Everyone should get to experience a minimal load takeoff at some point. It's quite the experience.
@@trespire yup, covid was probably the only other time people could have experienced this. I’ve seen pictures where there’s only like 1, 2, or maybe even 3 passengers on the whole plane during covid. I’m positive that much less weight was definitely noticeable during takeoff and landing.
I know the feeling. My first flight on a 747 was from DFW to Los Angeles with less than 50 passengers on board. Boy, did AA lose money on that one. With that light of a load, combined with only a partial load of fuel for a 1200 mile flight, that big rascal shoved off like an F16. Well, not actually that hard of course but plenty impressive and quite unexpected. My God, 707s were ear-splitting loud.
A long time ago I had the same experience flying on a 737 and from taxing to the run away take off, this pilot was gunning it and fell back hard on my seat not expecting it....but it sure was a rush.
I saw this TMA 707 overflying my house many times back in the day, low on approach to OLBA RWY 18. This and MEA's 707s and 720s were the soundtrack of my teen years. Loved every minute of it.
in February 1979, this same Lebanese cargo 707 was in a md-air collision with a Taiwanese F-5. The vertical stabilizer was mostly torn off, and there was damage to the rear fuselage, but the pilots successfully got the 707 back on the ground in mainland China, where it was repaired and returned to service.
My very first flight, from Idlewild to Frankfurt in 1961, was on a Pan Am 707, and it was a thrill. Since then I’ve been all over the world, from Europe to the Far East, on 707s.
I was a Flight Attendant for Pan Am. The 7-0's as we use to call them were long gone by the time I came aboard but I flew on the 747's quite often to far away destinations. Wonderful layovers. I felt guilty taking a pay check. It was so much fun. I never had a job to where I couldnt wait to go to work. The memories.
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Although JAL and Singapore were a bit more luxurious, I always felt at home on Pan Am 747s to and from Tokyo. The least comfortable part of those trips was the seemingly endless ride from Narita to and from the city. In the ‘70s we could still use Haneda.
I flew on a couple of British Airways 707s, one still in BOAC colours to and from Canada back in 1974. It seemed to take ages before they took off but I loved it, big grin on my face 😁
The captain walked through on the way back and 13yr old me asked what speed we were doing when we took off. He invited me up to the cockpit for 10 minutes and let me sit in his seat whilst he went back into the cabin again.
I was there for longer than 10 minutes and I remember my right leg kept shaking from the excitement.
The co-pilot said that GEORGE was flying the plane and he was sat with his legs up above the yoke on his side.
Around the many flick switches by the throttles there were little white bezzles. He pulled one off & said, "do you want a polo mint?" 😄
We were then flying over Shannon in Irish airspace and he was speaking to one of their controllers. He said that at the other end there was a man on the end of a telephone 📞
I've had many flights in my life but those 707s were the best and most comfortable. 😊
precious and unforgettable experience , thanks for sharing your fabulous memory
I also got to sit in the captains seat in the mid 80's. I was maybe 8 years old. The times were indeed different. Pre 9/11 it was pretty common that the cockpit door was open most of the time.
@@maxwildcard2403 We had a (railway) staff weekend in Jersey in the mid 90s flying from Southampton on a turboprop. Can't remember what the plane was now, maybe a Saab, but all they had was a curtain separating the cockpit from the cabin and that was open when we came into land.
My friend has always cursed because he he didn't ask to go up front on a Gill Air ATR(?) coming back from Paris to Bournemouth in the 90s. We were only 2 of 3 passengers and as traincrew they may have been more inclined to let him go up front for a look. He did it on a Eurostar train in later years on his way to Paris with his family.
Yup, that was fun to watch. I had 3 takeoffs and 3 landings from Vietnam having been there two years and extending twice. They were pretty thrilling. Coming in they'd drop out of the sky and land as quick as possible, leaving your stomach still up there. They wanted as little exposure on the approach or takeoff to enemy fire as possible, and take offs were just as exhilarating, since they wanted to get out of there as quickly as possible. Those pilots would really lay into those engines. I think we all remember those flights.
Absolutely love it! Brings back so many great memories. Whilst at Manchester in the late 60's, I was blown off a tree by a Pan Am 707 at the Airport Hotel at the end of runway 24. I fell into the airport grounds & was arrested by the police. I was only about 8 years old 😆😂😁👍😀
thanks , sharing this witty reply , in retrospect :)
So, that's your story and you're STILL sticking to it. 😉
@Steve K yeah, 'onest gov , it was that plane that blewed me off the tree 😂😂🤣
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What a neat shot of the brake dust when the brakes were applied before gear retraction. Never seen that before. Awesome stuff.
