Airport PAST#8: Early Jet Age - Miami International Airport - Pt 1* Pan Am & National Airlines Era
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- Part -2 The age of Eastern and rise of Air Florida
Part -3 The coming of American Dominance
This first part of this 3 part series places heavy focus on two of original powerhouses
at MIA budding jet age, Pan Am (Pan American World Airways) and National Airlines. Pan Am dominated the gateway
to Latin and South America with flights to every capital down south and flying every
aircraft in the fleet from MIA. Miami based National Airlines had it’s main base of
operations here. National’s very cool logo, the Sun King, was seen across the northern
US as the way to get to Florida, the number one vacation spot for northerners! It was
The east coast’ Vegas back then but it came with stunning beaches definlng the word
relax! In this series are many of carriers seen only at this airport along with National
and Pan Am. Every US carrier who could get there, came there. And they came ‘heavy’
bring their largest jet transports, TWA, Delta and others brought there 747s, L-1011s
and DC-10s here…
Check them out!
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Back then aviation was simple, pure,... flight attendands were so cute and polite...you could smell the sweet scent of fuel right in your nose...you could almost touch the airplanes when they landed, taxied or took off...everything was so cool!! Who does not miss those golden years??? I do...
You are not alone, many simply have to treasure those memories!
I don’t miss people smoking on board and the potential for catastrophic death mid flight.
Nor do I miss the potential for terrorists to simply check in a bomb and not board the flight ✈️
So no I don’t miss those days. Today flying is much quicker and safer.
@@rc70ys And I don't miss when the passenger seats were either expensive (coach) or REALLY expensive (1st class).
I grew up during the 60s under the approach of runway 27 of Schiphol Airport, and I was very glad when these old jets with their loudly whining engines and deep rumbling after passing over, got phased out by newer types propulsed by the much less noisy high bypass turbofan engines.
The joke there is that passenger seats are now getting back to being expensive or really expensive. Again. @@WAL_DC-6B
OH MANNNNNN BRINGS BACK MEMORIES..THANK YOU
Great job, it was such a great time to be a kid avgeek in the 70s and 80s. 😀👍
Thanks man, and yes those were times to be in Av!
So so true yep.
In the 60s too. I watched the transition from prop to turboprop to jet to fanjet - a lot of fun still vivid in my mind.
From the early 1970s through 1983, my dad worked for Eastern Air Lines, National Airlines, and then (following the merger of National with and into PAA) Pan American World Airways. Pass-riding heaven. I remember my dad would tell me, when we were sitting in First Class, "you can order as many Cokes as you want to order." LOL.
Great that these films exist. Love the video.
Yes, it is a necessary share!
I was a 19 year old station manager in Miami for Florida Airlines in 1978. Brings back wonderful memories - Thanks!
Another great one! Grew up in Miami and my father worked for Eastern 1963-1977. And, THE Fast Air 707-F @32:50
Both of my parents worked for National 1950 - 1978. My dad retired right before the idiots at Pan Am bought the airline.
Fantastic footage. Golden age of aviation. Miss those day
The L-1011 was my favorite airplane back in the day, it was a wide body behemoth that would rumble down the runway and majestically rise to command the skies! She was an awesome bird! they certainly don't make'em like that anymore!
You are not kidding Kenneth, you simply had to experience it!
Not even a glimpse of one of the most colorful airlines of the day at MIA back then, VARIG.
This is a treasure chest in a 49 minute video! Great job!!
Thanks for that!
As a child I rode on the very first TWA 707 flight from Miami to St Louis. I believe it was around 1960 and although I don't remember much, I do recall that the flight was very loud
I worked in that eastern hanger for ten years. Used to love watching the airplanes take off and land. Mia had some unique aircraft show up.
Excellent, so much Eastern coming in the next part of the series..you gotta be in there somewhere!
