AN AIRPLANE TRIP 1950s CHICAGO AIRPORT UNITED DC-7 AIRPLANE FILM 31020 HD
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Made in the 1950s AN AIRPLANE TRIP features a United DC-7 aircraft flying out of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, bound for San Francisco.
The Douglas DC-7 is a transport aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company from 1953 to 1958. It was the last major piston engine-powered transport made by Douglas, being developed shortly after the earliest jet airliner - the de Havilland Comet - entered service and only a few years before the jet-powered Douglas DC-8 first flew.
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I worked at midway air port for over 46 years we fueled super constellations, DC 3, 4, 6 7s, Convair 240, 440, 580, Martin 404 super venturas,Howard 350, Howard 500. A super Constellation would hold 60 gallons of oil on each of its 4 engines Been on that wing for many a hour in sub zero weather I get the chills just thinking about it!Thomas A . Filipiak I called a day 6 years ago 2016.
Now it is almost impossible to get over wing fueling. Fueling the wings so there is never more than 50 gallons difference makes for lots of runs up a ladder.
I doubt that.
Who cares?
United made the same promo with the DC-8 in 1961. The same storyline, dialogues and yes, Skippy was there too.
And today, United will even offer to kill Skippy for you.
The good ol' days when security and long lines were not part of the travel plan and where men, women, and children behaved with calss and decorum.
Also known as the pre Islam terror age.
And almost all the people were white anglo saxon christians...?......lol...That comment is not meant to create a stir....just point out the obvious
@@richardross3815 Some people only see things to race colored eyes Richard…
And frequently, people knew how to spell.
Yeah if I have children id like to have my children conduct themselves the same manner. Some parents truly do not care how their kids act.
1950 - thin people, large seats.
2017- large people, thin seats.
LOL yes!
I like that!....succinct and true!
Gelrat, also stylishly dressed versus slobs.
Eduardo Luiz Garlet ,
Grandfather did not look so thin.
LOL...so true
This is, obviously, from a planet other than our own.
Formerly know as the planet BeaverCleaver
No it isn't
Planet is the same.
Inhabitants have become barbarians again
Where girls can only be stewardesses.
1950's- Civilized people and a San Francisco free of drug needles and human feces on the sidewalk.
Sadly, that is all a memory now. Another thing that is a memory is ever-rising incomes for working class people.
the 1950,s - we hope you have a pleasant flight - 2018 - sit down, shut up, and we'll get ya there
Oh, and suck in a deep breath, and keep your legs tightly together so you can fit in this tiny seat!!
What do you expect? Air travel used to be a luxury few could afford now with less costly flight and unruly mobs, I'm surprised some people aren't chained down. I took a flight in the Midwest one time and we were told one of the lavs was not in service because someone tried to flush a diaper. Really?
This short video explains more than a 45 minute documentary today. Amazing!
The grandparents dropping off and the parents picking up those unaccompanied minors were so amazingly well-dressed!
We certainly not well off enough to travel by plane; we didn’t get a TV until 1960 and holidays were rare. However, my parents always made sure I was well dressed. Jeans were unknown as were anything like trainers. Short and tie was required for any kind of visit to relations. My father wore a shirt and tie for everything including cutting the grass. Many men still wore hats to work although my father did not. Life was different but I wouldn’t want to compare it to now. It was hard - we had to walk to the grocers (no supermarket) and take home bags heavy with potatoes etc. in fact, we walked almost every where; for us, a bus journey was rather like going in a car - just wonderful to sit there and watch everything go by.
We had no fridge and kept butter, milk etc on the pantry which was facing north , had no window but only a mesh. Nothing kept for long - hence almost daily trips to the grocers. As children, we were happy but I guess no happier than my grandchildren today - life was simpler but not necessarily better or worse.
This was before we had so many fakers insisting they needed their peacock and horse to travel with LOL!
All the comments about how this flight was so much more pleasant than a flight today, but look at all the sarcasm, negativism, and insinuation in the comments and you see just why. When we all act like this all the time, a bad flight is just a small symptom of a people with much bigger, overarching problems.
Amen
airport for over 46 years We fueled loaded unloaded de iced pulled the airplanes out of and into hangers pulled them out of the mud and dug them out of the snow super Connie’s, DC 3, 4, 6, and 7s. Con Var 240, 440, 580s.A super constellation would hold 60 gallons of oil each of it,s 4 engines been on that wing sub zero weather for hours to put in oil.It was always the wind . I get the chills just thinking about. Thomas Filipiak
I'm a bit confused. The DC-7s were supposed to have 4 blade props and aerodynamic spinners in the centers and the DC-6s were equipped with 3 blade props without the spinner option in the centers. The film indicates that the subject DC-7 in some views has the correct props while in other views the incorrect 3 blade arrangement. It's no big deal for the uninitiated that were viewing the film, but it's incorrect.
In 1963 I had the experience of flying aboard both the DC-6 and DC-7 in flights to and from Miami to Jacksonville. The DC-6 to Miami and the DC-7 in the return flight. In the DC-6 we were seated to where the engine's exhaust ports could be seen. I remember my mother's extreme concern about the plane being on fire because of the flames being emitted from those exhaust ports. It was very early in the morning and still dark and those flames were really visable. Despite my reassurances that there wasn't an issue, Mom had to summon a stewardess for confirmation. It was my mother's first flight as it was mine on a large plane. I was a bit of a nerd that loved aircraft so I knew what to expect in respect to her concern. It was a great adventure for a 12 year old, especially for one that loved aircraft.