Nice observation. Check out just about any KC-135R video after they takeoff. Very easy to see. CFM-56s are not as smokey. The snubbing of the brakes at gear retraction in the KC-135R are automatic.
The 707 just has a steady gracefulness about it .. sure miss seeing it in the skies...
That pilot was in quite a hurry! Unusual plane too. 707 with no cabin windows. Late tech turbojets, so much less smoke than the early ones. Thanks for sharing this.
You are right! , still an amazing sight and sound
Damn these guys were in a hurry and taxiing pretty fast even when making a turn.
The video is speed up
@ReptileRescue One reason may be because to get to the 26 end of the runway, they have to taxi a significant distance on the runway itself!
I thought they had been diverted to a road coarse and were just ahead of everybody else!
That crew was not messing about. Awesome vid. I miss the old low bypass noises.
This has got to b the longest taxi in the history of aviation. Loved it. 👍😊
heheee 😄 , normally it takes much longer , noisy as well , but in this case shrieking even more , fortissimo magic 😅
Gives a whole new appreciation to the phrase: "Drive it like you stole it!" That was impressive. I had a comparable experience standing on the other side of the fence as a SR71 Blackbird took off from Calgary in 1996 after an airshow. The thunderous rumble nearly stopped my heart in my chest. I had ringing in my ears for over an hour! Never forget that.
Well said!
Witnessed a 747 do a “max climb” take off when it was empty, meaning no pax or cargo. Quite impressive! Most commercial aircraft have impressive capabilities, they just take it easy when passengers are on board, for obvious reasons.
Now that's what a real aeroplane should sound like.
I flew in one of these when they first came out. It was a big difference from my flights in a DC3 in the 50s. Eighty years after first production, that little tail dragger still flys into dirt fields in jungles around the world today. The 707 is in museums.
at least one is in flying status in the US , also Awacs and KC-135 are still flying (CFM ) , prefer the small diameter nacelles and better sounding original engines though
One of the best airliner/cargo airplanes ever built...
Beautiful sound from one of the best 4 engine planes ever built.
Can't see a Boeing 707 and not think of the movie Airport that made it popular in my estimation.
Great catch on a classic airliner.👍
I think the only plane that sounds better than a 707 without hush kits is the B-52 simply because there are four more screaming jet engines.
The runway scene in Bullitt at SFO is high up there the scream of those engines!
Remind me to send a thank you note to Mr. Boeing.
@@disastertom I have the DVD of the movie... I keep it as "pristine" as I can; and watch it quite frequently...just for the enjoyment of it all
@@disastertom That's one nice thing about the 707 can do anything but read
Love the smoke trails of the old planes. Feels like watching the B52 take off. My first flight was on a 707 back in the day, and my mom was a flight attendant on a brand new one that was delivered to Northwest way back. She said it was so much nicer over the Electra that she was on before, so peaceful and quiet! 👍🤠
same engines as the B52, basically.
Primitive.
On a B-52 (and also a KC-135 tanker, A model, Boeing 717) the real smoke you see is from the water injection.
And the smell 🥰 yeah I’m like that
This is a B720
Super. I love the 707. 💙 T.E.N.
Gorgeous. I love it. In Toronto at YYZ, we almost never had Boeing 707's. It was almost exclusively DC8's. I never had a chance to fly on one, unfortunately. What a beautiful airplane. Aarre Peltomaa
As a young teenager, I flew on a chartered Braniff 707 to Yakota AFB, Japan, via Anchorage, which we called the "Green Pickle" due to its totally dark green livery. This old TMA bird in the vid sure brought back fond memories. Especially reminded me of my first sight of one of the new C-5 Galaxy's, which parked directly next to our "pickle" shortly after we landed at Yakota. Seeing how it jaw-droppingly dwarfed the once mighty 707 put dreams of flying on one in my head, and which I ended up doing just a few years later during my Air Force time as a flightline mechanic at Travis.
Got to live in heaven at Dover, AFB with the C-5's, then Misawa, Japan with the 13th TFS, F-16's.