Miamians, look at 1:21 (the old National Airlines HQ). The facade of that two-story building looks awfully familiar. Sure enough, it's the George T. Baker Technical College, 3275 NW 42nd Ave, Miami, FL -- the one with the Vietnam-era Skyhawk fighter jet parked in the front.
good stuff here, i used to be a flight attendant for Continental and used to fly the 747-100 to London from Miami!
Also Viasa dc10 and National 747. Awesome video. The good old days
I flew on a National 747 from New York City to Miami on St. Patrick's Day in March of 1973.
I lived in Miami in the 1960s and 70s. Both of my parents worked for National Airlines, damn I miss it all.
Dad worked for National originally at Jacksonville Imeson Airport and then moved to current JAX International Airport location until Pan Am went bankrupt. National really did have great logo. I appreciate the Southern Airlines shot, as one of dads best friends worked for Southern. I used to go hang out with them and watch these beauties come and go. Nice video!
Interesting, I came across a clip of 3 National Airlines 727s I wanted to use here, but they were parked at a black/dark concourse which clearly was not Miami. I could not tell which airport it was, then a firetruck came into view labeled 'Jacksonville Fire Dept. I was like, cool a different locale for National should I one day do National at the cities they served video!
National at one time had over 20 flights a day to JAX.Right before the Pan Am merger National really cut back at JAX down to 6 flights a day and Pan Am did not last long at JAX.National also pulled out of DAB and TLH before the merger.
It was a real shame during that decline. I still have some of dads old nightly close outs, flight schedules (back before there was a teletype) etc..and a lot of his ramp and gate stuff. Neat old stuff. Funny how we hold on to memories.
@2trd mustang GT Ford F1 HD SGS Fat Boy my grandad was part of the move for National from JAX (Imeson) to MIA. Heard lots of stories about the Maytag strike and many others.
@@trafficsignalman yep, dad was a mechanical minded person and he made ends meet repairing cars during the numerous strikes between the airline employees association and the Maytags. Sadly, with pan am, came the teamsters union, they were less than helpful to the former AEA union members. The ending national and later of pan am was a bad time for dad. He never really recovered financially. I believe the Maytags made out very well.
Grew up in Hialeah. Loved to watch them land and take off. Flew from there when I got drafted. Good memories hanging around the airport
awesome, this video will do it!
So much variety back then. Loved the dc10 and l10 11. Today everything has two engines. So boring
Totally agreed!
Omg I know! I love the trijets!
Don’t diss my A350 and 777
Wow!!! 49 minutes of pure aviation pleasure!!! MIA has quite a history! Thank you for sharing it with us!!! All the best from here where I sit along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, west coast of Florida!!!
Thanks man!
What a blast from the past. Total eargasm! Loved the shots of the straight piped 707 with twin Beech under the wing. Thanks
Yes indeed it is!
Thank you very much for sharing it brings back. Great memories. I was born and raised in Miami and my dad worked for Eastern before they went bankrupt. We knew a lot of people, and it was a real treat to fly back in the day.
Awesome videos, keep them coming. I could watch these all day long. I miss these days !
There are many out here just like you ..and me!
A time when airline travel was unique, and EXCITING THE GOLDEN AGE FOR AIRLINES AND TRAVEL.
Now that I’m 18 and I’m starting to see planes retire, I can only imagine what it must feel like to see every plane in here has been retired to someone who grew up with them
A very very wise observation that every young aviation fan must grasp...because you appreciate all that you are able to see today but are armed with some insight of what came before and that 'which' led us to all that you see today. Excellent comment.
Seth Guardado ... it’s sad 😞 Seth. See my comments above
Oh! How I miss corrosion corner! Minimal to nearly non-existent security. Was so much fun to explore old airliners.
Is that what that area was called? Too funny...
Ex National here, back in the days when an airline career meant something, left the day Pan Am took over, retired after 25 years FEDEX, National was the best company I ever worked for, the old crews were a great bunch, the Stews were gorgeous....
Great to hear from you man, thanks for checking in on this!
I used to be a F/A for National then Pan Am. Now I’m a pilot for Delta. Many great times and stories over the last 41 years!
