1967 “DISCOVERY ’67" BOEING 727 JETLINER UNITED AIRLINES EDUCATIONAL FILM XD30862
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- Опубліковано 19 лис 2021
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This episode of the Discovery '67 TV show, made in partnership with United Airlines, focuses on the Boeing 727. The episode starts with host Bill Owen sitting in a flight simulator cockpit for the Boeing 727. In the Captain’s seat is flight instructor Major General Donald A. McGann. Closeup of Captain’s flight instrument panel with air speed indicator, compass, and altimeter. Closeup of center panel with instruments for engine readings. Captain McGann points to the gear handle. Closeup of the throttles for the three jet engines. Closeup of radio controls. Closeup of overhead panel with lighting switches, hydraulic switches, and electrical switches. 1:45 Closeup of the center panel. 1:53 Closeup of the captain advancing the throttle. He points to the engine thrust instruments and the air speed indicator. He decreases the throttle, then extends the speed brakes. 2:36 Closeup of gyro horizon (attitude indicator) as the pilot moves up, down, left, and right. 3:31 An operator with Denver Approach Control is seen at his panel. He speaks into a telecom. 4:27 Exterior shot of the Boeing 727 simulator. Pilots sit in the cockpit during a training session. Closeup of the problem panel. One of the pilots presses the “No. 3 Engine Fire” simulation button. The lead pilot walks through the steps he would take in that situation. 5:57 Instructor McGann freezes the simulation. 6:11 Bill Owen stands in front of the simulator, talking. 6:15 Exterior shot of a United Airlines Boeing 727 jetliner on the tarmac. The second officer conducts a ground check. Instructor McGann steps on board with the pilot. The men board the plane and walk down the aisle towards the cockpit. 7:12 The Boeing 727 prepares for take off. Operators peer out of binoculars in the control tower. 7:25 The pilot, second officer, McGann and Owen all sit in the cockpit. Closeup exterior of the plane. The nose lifts and the plane ascends. 8:09 Airplane wings in the foreground and Denver, Colorado below. 8:25 Closeup of the control panel in action. The pilots check the stick shaker. 9:04 The United Airlines Boeing 727 cruises above the clouds. 9:30 Closeup of the center control panel. 10:23 Training continues in the cockpit. 11:38 The camera shakes a bit due to turbulence. 12:03 Closeup of lead pilot wearing a hood, impairing his vision so he must depend solely on the instrument panel in front of him. 12:22 Exterior of the Boeing 727. The plane dips to the left above rural land. The runway is visible on the ground in the distance. View of the left wing as the plane slowly descends. The plane approaches the landing strip. 13:47 McGann lifts the pilot’s hood and the plane meets the landing strip. The camera shakes as the landing is made. 14:15 The plane lands and taxis on the runway. 15:21 Jets taxi on the tarmac and then fly overhead. Model of the SST supersonic jet transport. 15:47 Demonstration of a vertical takeoff. The plane arises, then tilts its engines to fly forward. 16:04 Cut back to Bill Owen in the cockpit, and then standing at the nose of the 727 on the tarmac. The film ends with various shots of the Boeing 727 as the credits roll.
The trijet Boeing 727 was launched in December, 1960, with the first 727-100 rolling off the assembly line in November 27, 1962. It first flew on February 9, 1963, and entered service with Eastern on February 1, 1964. It was powered by Pratt & Whitney JT8D low-bypass turbofans below a T-tail, one on each side of the rear fuselage and a center one fed through an S-duct. It shares its six-abreast upper fuselage cross-section and cockpit with the 707. A stretched version dubbed the 727-200 entered service with Northeast Airlines in December, 1967. Besides the airliner accommodation, a freighter and a Quick Change convertible version were offered. The 727 was retired from passenger service in 2019. Production ended in September 1984 with 1,832 having been built.
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Take me back to 1967 as an adult. America was a much happier place back then.
I'm an A&P for 26 years first aircraft I worked on was a Boeing 727 for American airlines in Tulsa Oklahoma. They were built like a tank and known for that and the JT8 engines were very powerful, got to work on an engine change team that was great , trimming the engines idle and military .
Back when people knew how to behave,Good video
I don't know how common this was but back in the late 60's when I was 12 I was on an Eastern 727. We were taxiing to the runway. As soon as he started turning he was spooling up. I thought wow this is cool. Never stopped or even slowed down.
There was an optimism about the future missing today...
I loved the 727 and flew on it many times. Back when men wore suits when flying. I had the fortune of sitting next to a four-striper, deadheading. I asked him his favorite airplane to fly: the 727, a pilot's airplane. And I asked him if they ever used full power on takeoff: no, that would burn up the engines. He then went on to explain the computations to arrive at the appropriate EPR (engine pressure ratio).
I flew as a flight engineer on the 727 at the beginning of my airline career. I always wanted to fly it as a pilot but didn’t have the seniority to do that before they retired it. It was a great airplane.
Back when people knew their Job, every aspect of it, and did their job well with almost no errors!
I flew on all series of the 727 with Braniff International, Eastern, Delta, and Continental. Back in the 70’s, if you flew on a domestic flight, would most likely be a 727 or DC 9. United and the up start Southwest flew the 737’s and Delta had the Convair 880 (I think these were replaced by the 727). These birds were way more comfortable than the buses today.
This was one of many aircraft that I saw gracing the skies when I was just a kid. That was 40 years ago. They were still a common sight back then. I miss them to this day.
I love their fantastic sense of humor in the first couple sentences, "That's right Bill" 😂
YIKES, their wild assed predictions fell precipitously short!
I live in Denver and somehow I missed this. I was not alive during the prime of the 727, but the tri-jet has been a favorite plane. She was a pretty aircraft for sure, too bad couldn't improve her engines.
I never got to jumpseat on the 727 because of their retirement from service from many airlines in late 2000 (and not too much later with FedEx) but I learned the aircraft rather intimately in high school as a type rating course (minus the flight portion) and again when I turned 23 and could get my airline transport pilot exam done for my dispatch license. We learned the systems, flight characteristics, operating envelope, etc so the plane has a special place in my heart. Speaking of which, my wife and I got married on 27 July (7/27). It's too bad I never got a chance to ride up front!
I love films like this! I love planes, train and automobiles!
Used to fly to see my Grandparents in Florida early 70's . Eastern Airlines. 727 stretch Hartford to Atlanta. L10 11 Atlanta to Daytona. Meals on both flights ! I even had lamb chops one time ! Those were the days !
Fantastic piece of history, thanks Periscope!
Good ol 'Stapleton Airport. Just a short drive from Downtown. Based there several years. It was always fun to get to fly the very 1st 727 N7001U. Thx!
The Golden Age of aviation!
That was pretty cool...I loved riding on the 727 100. Simulators have come a long long way...actual stick time in training has reduced quite a bit. The future of air travel was a little optimistic back then, Concord flew for 30 years or so before it was retired but the Boeing SST never got a look in LOL Maybe in the next 30 years we may see hypersonic travel at suborbital altitudes (if the greenies allow LOL)