What beautiful planes these were... Fast and smooth... I remember when an airline I worked at, had several DC-8 super 80 series planes re- engined with CFM-56 high-bypass engines... That was a real Hot-Rod... I remember the pilots commenting on the amazing performance those planes had, on their impressive rate of climb, and the reduced take-off distance... The main problems with the type of engine changes were: 1) Slowing them down on decent, 2)Damage to the flaps and associated tracks/fittings because of the larger diameter jet thrust path of the High bypass CFM-56 engines vs. the original JT-3C / J57 Jet engines. Several of the companies that manufactured the earlier Jet passenger plane designs from the 50's- 60's were outstanding... My favorites from that time, were the Convair 880's & 990's... That must have been an amazing time seeing the transition from the large piston engine transports to the Jet engine large passenger planes that could travel at nearly twice the speed and over 3x the altitude of their earlier piston engine planes....
As a kid in the late 1950's, my parents often had to pick up relatives at Burbank airport. They always came in and flew out on Lockheed Constellations. I loved the sound and the smoke on startup. We always stayed until the planes took off, sometimes in a parking lot at the end of the runway to wave to Auntie leaving for home. The sound!!! My first plane ride was on a brand new turboprop Electra from Burbank to San Francisco for Christmas with Gramma. In 1979 I got stranded in Venezuela after the crash of American 191 where all DC-10's were grounded. After 8 days of waiting standby, I was able to board a beat up Braniff 707 (museum piece?) to put back in service. I was called from the standby line to go from Maracaibo to Miami, the last person to board. I thoroughly enjoyed that ride knowing that it would probably be the first and last 707 I ever flew in.
Side note: I was booked from Albany to Ohare to LAX to go home and start my vacation on May 25th, 1979. Something weird overcame me as I waited for my cab outside the Holiday Inn in Schenectady. I flew all over the world for GE and loved air travel. I had the cabbie take me to the office instead of the airport. I refused to get on any plane that day...not knowing why. A supervisor talked me into going to Venezuela for a job assignment. I had multiple paid-for commuter plane tickets to fly from Albany to JFK and back on the twin turboprop Metroliner, a flight that I enjoyed every time. BUT....I took a Greyhound bus for the crappy 4 hour ride from Schenectady to Manhattan to get my Visa. I NEVER ride the bus. Some slob next to me coughed and snorted the whole way there, all 4 hours. The commuter flight is one hour at 15,000 feet and I always watched cars and trucks on the highways below. Window seats were my first choice everywhere.
I got my passport stamped in the Consulate in Manhattan and took a much needed afternoon nap after booking my flights to Venezuela for the next morning. I woke up and called my parents at 9 Eastern time, 6:00 LA time, to say that I wasn't coming home in case they didn't figure it out already. They were crying, unable to speak. My brother got on the phone and said that they were sure that I got killed on AA191 that crashed after takeoff (after a GE engine flew off the wing upon rotation). 273 people perished. It was on every TV station but I didn't know. They called me 3 more times up to 2AM Eastern time with every excuse. I think they needed reassurance that I was alive. The next morning, I flew on 2 DC-10's and a DC-9, KFK to Miami to Caracas to Maracaibo, a very enjoyable trip, without a single worry about flying at all. 1979 was the weirdest year of my life and the 191 crash was only halfway through the year. In 1982 I got to ride in Bob Love's P-51D Mustang twice. But that's another story!
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Wow! Very cool and interesting!
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@@kimmer6 the story behind what actually caused the AA flt #191, is something that showed how important it is to follow procedures, when working on things, especially aircraft... The way the crews felt of how to save time on engine changes, caused the worst single plane accident in the U.S. At first , several people were quick to blame the mfgr. of those planes, Douglas... But further investigation revealed how the structure in the pylons that held the engines onto the wings were weakened by circumventing procedures on engine removal's and installations.... Always follow procedures in the manual, in this case, the AMM.... Had they done that, it probably would have taken longer to do that work, but that flight (AA #191 on 5/25/1979) probably would have safely made it's destination without anything unusual happening... Hopefully people have learned what NOT to do to save money & time... Always follow procedures from the manual...
@@michaelmartinez1345 The forklift hydraulics leaked down over lunch time and cracked the engine mounting area.