@@debbiedinkins6808 ah yes, the true National/Pan Am veterans are emerging!
Glad to provide you with some familiar imagery showcasing that magical once in a lifetime experience!
Both of my parents worked for National Airlines. I loved to go to Miami International Airport with my dad back in the 1970s. I can still smell the diesel, jet fuel and cigarettes.
Thank you for the memories! I remember every last one of those airlines (yes I’m THAT old) and to this day the B-707 and DC-8 hold a special place in my ❤️. Back then we dressed to travel. It really was something special. On board in First Class, meals were really gourmet and inflight service was stellar. Boy do we need REGULATION of the airline industry again. It was a terrible mistake to get rid of it ... what you have today is sh.t compared to then.
Amen brother!
great stuff! thanks for posting :)
Very happy to do so and more to come!
Wow! I flew with the PanAm A310 "Clipper Frankfurt" in summer 1989 from Berlin to Frankfurt. Shown here at 47:04
I remember as a kid back in the 70s my mom taking me to Honolulu International to watch planes take off and land, the excitement and the energy in the air, words cant really describe it and how much I miss it.
THAT is the Exact feeling I'm trying to resurrect with my campaign to bring back and place permanent memories of that particular time!
What a great video.
Alots of memories. I think I was there spotting on some of the footage. When I saw the Iberia DC-10 arrived following an American Airlines 727 I’m sure I was there from the top of the hotel terrace where there were a swimming pool
Some great footage of MIA from the heyday of jet travel, with lots of old/classic airlines and their planes--thanks! Whenever I see film of passenger jets from the 60's and 70's, I'm always amazed at how smokey/dirty their engine exhaust was compared to today's aircraft.
Trie, those old smokey jets (just like the first cars) were the pioneers that had to happen to get us to far more ecological friendly jets we fly today....we had to start somewhere and the 19600s, 70s were it!
Those were actual jet engines. These days planes have turbo fans not jet engines anymore.
Remember the BRANIFF CALDER? Saw at MIA back then.... memories!
When you flew back in this period there were two kinds of passenger seats to book. The expensive seats (coach) and the REALLY expensive seats (1st class).
Came down to Miami from New York City in the late1970s. WOW!! So many memories as a kid growing up in Miami. I completely forgot about Sunshine Airlines, Eastern Airlines at MIA probably had the biggest and busiest hub in the entire U.S.A. Now American Airlines has the largest hub at MIA.
Part 2 of this on Eastern should be online next week.
Ian Garrett .... American Airlines is Miami-Dade largest employer
Wow. At19:40. Dominicana Airlines 727. I used to live in Santo Domingo during the eighties. Awesome
That was the only best airline that dominicans had. After that they tried to create a new one but didn't have success
The good old days of free bags, leg room, and food and no stupid fees.
And no animals only civilized people!
US had a lot of airlines. To mention some of them Pan Am, National, TWA, Continental, Eastern, America West, USAir, Northwest, Air Tran, ATA, Braniff, Reno Air, Capitol, TowerAir, Southern Air, Western, etc
Man, those were the days! I always feared all those airlines would diappear and whittle down to 2 or 3 ...and here we are...
North Central and Pacific Southwest
@@toddmichael647 trust me, those two are in the line up for a video!
I remember watching the North Central DC-9’s in the 70’s. Great airline!
Hughes Airwest, Piedmont, Allegheny, and AirCal are some more.
Only one BN?? They were big @ MIA in the 70’s with B727s, DC-8’s and a 747SP to South America. Miss those Flying Colors!
More BN on the way for certain!
Your production is like walking into a room with a screen on each wall! Where to look at first- the jet in the foreground or the one behind it taking-off! If it gets any better than that, there would also be a screen on the ceiling! Great time watching it- Thanks!
Thank you John, a hell of a compliment! Truth be told, if I could produce such a multi-dimensional presentation for all to see it as you just explained it and it took years to create..to me it would be worth the time invested and the effort!
