Boeing 747SP "Special Performance" Promo Film - 1975
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2016
- Film from the collection of Justin Moore, via the Boeing Company Archives. Great footage here, including take-off, landing, stall, VMU tests, etc. Also includes interviews with test pilot Jack Waddell. SP fans will really enjoy this. Be sure to check my channel for the best in VINTAGE & RARE airliner videos! / classicairli. .
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My father, Captain Harvey Beebe Jr flew us to Tokyo non-stop Christmas week of 1980. What an awesome takeoff. One second I'm looking at blue sky. The next second I'm looking at Rockaway Bay off the left wing tip in a 30 degree bank turn. When we were at cruise altitude, Dad came back to the cabin to tell us that as soon as we took off we were ordered to make that steep turn to the left. What an awesome take off. The world will never ever see another pilot like Capt. Harvey Beebe Jr.
Superb to watch… my favourite version of the wonderful 747, the SP had less weight and drag (partly due to a simplified flap system) and thus true Special Performance-allowing a faster Mach CRZ at higher flight levels :-)
probably the most solid aircraft ever built by Boeing. This model literally served IranAir for 40 years.
Thanks for sharing
And it could have served for more years if Iran Air hadn't retried it.
@@IdanKashani well it’s getting really old. As sad as it is, there are many larger and much more efficient twin engine planes now, and airlines opt for those. I’ll surely miss the 747
I originally thought the 747SP was someone's attempt at Photoshopping a 747-200 to make it shorter! Notwithstanding, great video
l1011 vs dc 10 vs 747 sp?
Ibridball did u forget that u can edit ur comment!
I thought the same thing the first time I saw the Airbus Beluga!
@@titan9259 DC-10
Osku, what do i do?i said 747 sp vs dc 10 vs l1011
This is the only variant of the 747 series that I never had a chance to fly on.
I was one of the people to evacuate the 747sp in 1974 at the Everett plant, so it could get certified by the FAA. It gives you a whole different perspective on why the cabin crew are aboard.
Throughout the 1980's and '90s I would regularly fly these fantastic SPs on South African Airways who had 5 of them if I remember correctly. My last ever flight on one was SAA aircraft ZS-SPC in 1998 from Johannesburg to Luanda, Angola.
Originally even 6!
In 1975, when I was a kid, I flew from Edinburgh to London in a Trident, then London to Johannesburg in a 747SP: the Maluti, which has since retired and is on display at Rand Airport near Johannesburg. The test pilot mentioned Johannesburg because it's "hot and high": over a mile above sea level and can get very hot in the summer time: very difficult conditions. That's why the main runway at JNB is just shy of 14,500 ft long.
Flew it many times between sfo and Hong Kong late 70's early 80's pan am prior to united take over of Pan am pacific routes. Great aircraft , greatly increased chances of making it non stop westbound direction although I recall even with the additional fuel headwinds during winter spring could still force fuel stop either Okinawa or Taipei. Couldn't wait to fill my lungs with the Kai Tak aroma.
The 747SP even looks good in black and white!!
What a marvellous piece of film, Thanks very much indeed for sharing!!!
We were luck to have the Qantas 747SPs operate into Wellington Airport, New Zealand in the 80s, they did a perfect job!.
THANKS!!!!
yea I remember these flying in/out of wellington..i was sceptical cos I thought our runway was too short for jumbos..but then was told that they were ths "sp" shorter version..lol nice lookin plane :)
When Jack Waddell was finishing up the extensive flight testing on this new version of the 747, l was in a 3 month intense training to fly this magnificent aircraft.
The time Boeing was the greatest aircraft manufacturer in the world!
Use to love watching Qantas's SPs land at Wellington airport back in the day...Wow they were impressive. Qantas purchased two of the type for service to and from the NZ capital. Air NZ shared costs and seats on them.
yea I used to live up in the hills of wellington right under the flightpath..seeing these things fly over our house at low altitude was a awesome sight! :)
The amazing thing about the 747 in general is that it is a very fast aircraft. I was told that it would break the sound barrier if left to run at speed at altitude.
Whoever told you it would break the sound barrier is wrong, it's almost supersonic but it isn't. Its nose is round instead of pointy and its wings are obese instead of swept.
If you try to fly faster than sound in a 747, the aircraft would be overstressed because the disturbing amount of airflow would tear the wings off.
It does when hurtling to the ground out of control
@@xr6lad yeah no shit lol
@@greatbritishscarface7464It probably could at TOGA, that would be the last time anyone on that flight flew.