@@kimmer6 Yes they did... And nowhere in the procedures did it say to use a forklift to support the engine... This was a totally unauthorized method that was being used to remove and install these engines... And 273 people's lives and a plane was destroyed because of using this unauthorized method.... Other DC-10 planes had cracked 'tombstone' fittings because this unauthorized method was used.... NEVER DEVIATE the procedures when working on things as critical as aircraft... The methods that are now used involve the proper equipment and procedures to do work like this... The plane design was NOT at fault ....
I flew on one of these when I left Lackland AFB, Texas enroute to Chanute AFB, Illinois, during early 70's. I think the pilot knew we were heavy. He turned around at the very end of the runway, locked the brakes and went full throttle. With the engines screaming, he released the brakes and we were rolling. We went forever, then we lifted off....and came back down. We kept going and lifted off briefly a second time...and came back down. I saw the tower go by and knew we had passed the point of no return. The pilot got us off the ground on third attempt and we literally brushed tree tops beyond the runway. 707's were great aircrafts.
Chanute AFB! Feb 1977- April 77 3354 sqdn
This is THE jetliner that REALLY got the jet passenger service started and many are still flying 60+ years later !!! They set the standard and the basic design that is still followed today !!!
I flew from London to Australia in a 707 with what must have been 7 or 8 fuel stops back in 1964 - what a thrill and adventure !
I did the same in 1965, stops at New York, San Francisco, Honolulu and Nadi. Best flight crew ever!
I also flew in a Qantas 707 as a 23 years old in 1971 as a 10 pound migrant from Heathrow. Stopping at.
Bahrain, New Delhi. Singapore, Darwin, Brisbane, Sydney. And then TAA domestic to Melbourne... Now 76...
I grew up under O'Hare's flight path and those older planes were loud; 707's, DC8's, 727's, DC10'S. It never ceases to amaze me how quiet the current passenger jets are.
I went to a Marine bootcamp in 1980 at MCRD San Diego. We used to run the road along the runway of the airport there. The noise was constant and deafening and constantly interrupted training. Drill instructors regularly used the fact we couldn’t hear against us, accusing privates of not listening or failing to follow instructions. The old jets were very loud, often for minutes after they took off and even out of sight, then another one would start his take off roll… ah the old days.
@@oldjarhead386 I flew on a Qantas 707 in 1974 London to Sydney which is the longest route in the world
Flipin WOW and WOW again ! And I'm not surprised there was a load of break dust, he wasn't hanging about for nobody and love those colours 😲
…no wasted time for this crew…fast taxiing and zero pause in the departure runway…
…great to see these Pratt & Whitney screamers still giving me the same feeling I had riding one from Denver to LAX/Disneyland in 1963… 👀👍🏼🦻🏻✈️
i’ve flown on a 707 over 40 years ago !!!! the sound of those engines was Fantastic!!!!! it sounded so powerful!!!
Sounded but wasn’t
@@fgrau7376 sounded but wasn’t??????????????
@@coronavirus4you648 as in sounded powerful but they weren't
@@coronavirus4you648 JT3c ???? Right???? May have been a powerhouse in 1959 but not so much now
This is a seasoned 707 jockey! When lightly loaded they were pretty nimble on the ground thanks to the widely-spaces main gear.
Also, with it's large wing area, a lightly loaded 707-320 series could climb like hell.
I know little but I guess he had very little to no load and somewhere to be ( or having fun!)
IKR? Navy vet here, I don't know anything about planes per se but I could tell that pilot was beyond badass the way he low-key 'd that puppy all around the runways like a man slipping on his favorite house shoes almost by rote... anybody know the backstory?
@@family-accountemail9111 He could have had a full load and little fuel, but, most likely the other way around. The 707-320B/C series was a very good performer for it's time.
absolutely wonderful! Pliots after my heart.....THATS how you fly a plane.
such a beautiful , majestic, noisy, gas guzzleing old bird!!!! rode in one many times and i felt like a millionare! [ that was a lot of money back then , would probably pay for half the plane!]
And there she goes up again, what a beauty!
The plane that started the jet age! What a masterpiece!
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I "know" the Comet had a few accidents, before the safer Comet.4's arrived......But,
But are you saying that Boeing 707's were flying BEFORE the Comet(s) & BEFORE 1949 ?
Much as I "love" the 707 it wasn't THE plane that started the jet age = (Fact)
@@hawnyfox3411 it was the plane that made it more affordable and became the jet aircraft that the airlines wanted. Sheesh.
There were a few other but the BOEING 707 was Boeing's first quad jet airplane.