@@johnhenry6762 as much as we want to, we will not choose that road, because...I really need to take breaks just to keep sane. But as much of my free time allows I will be on the job, you can count on it! And I apprciate your solid support!
Always look forward to your stuff, and always love it. Thanks.
Thanks Jeff, just keep your eyes peeled...the best is yet to come. And I do this becuz I enjoy seeing this old stuff and I know there are 1000s if not millions like us both.
I’m doing a retro MIA and watching these videos was amazing!! I miss the old MIA!!
Cool, looking forward to it!
The L-1011 was Genius Engineering, well ahead of its time
Thank you!!!!
Love aircraft. Thank you.
You are welcome.
Yes. You are welcome. I do love aircraft.
I like the little ramp mishap at 29:30... You gotta lock those cans in place lol
This video only deserves thumbs up.....this is historical... although there could be people, still around from those days who may got it a thumbs down because they are still mad at the airport because the airplanes were allot noisier back then and if they lived near the runways, they had to endure a quick earthquake like experience evrytime an airplane flew overhead.....that was just a fact back then...the first generation jets were super loud...
Many of us enthusiasts loved the smoke and noise because it seemed so cool especially if you were a kid at the time,..but home owners near the airport complained constantly....if any of the readers here remember watching the movie "Airport 1970", you see a family sitting down to dinner and praying suddenly, the walls started shaking and things started falling from the shelves as a Boeing 707 tookoff over their neighborhood.....it is funny but sad at the same time.
This video deserves only thumbs up because it is excellent....
That is my opinion and I welcome yours..
Thank you for sharing. I enjoyed it so much
Thank you Mariano for checking it out!
What sounds! Now those sound like airliners. Would love to have worked at an airport back then!!
No kidding, fewer jobs was as much enjoyable and fun as this was!
Spectacular footage Huge Like 👍😎
Thank you Ed!
Awesome video✈
7:20. 🔵Avianca
Very nice! even a convair 880 ! Thanks
Amaizing classic video 💪
I was looking for Mel Bakersfeld and Mrs Livingston and more of the Trans Global gang! 😄 wonderful!
lol
I remember in the 80s being at LAX and watching the Delta L1011 pulling right up to the gate and the glass window, what an awesome sight it was, such a rush.....those days are long gone.
They may be gone...but on youtube and my channel, they live forever!
@@Starboard76 I remember flying back as a kid to Hawaii from Panama on a Pan Am 747 and looking down and seeing all that blue ocean and all those puffy white clouds and all that blue sky. I remember flying out of Honolulu on DC 10s with Western Airlines and Continental, boy were those fun times.
@@ikaikamaleko8370 cool, I luckily score some Pan Am 747 scenes at Panama, I plan to use use it in coming Pan Am 747s everywhere they flew around the World later this year.
I still have my kid memories of watching out the windows for hours and hours crossing the Pacific to Tokyo. Amazing feeling as a child for sure!
@@Starboard76 Yep exactly I know that feeling so well. I was a total airplane junkie growing up as a kid, I had models, all the books and studied the engines the cockpit T instrument formations, aerodynamics all that stuff, what a blast to be a kid then.
@@ikaikamaleko8370 yep..and now here I am playing with imagery (it takes a lot of work to put it all together) for my own satisfaction as well as others! And I do have my work cut out for me..but it's way worth it!
Love the fact 1/4 of the cargo was bringing in blow.
I was thinking the same thing. Wonder how much coke was coming in either in the cargo or the suitcases of passengers or crew.
lol Yes!! Didn't think of that.
What a time what a time.
I'll drink to that!
I remember back in 1970’s to the 1980’s Terminal E and the Satellite E were only used by foreign carriers. Today is a mess at the same Terminal E and Satellite E
41:31 I wonder what year that was when that AA 727 was being loaded.
Grew up in Mia. Loved seeing the ol' 720 @ George T. Baker I Graduated from there! I was there the day they shut down le jeune Rd. And brought the first Commercial Transport Aircraft to our School from MIAirfield. My Mom worked for EAL 25 Years retired just before it all went away😢 I worked @ KMIA for 25 Years as an A&P Technician. And I still am only not in Mia but still in Fla.