747SP is a unique airplane. But most people don't know that Boeing was working on a trijet version of 747 to compete with L-1011 and Dc-10 but it ment a major and complicated redesign of tail section. So they abandoned the idea of trijet and designed the SP as a short body long range variant of 747.
Really interesting! I didn't know that
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Super_Slav It would have been very interesting to see that version of the 747-300 go into production/service
Nakul Dalakoti thats very true actually. We had a docu on the 747 a few years back on BBC4 here in the UK and it explained about that...
I used to see 747-Sp's fly in & out of Kennedy Intl from Valley Stream NY when I was a Kid, I used to call it the Shorty 747 LOL Nothing like seeing her Long wingspan fly over you on her climb-out!
As a kid on the other side of the US in San Bruno, CA I would see these 747SP take off from San Francisco Intl Airport. Pan AM, China Airlines, CAAC, Korean and Qantas would fly them out of here.
Grew up in Burlingame. :-)
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I love the 'Stubby'
As a child I spent many hours flying non-stop across the Pacific in United & Pan Am 747SP's, before the 747-400 came along. One 'non stop' flight from Sydney to LA we had to stop in Hawaii to refuel due to stronger than normal head winds.
And I've also had the privilege of working on the only two Rolls Royce RB-211-D4 powered QF aircraft (There was one Rolls Royce RB-211-G2 powered aircraft built for a Saudi prince). I did however on one occasion over fill one while refueling it, dumping jet-a1 all over the place as it streamed out the reserve tank vent...as someone who will remain nameless..CHRIS.. disabled the volumetric shutoff without telling me!
thank you for sharing your story
Thank you for uploading this video which brought me back memories of my first flight on a 747SP of Braniff International from Bogota to Los Angeles in December of 1979.
I always loved that Special Perfomance, short body 747. Don't know why I think they're special, they just are. Very nice reel.
Same here, they just look cool, and kinda like a hot rod of the sky.
This is very much appreciated. I love ALL things B747. Thank you from Florida!
The first time I saw a 747 was at San Juan International Airport in 1970 while plane-spotting. After a few 707s arrived and touch downed my first Pan Am Jumbo 747 appeared. Its size was noteworthy, even from a distance, but what impressed me most was the glide path and its grace in relation to the other jets: like an albatross compared to a blue jay darting about the sky. So big, so heavy but a much more lighter approach as 9:32 brought back memories. Thank you for this terrific promo film on a unique aircraft.
a gentle giant
Flew an SP in 1981. United from Los Angeles to Newark. Beautiful plane. Powerful too
I flew on a Pan Am 747SP from New York to London when I was 11 in 1976.
How was flying back then?
I flew the 747SP nonstop from LAX to Sydney shortly after United purchased Pan Am's Pacific routes. The nonstop flight was 15 hours. It was a great flight. The SP stands for Special Performance. They have larger fuel tanks enabling them to fly greater distances than other aircraft. Qantas had these for awhile as well.
LAX to SYD is 6500 nautical miles, no? I thought the SP could only fly 5800 nmi non-stop.
This particular version of the incomparable "Jumbo Jet" was designed for ultra-long-range flights. Pan Am used it a lot, especially on its trans-Pacific network.
Back in the days of apartheid, South African Airlines used the 747SP to fly around the bulge of W Africa to get to European destinations.
Travelled several times from LHR to JNB around the hump on SAA/SP. Normal schedule southbound included a stop at Abidjan. One winter flight, the baggage handlers at LHR were slow to load due to cold weather. After an hour delay the Captain told us that as there were no passengers to get off, or on, at Abidjan, he topped the fuel tanks and we flew non-stop LHR to JNB around the hump. Spent 7 happy hours on the flight deck during the night flight. Pitch black whilst flying over the Southern Atlantic on a straight line from near Dakar to landfall in SA.
It was actually created specifically to serve Pan Am and Iran Air. Then the other airlines started flying it quite a bit after its big hit with the two launch customers
In TWA we had two of them that flew primarily JFK/CAI/BOM. Eventually they were sold to SAUDIA
@@IdanKashani it's creation was to compete with the trijets who were stealing business from the 747. Many airlines said the 747 was too big, too many seats, and went with the trijets instead. But because the shortened fuselage also meant less weight, it also turned out it had special performance. So SAA and Iran and Qantas bought it. Few others did. The fuel economy per seat mile was not good.
Flew on a TWA SP from JFK-LAX in 1982 when I was 7 years old. Still remember how cool it looked at the gate in that great livery, and feeling so excited.