I can remember staying at a motel near Dallas Love Field when I was a kid, and watching these things take off with a trail of black smoke. I also remember having trouble sleeping with the noise. LOL!
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went to school near Love field as a kid remember always getting yelled out for staring out the window watching them take off... and watching for Braniff's "Fat Albert" the orange 747's noon take off for Hawaii !!!
Never seen a jet corner so well in the turns
Such a sleekly beautiful plane. Notice the lack of fuel tanks on the wings. I flew the 707 to Europe as a five year old child and the sound of the engines upon take-off was the most exciting moment of my childhood! Now the jets and cabins are significantly quieter, which makes flying more enjoyable, but takes away that thrilling former loud scream and rumble at the start...
*_Former Boeing Everett... gotta love the sound of old school turbojets_*
Back in the day, commercial jets sounded very similar to military jets. The B707 was a 'work in progress' that led to development of other purpose built planes. 707 was initially designed to be an aerial re-fuel tanker for the military.
*_Someone thinking outside the box said if it's good enough to haul fuel, it's good enough to haul passengers_*
BOAC 1964. Prestwick to Malton International in Toronto was my first flight - alone - at age 8. Still remember the wicker cigarette cart. Great flight.
The 707 and the 747 the only true DREAM LINERS ever built by Boeing!
Now there is a blast from the past. When I went to work at Dallas Love Field in 1965, across the runway I could see Braniff's headquarters and hangar. Parked in back was a retired DC-6, with an amazing purple paint job. Turns out it was a trial design for the multi-colored fleet scheme that Braniff was developing with the help of the artist, Alexander Calder. The beginning of very interesting times indeed.
Love the sound of a non-environmental jet🇺🇸
Wish they were still making them.
When a solider with the Aussie Armoured Corps, I few once on an 707, with the RAAF. It was half gas tank refueler, and half passenger (at the rear of the plane). Flew from Tindal Airbase in Northen Territory Australia to Richmond Air base outside of Sydney. Very tight turn over the Blue Mountains into Richmond Air Base runway. At the time, US forces were pulling out of Exmouth Learmonth Western Australia where they had had a naval base during the Cold War. At Richmond was given a guided tour of a USAF C5 Galaxy which was on its way to the now defunct naval base to ship equipment back to the States. What a monster!
thank you for sharing your wonderful memory , regards
I began my serious travelling in 707s in the '60s... happy days.
holy cow, the amount of rare/uncommon planes (to a north american - don't cry and try to correct me lol) in this vid is astonishing and then a 707 driving like a race car and taking off with the water injection and a puff of brake dust *chef kiss*
ANTONOV prop transport AN 12 , giant An 124 and Ilyushins , another 707 tail visible: Memphis Air , quality airport Ostend , noisy birds 🤩
Absolutely fantastic video! What an amazing catch this is, definitely one to cherish. 👍
This takes the saying “drive it like you stole it” to a whole new level!
Flew on a 707 back in the late 60's. It was my first ever flight on any aircraft and most memorable.
“..but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.”
Great to see a TMA video. I used to work for them at Heathrow in the late 70’s early 80’s. Thanks for sharing the video.
Props to the pilot!
Definitely wheeled that heft with precision and balls.
One of the most BEAUTIFUL aircraft, ever conceived. PERIOD!!!
perfection
Absolutely beautiful! Brings back so many great memories. Just wonderful!
Big Al Brunswick Travolta's Qantas 707 is up here in Brunswick, GA, at the Brunswick-Golden Isles airport, in storage. Been here for a few years, awaiting purchase by the aviation museum in Australia. But there are also some Omega Air 707 Tankers that come and go here for maintenance...great to see them occassionally !!!
many times in the 1960s i flew as passenger on 707s out of Europe - destinations were Brazzaville , Leopoldville , Libreville , Khartoum , Luanda, Entebbe , Nairobi , Salisbury , and Johannesburg .
Having been a test flight crew member in the late 1990s and early 2000s...on the Douglas DC8 -50/ 60/ 70 models and very similar to the B707, it appears they might be doing high speed taxi runs as part of a maintenance test flight.
We often did the same high speed taxi for " ground testing braking / undercarriage", then took off to finish the "in flight" portion of the "acceptance testing".
This was normally done when our aircraft came out of " heavy maintenance " work.