Great times in Aviation back then. Im surprised you didn't get a shot of the Concord from Air France of British Airways.
The 60's was a neat time in history for commercial aviation, what with the transition from turboprops to jets. It was always fun for me as a kid to go to JFK and watch the aircraft from an observation deck. Can't do that now and it's a real damned shame.
Good video of MIA as it grew throughout the years, but where was Eastern Airlines? I didn't see anything aircraft of the 70s and 80s.
I'm watching the last 20 minutes of that thinking Pan Am must have been on their death bed at that stage. Such a shame for such an icon. I'm sure some people know better than me but extraordinary that as soon as Juan Trippe stopped running the airline things really started to go downhill.
Not that much of a Pan Am expert on their financial misfortune and management, but I do recall their panic as 1978 Deregulation Act kicked in.
I see some 1973 chevys in the footage and the presence of both National and Pan Am 747s puts it before their merger in 1980, so it may have been tough times fuel-wise and deregulation wise, but Pan Am lived until December of 1991, so they were around for a while after this film was made.
At 21:38 there is a "flip," there's a definite difference in quality of video going from 1970s to 80s after that. I know because I'm seeing Pan Am logos that I only saw in the 80s and there's other things too.
Back when airplanes looked cool! Back when airlines treated passengers like paying customers and not cattle!
Totally!
Pan am L1011!!!!! Really rare
Even more rare is the Pan Am DC-10..
Awesome video!
Thanks mate!
Great video my friend, ,keep up the good work
Gone are the days when inflight food service was all gourmet!! Today they serve you almost out of thr trash can!! Sad
oh man, how true is that. I could add tons of tales of that comparison.
Don’t know much about National Airlines except they went bankrupt in 1980 and was acquired by Pan Am. Unfortunately I never had a chance to be a passenger on L1011, DC 10, 727 or any legendary carriers like Pan Am, TWA, Eastern, Northwest, US Air, etc.
You’re timing is impeccable, a National DC-10 in Los Angeles comes online tomorrow. I have a National DC-10 ride albeit a short one IAH to MSY - done on purpose just to ride a NA DC-10. But even worse imagine no TH-cam to share globally with anyone...they’d just be individual memories. You never got the chance but you get to ‘see’ what once was part of our sensational past.
My parents worked for National Airlines. They did not go bankrupt. National had paid off all if it's debt therefore there was a bidding war between, Eastern, TWA, Texas International and Pan Am. Unfortunately Pan Am won and they went bankrupt due to incompetent leadership.
Hi bursa airlines have a video? Dc8 52 vs? Thank you so much.
29:13 What airline was that DC-10?
Agree!
Takes me back big time! Was that a Viasa 747 in the background minute 34 ?
Good eye! Yes it was!
Did Eastern even fly to MIA? You wouldn’t know by watching this 42 minute TH-cam video. You truly had to work to avoid any Eastern aircraft that weren’t either a) a Lockheed Electra in one part or b) DC-8s in the old school “Fly Eastern Airlines” livery. You even managed to avoid images of their hangars. LOL
He y that is one busy airport there ,I remember pan am,,,and national, it's just cool to watch ,
And it's great to look back!
The aircraft at 9:34 is that an L1011 or 727?
That baby is loud 727.
The DC-7's could have been thought of as "Shark-Jumpers", as the airlines, to a man, dumped their 7's for jets, but kept a few 6's.
Damn Parts Recovery Turbines!
Would have never got that info...
Great footage. Get rid of the ads!
One of the sad moments in National Airlines ERA was the numerous of strikes 🪧 they faced by flight attendants and pilots as well as mechanics. National Airlines they had several crashes and I believe it’s lead to people lose confidence with National Airlines and the ceased operations to merge with Pan American World Airways 😭😢😡
Nobody lost confidence in National. National Airlines had paid off their last few aircraft and did not have debt. That's why there was a bidding war to buy National. It's sad the jackasses at Pan Am won. Very poor leadership at Pan Am in the 1970s and 80s lead to their downfall and my dad losing alot of his retirement from National because of Pan Am's bankruptcy.