Very impressive performance in the tests under adverse conditions. I see from Wikipedia, however, that engine failure-caused accidents did still occur. Thanks for uploading.
I just discovered your channel and I have to say that it is soooo great!! Even though I wasn't even born in 1975 yet, these videos make me feel so nostalgic.. Thanks man/guys!!
I flew in the Qantas 747sp in 1996 or 97 (in my teens) from Sydney to Jakarta. Great flight. I was sitting in seat 1a I think. The first seat on the port side. We got an upgrade to business class. Bucket list, check!!
Love this stuff! Watching (and hearing that stained musical soundtrack) took me back 40 years and brought back a rush of memories of me of controlling the projector in the AV room in High School. This is why Classic Airliners is my favorite UA-cam channel......
I used to see the SP as a stopgap aircraft until the 400 appeared with the same range, it was still my favourite Boeing though, go figure. But today I've been reading about the SP a lot, and it's a remarkable aircraft. It will fly rings around any 400, higher, faster and maybe even further. It excels on short airstrips in hot & high locales where the 400 would be out of puff. It is now my favourite Boeing more than ever before. Such a pity I'll never even seen one, much less fly on one.
Love these videos. Thank you!
Great video of this great plane. Remember seeing the pan am, syrian airline, iran air & saudia and south african and trans world airlines aircraft here at london heathrow during their time.
"My old boss Tex Johnston"......Boeing test pilot.....the ultimate in cool
Flew in one operated by QANTAS between Sydney and Perth, Australia. If I recall correctly eventually cruising at over 40,000 feet
Amazing footage, as always!
The SP's were my second favorite 747 variants after the 400s 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
A ‘Promo’ film in black & white... Stunned.
The whole thing was emerald green, so I had no choice but to go B&W.
List of Special 747SP;
1. A9C-HAK; Bahrain Royal Flight (ex; A6-ZSN)
2. VQ-BMS; Las Vegas Sands (ex; A9C-HMH)
3. VP-BLK; Las Vegas Sands (ex; A992MS & A6-SMR)
4. VP-BAT; CSDS Aircraft Sales & Leasing (ex; Worldwide Aircraft Holding)
5. P4-FSH; Ernest Angley Ministries (ex; A6-SMM)
6. A4O-SO; Oman Royal Flight
7. C-FPAW, Pratt & Whitney flying testbed
8. N747A; NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
9. N747NA; NASA SOFIA
10. HZ-HM1B; Saudi Royal Flight
11. HZ-HM1C; Saudi Royal Flight
12. HZ-AIF; Saudi Royal Flight
13. YI-ALM; Iraq
Flew on one from Johannesburg to Cape Town in maybe 1995. Was pretty old from what I recall
The 747-SP. "also known as Hot Rod". Fast plane. Been on one once Korean Air LAX to Seoul 1995. Interesting to point out the SP doesn't have flap canoes unlike other 747s. Only 45 built
Awesome video! I hope that the 747SP will still be around for many more years
+The Brown Potato true, although 11 are still in service though.
The Brown Potato Cool! I'll check that out
There is only 1 left in passenger service and is used by Iran Air.
Sands Aviation still flys two or three of them.
NASA also flys one as a aerial observatory.
I was fortunate enough to fly on the 747 SP with South African Airlines during the 80;s and 90;s between here and Europe and the USA.It is a fantastic aeroplane and very comfortable. SAA upgraded to the 747 400 from there which truly is the queen of the skies.Boeing is just so much more comfortable than Airbus with the added benefit of their excellent safety record.
Thanks for sharing !
I flew on an American Airline 747 SP on a flight from N.Y. to London or Paris I don't remember which. The SP was meant for long range flights but apparently was also useful for thin routes where there was a need for not necessarily long range but fewer passengers.
The Beauty but then smaller :) thx for uploading
The plane was developed as an even more structurally strong 747 to be the sports car version suitable for more takeoffs and landings shorter flight with still high passenger loads for those markets. Successful and hot as fire, the markets in Axis gobbled them up.
The 747SP was not developed for more takeoff's and landings...you're thinking about the 747SR developed for Japan Airlines. The 747SP was developed for ultra long thin routes where the passenger requirements of the full size aircraft wasn't needed. Airlines also, didn't gobble them up. Only a total of 45 747SP's were ever produced.
Was the first scheduled service to fly nonstop from San Francisco to Sydney and vv. We called them the stubby jumbo.