I did these tests for two different DC8 operators in the USA. Emery Worldwide Airlines, Dayton Oh, and Arrow Air, Miami. Both long out of business.
There are no DC8 , or B707 operators left flying today. Both a result of high maintenance costs and operating costs associated with Stage 3/4 noise regulations and the high fuel efficiency of modern 2 engine aircraft of today. But both beautiful , comfortable, long range aircraft. A sight to see in the sky with their large wingspan. Very similar.
The DC8 was better, imo, and thus lasted longer than the 707 in the cargo airline industry. ie: UPS, DHL, Burlington Air, EWA, Arrow, and others.
Did I see brake dust when the landing gear came up? Unreal, full power take off! Love it!
you did , as a matter of fact was a trademark of 707's at Ostend , at least all elderly 707 freighters did , another superb extra visual , just as the design and smoke , ear shattering sound , fortissimo heaven ;)
one of my favourite 1960s 70s aircraft the Boeing 707 i miss the sound of them screaming ear piercing engines 🤩😍🥰
727 is my favorite small jet of the past.
The Boeing 707 is still one beautiful airplane. There is something about them that says solid, safe, and always dependable. After all, its hermitage tells you It can endure, and bring you safely home.
Back when the Boeing name meant something. Today not so much.
I can still remember the half-dozen or so captains from around Miami back in the 1980s, and 1990s who would taxi a 707 like that... the snapping and popping sounds heard in the cockpit, coming from the nose gear area on those hard turns could be a bit alarming.
around then that was probably all the cocaine rattling around
My dad flew the USAF version, the KC-135 (and the KC-97 before it). He said the "military power" option was available in the domestic version ... if the pilot wanted. He went on to be a test pilot for Boeing, and often said the cargo pilots took advantage of it, but (undestandably) the passenger pilots were more restrained.
Pat! That has to be the best 707 video I’ve ever seen!!
Man that pilot was almost doing donuts on that taxi roll !!
Man! What a collection of S turns on that taxiway!!
That 707 was flying through those turns!!
What a take off too!! Straight up to the heavens!!
I’d love to meet that pilot and hear what he has to say about his beloved machine!!
You can tell just by the way he was handing her he was in love!!
4,000 ft per minute was surly being demonstrated !
707’s forever to the heavens !
Oh thank heaven for seven oh seven!!
awesome indeed , quality airport Ostend , twilight years of 707 freight operations , cheers Marty 😉
I flew in the KC-135 for 4 years in the late 1950's. It was the same airframe as the 707. Great airplane fast and safe and handled like a B 25. The one fault was the air pack air conditioning didn't work very well while on the ground.
We set several records for weight, distance, speed and rate of climb in 1957.
thanks , precious times , respect , i salute you !
That scream at 1:31 is simply amazing
1st time I flew across the Pacific Pan Am 747 LAX- HON, 707 after that.I was 15, complained to mom and dad about the the tight 707 seats and fuselage. They schooled me quick as they'd flown the world in Connies and D.C.'s. I learned.
First flight I ever was a part of was at four years old on an American 707 from JFK to LAX in the summer of 1966... What an experience!
Ground: "Pushback is approved."
Co-Pilot: "V1."
Tower: "Backtaxi is approved."
Co-Pilot: "V1."
Maybe not the newest and latest plane out there but the pilot knew he had the coolest sounding airplane when taking off.
My Dad flew 707's for decades, legendary bird.
High speed turns means a great deal of shoulder wear on the tyres, requiring them to be changed early, It only has turbo compressors on 2 and 3 pylons, 707s usually had 3, but perhaps the 720 derivative only had 2.
Apart from that bloody marvelous video the 707 was a happening glad i got to know them !
This is me in MSFS 2020 lol. I always wondered what it would look like if a pilot treated the taxiway like a race track!
Fly it like you stole it....... 😂😂 Awesome. Always enjoy hearing a 707 with original engines.
Brought back memories of the old "dollar thirty-five" aerial tanker. A great ride, but loud!!! I remember when they replaced the engines. It's one long lasting airframe!
Dear TMA and MEA 🇱🇧 have safe flights. Always.
I have wonderful memories of being on the 707; but I must admit that the re-engined Convair 580 ... I literally "could not hear myself think" as I sat in the passenger seat.
It was great. Wow. Love this video. The plane being thrown around the airport almost. Not every day that you see something like that. Great looking old 707 there. Love the paint job etcetera......