Miami was really hot back then. Was this the eighties?
Some '70s but yeah, mostly '80s!
I lived in Phoenix during the 1970s Hughes airwest yellow planes do u have video about sky harbor during during the 70s i would love to see it
unfortunately not enough to do a short video, but I do have Hughes Airwest in Burbank, Las Vegas and LAX, it will put it up when I do a Hughes Airwest video!
At 2:46 Not a DC-7. It is a United DC-6B landing.
Thanks for that, can't change it now. What is the notable difference - if there is one?
@@Starboard76 DC-7 was longer, had a smoother engine sound. When parked, the 7 had 4-blade props, the 6b, three.
I grant anything up to 1970 as the early jet age, anything past that is not. But I do like seeing anything later.
Northeast Yellow Birds??
Not sure what year they merged with Delta…early 70’s maybe
Remember the vintage airlines that went bankrupt.
What is the music playing on the background?
what time stamp in the video are you referring to? Perhaps I can track it down for you.
Many thanks for your prompt response. It is from the beginning onwards to 2:40.
what is the year??
It was "MACKEY" AIRLINES ! Not "McKay" ! I flew them for years back and fourth from Miami, Ft Lauderdale and West Palm Beach to Freeport Bahamas and Nassau and the Out Islands of The Bahamas. I lived in Freeport at the time. Mackey was a great little airline. Good service and cheap flights !
Oh man, blew the hell out of that..you're right, completely my error!
When good jobs were plentiful. I bet you could walk up to one of those maintenance hangars and just show interest and you got the job! Today you need a masters degree in burgers to work at any burger joint.
Did that Avianca 707 land nose wheel first????? 7:23
I would think that that is a three point landing.
kmowm?
Great to see the Ecuatoriana 707!
HA! Wait til you see Ecuatoriana in part II!
Starboard76 Can’t wait to see that. Also loved seeing the Saeta 707 in part 1. Lived in Quito 81-83 loved watching planes at the airport.
@@edwardh8853 awesome to hear that!
sigh, does anyone remember the age when Miami was ruled by 4 airlines
Easter, Delta, United and National. Those were the days!
Viasa 747. Venezuela. Haven’t seen that in donkey years. Lol
Man I am trying SO hard to locate just a few seconds of that aircraft it's not funny. I have a few shots of it in the back ground coming up in part 2 or part 3 and I just want to kill the photographer who was looking right at it but busy shooting some seriously mundane nonsense...but then again, I must credit the guy with at least catching that much!
As a 35-year A&P IA who worked Heavy C & D Inspections, Maintenance, Repair, Cargo Conversions and Re-Engining on every Boeing, Douglas and Airbus Commercial Jetliner built, from DC-8s to DC-10s and MD-11s, 707s to 767s, and all the junk shit Airbus built: quality and safety-wise: the Boeing 727 is by far the greatest Jetliner ever built, the Douglas MD80 is the second greatest Jetliner ever built, the Boeing 757 is the third best ever built, and the Douglas DC9-30, -40 and -50 are the 4th greatest ever built .. the 737 and the Airbuses are junk compared to these four models ..
Question: is it still cosidered ear rape if you like it (consensual)?
Again, why do TH-camrs display a large mount of text and don't give us time to read it? What's the problem? Also showing scrolling text in white with a clip behind playing in black and white... Anyone can barely read it? Isn't all this common sense? What are you thinking?
I wished but airlines Pan American World Airways and National Airlines should not have merged and stools exists today on operations as well Eastern Airlines and Mackey International Airlines
So where's part 2?
Coming this week!!!
@@Starboard76 you sure about that? :)
@@sosaix3545 Should be up between 9am and Noon PST today.
@@sosaix3545 YT update now, 10 mins before or 1- mins after the noon hour west coast time.
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