NASA flies a modified SP for its SOFIA flying observatory telescope.
Awesome b&w film.
I spotted an Argentinas 🇦🇷 747-SP at LAX in December of 1987; on the ramp at the Tom Bradley International Terminal. And again at LAX in the Spring of 1988; taking off from the south complex.
Aerolineas Argentina operated these 747sp for a while! I remember seeing them parked at terminals back in 1988 at Buenos Airlines Ezeiza airport!
A Friend then we really lost. Good old times!!!
Fantastic to watch how they studied 747SP's respond while flying performance.
Beautiful plane, used to deal with these on a daily basis in Seattle while working with United in the late 80’s
Awesome.. my mate flew these for Qantas.. cheers from NZ 👍🇳🇿✈️
The A318 of 747s
That aircraft on the video ended up serving to the national airline of my country, ARGENTINA!
I Love it.
I really enjoy your UA-cam Chanel
Thanks so much.
747-400 is my favorite.
lol, I bet! Keep them videos coming!!
i love it
7:47 cockpit looks great
List of Special 747SP;
1. A9C-HAK; Bahrain Amiri Flight
2. VQ-BMS; Las Vegas Sands (ex; A9C-HMH)
3. VP-BLK; Las Vegas Sands (ex; A992MS & A6-SMR)
4. VP-BAT; CSDS Aircraft Sales & Leasing (ex; Worldwide Aircraft Holding)
5. P4-FSH; Ernest Angley Ministries (ex; A6-SMM)
6. A4O-SO; Oman Royal Flight
7. C-FPAW, Pratt & Whitney flying testbed
8. N747A; NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
9. N747NA; NASA SOFIA
10. HZ-HM1B; Saudi Royal Flight
11. HZ-HM1C; Saudi Royal Flight
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Gotta get me one of these!
The Shorty Jumbo 747 S~P
Much better tail clearance on rotation than some aircraft. They stretch them to the limits for more payload.
Also how an aircraft can deal with icing conditions is very vital.
A severe tail strike could compromise the pressure integrity of the rear fuselage. Not good at all if you lose your tail section in flight. One thing about the old birds is at least you felt you might have a chance to hit the silk if things went somehow astray of plans.
Flutter that got worse would be the end of any structure. Good testing is a wonderful way to prove any aircraft once proven then it's just a matter of good maintenance procedures.
well jack wadell.ladies and gentlemens.speak and he speak good very good.
Thanks for the creepy music
Great plane ! Wish I’d flown in one. Did fly in a QANTAS combi variant.
I thought the SP was weird looking at first with the huge vertical stabilizer and smallish body. When you find out just how “hot” it was the cool factor grew. It was faster with a greater range, Boeing market research was way off. Boeing thought they needed a smaller jumbo to compete with the DC-10 and L-1011. Douglas sold about 430 DC-10s, Lockheed sold 239 L-1011 and Boeing sold 1200+ 747’s. They didn’t realize then that they owned the market already, I used to see PanAms SPs coming in and out of SFO hoping to be able to get onboard a flight, but alas they were out of service when my day arrived
What an awesome video...really great! Thanks for this one...my favorite airplane..with the legendary Jack Waddell..do you have more video.s about the early days of the 747? Flight test, development?i hope there is...thanks again!
Sure, look up Boeing 747 Promo Film #1 & #2 in my playlist, "Airliner Promo Films". I also have two 747 newsreels, one from 1966, and one from 1968. Those two newsreels can be found in my playlist, "Classic Jetliners". Everything is listed alphabetically.
Thanks very much!!,really awesome video,s..this is good stuff,i see them in your list..
Nowadays, many of the widebody twinjets on the market can pretty much do the same missions that the 747SP was originally designed for. Pretty amazing in regard to engineering technology.
Thank you very much for the historic video! I wonder, if you, the blogger, can clear out the sound? Of course, if it's doable!
This was a special high speed version built for Pan Am for long over ocean flights.
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While the 747SP was developed to meet ultra long range requirements, it was also an attempt by Boeing to tap the DC-10-30 market. In other words, a tacit admission on Boeing's part that the tri-jet wide bodies were what most airlines needed and wanted at the time. Case in point, early operators of the 747, such as EAL, DAL and NAL, wasted no time in dumping their 747's when the DC-10 and L-1011 had become available. The wiser carriers, such as Western, never succumbed to Boeing's sales pitch altogether. Moreover, most US airlines that kept their 747s ended up being larger operators of the DC-10; proof that McDonnell Douglas was more adept at gauging market needs overall.
Had the DC-10-30 debut at the same time as the 747, Boeing probably wouldn't exist today. In short, in terms of over capacity, the 747 was the A380 of the 70's, and did tremendous harm to Pan Am's balance sheet from which it never really recovered.
Like the 747, btw. Just making a few valid points.
The B747SP would still have had to be created to satisfy Clipper's (PanAm) for their round-the-world flights in both directions and trans-Pacific runs, IranAir's (when we were friends with them the first time)long haul NorthAmerican to Middle-East routes, and later SAA's (South African) need to fly around the bulge of Africa because of their then apartheid government , were not allowed to overfly the majority of African countries for a straight line to London and Europe.
No valid. The 747 and dc 10 don't compare. 2 different markets. Long range vs medium
2:23- that nose drops so fast! Does that feel as crazy as it looks??
747-SP Aldo nicknamed the "Short Plane" after its shorter fuselage
Surprised no mention of “stubby plane,” which was common in the 1970s when it first appeared.
Love the SP - definitely the strangest airliner ever made outside the Soviet Union.
Hey do you think I could use some snippets of this film for an upcoming video of mine?
What is the music that starts at 6:10 ?? Thank you !!!!
I'd like to see one of these with -8 wings and engines. 747VSP - Very Special Performance.
Why has the rudder been exchanged with an unmarked one, at 4:05 ?
3:51. Near Friday Harbor, WA.
6:39 7:01 I wonder how fast it took off
I used to work in that building. on those planes.
Any footage of 747SRs in Japan? (Japan has most 747SRs)
747 sr just 747 100 but fuel reduced 747 sr call 747sr-81
Baby 747
What's up with the flaps on this one?
САLIMBO ГГГ they are working
single slot, double hinged flaps on the SP. The other 747s had the conventional track mounted flaps. When the SP was at partial flaps, they sort of hung down below the back of the wing.
Thanks for the insightful comment
RIP 747
Is this an original print? Boeing? Black and white? 1975? It just doesn't add up. Colour stock was so dominant by then that I think it would have actually cost more to shoot in B & W. I could be very wrong but it just seems so odd this is in monochrome.
It only doesn't add up to you because there's information you may not have. Back then it wasn't uncommon to keep an archive copy of a film or TV program. And unless you had the original camera negative still floating around, the easiest way to make the copy was a kinescope-basically the program is shown on a TV screen and filmed with a movie camera. And while you _could_ do color kinescopes, there were some serious issues with colors shifting between the original picture and the kine. So almost all of them are in B&W.
1969 Jumpo
Does anyone know the song name from 0:01 to 0:32???
I wonder if someone approached Boeing today and asked them to build a 747-8 SP I wonder if they'd do it?
Assuming the min commitment purchase was met...I think the love people have for the 747 would carry over
to an airline who would use such a hypothetical plane for their domestic trans continental route.
My personal business approach to owning an airline would be using fewer seats but much larger. I.E. All Business Class; No Coach Class. Also institute a minimum fly age. No Passengers under the age of 18 - no exceptions.
Limiting the age reduces Insurance Liability, and overall cabin comfort in that there are no crying children. Removing 220 coach seats and replacing them with half that many Business class seats, means less weight in people and luggage, therefor less fuel needed, even with a comfortable safety margin. The best way to do this is w/a big jet and correct me if I'm wrong, but flying well below the maximum takeoff weight is a safer way to fly.
I think with these simple ideas, passengers over the age of 18 would pay double the coach class fare to travel this way, especially when considering that people paid 12 times the cost of an average ticket NY to London, just to fly supersonic. (Concorde)
Anyway that's my rant; what are your thoughts?
Dream on ...........
You had me until limiting the age. That would open you up to big lawsuits, not to mention entire families wouldn’t be able to fly with you because they have young ones.
Old 747sp 1901
Imagine just mounting GE90's or later GE9X engines on this thing.
at my old job we had a 100" PW4000 on the number 2 engine spot for a brief period of time. Substantially bigger than the JT9s
ugh, good video but the audio def needs to be washed through a couple of filters ....
747-100 1969
747sp 1975
747-200 1978
747-300 1983
747-400 1988
747-8 2010
U got a few wrong
747-100: 1969
747-200: 1970
747sp: 1975
747-300: 1983
747-400: 1988
747-8: 2007
30,000 th sub
Thanks Try!
S.P. Stood for short plane.
Pity the soundtrack has deteriorated - is that William Shatner?