The piston powered aircraft were much noisier than the jet powered DC-8 that we boarded in Miami, on route to and from Guatemala, and the vibration from the piston powerplants was quite noticeable but didn't exist on the jet DC-8s. There was one thing that surprised me about the DC-8, besides its attributes of being a jet and this was its ability to land and take off from the grass airstrip where we had made a stop in Merida, Mexico on our way to Guatemala City. I was really impressed by this new and sleek bird's capabilities on the bumpy grass surface.
In later years I also had the experience of flying several times in twin engine DC-3s to and from from Key West to Miami. I had finally experienced Douglas Aircraft's evolution of airliners from prop to jet and I can say that they had made some aviation history with some great airplanes. Some of which are still flying after all of these years.
William Charles Yes the DC-6 has 4 Pratt and Whitney R2800-CB engines with 3 blade props. Back then I often rode on Martin 404 planes which had the same engines except there were just 2. I remember leaving Atlanta at night headed to Virginia and the Martin vibrated and rattled from the big prop engines and a stream of fire was blasting out the exhaust ports which caused a couple seated in front of me to ask the stewardess if something was wrong. I never flew on a DC-7. But saw them with Eastern, the airline with Martin 404s, at larger airports and they had engines with 4 blade props. Another 2 engine plane that connected regional airports with big ones was the Convair 240. American Airlines had a lot of those and the Convair 240 also had 2 Pratt and Whitney R2800-CB engines with 3 blades. So the Convair 240, Martin 404 and DC-6 (4 of them instead of 2) had the same engine. I imagine other airplanes had it too. I think the big Constellations had 4 Curtis-Wright engines. They had exhaust ports at the top and bottom of the engine.
Sharp eyes you have. Yes, they showed a DC=6 engine start.
You are the man, you are a walking encyclopedia, I'm surprised you did not mention the L188 Electra, VARIG in Brazil flew them in the Rio - Sao Paulo air bridge for decades with outstanding service without a single accident, best regards to you.
When piston powered propeller driven ruled the sky!
Tou missed the BF Goodrich tires !
Someone needs to get into the Way Back Machine and tell the narrator that they flew over the Bay Bridge, not the Golden Gate Bridge.
I noticed that. Poetic license perhaps.
My Dad started as an Aircraft Mechanic at United Airlines in 1954, working at SFO (San Francisco International Airport) before moving on to DEN (Denver Stapleton Airport) where he did the majority of his years, finishing his career at PHX (Pheonix International Airport), retiring in 1994. I've always been impressed with how he and the others kept them flying.
I miss my Dad, his passing was in 2018. I have to say, United Airlines back in the day was an outstanding employer, and he loved the work.
Better class of people, better customer service. Simple.
Much, much more expensive tickets.
@@hmbpnz which meant that higher level of breeding was the group that could fly
@@manhoot i wish only rich people get to fly
Ahhh the good ol' days. Didn't have the riff raff.
Yeah, everybody was Ozzie and Harriet and poster children of dorks.
Like you???
@@JohnS916 Take your STUPID LIBTARD COMMUNIST COMMENTS ELSEWHERE!, Have someone read this to you stupid,most of you CAN'T R-E-A-D...Can't spell,can't read the Constitution but so what your all COMMUNIST And that doesn't matter to you and won't until you see what its all about after the evil capitalist ARE GONE!. We built this Country on God&Love You idiots will live on our leftovers until you destroy yourselves!.
@UCZLI8JB73LYBUBIAbTr3u6A hey dumbass, why do you hate America so much? If you think we’re all communists here you’re more than free to go elsewhere, dumbass, so please do!
Amazing just how low they were flying over Denver given they weren't landing there - surely that couldn't be more than 750 feet
That isn't Denver. Not sure what town it is, but that's not Colorado's capital building and the downtown area around it is not Denver's downtown. I know, I grew up there..
@@shabsewerther6245 Thanks for pointing that out. Some of the tourism promo films of that generation did featur phony locations in the place of the real one(s). Here's another example.
Don’t call me Shirley
@@r.crompton2286 It's nice to get a response, even if it is two years in coming. Yes, it does look like Hartford, Connecticut.
@@rbryant100 "I can't tell." "You can tell me. I'm a doctor."
That would’ve been a pretty expensive trip back then. Flying was not cheap.
Oh Joan and Judy! Grew up and work at a strip club by the airport called the Landing Strip
Joan and Judy are currently spending there time in a covelesent rest home.
It was more fun to fly. Flew on the Dc-4 / 6 / 7 and Connies.
If I had a choice, I would much rather fly in one of those than today's sardine cans. Speed be damned. Well maybe not the DC4, as it was not pressurized and had to fly low, but the others? I would take them in a heartbeat.
That'd be funny while the plane is flying and they go back in time and see dinosaurs roaming the ground. Like that one Twilight Zone episide. 😄
“Kids flying by themselves”... I think that still happens today or not, but in the world we live in today I would be surprised if it is still allowed 🤔.
Yes, it is still allowed. Flight attendants are assigned the young folks and have to give them personal instructions on safety features. I have seen this done on Alaska Airlines and it was really interesting how the flight attendants did this by making the kids part of the instructions asking them to tell the flight attendant what he or she would do in case of an emergency. The kids knew more than any sloppily dressed adults on that flight I am sure. Really fun to watch the kids and the flight attendant interact.
Gosh the Grand Canyon.
And look at that Constellation of TWA.
ITS SO CLOSE. OOOPS.
fordlandau
Too soon!
My Dad worked for United during the filming and into the 1970’s. Was In the Communication Dept. He was up all night setting up phone lines the night of the “incident” over the Grand Canyon. In fact, my parents met at Midway Airport around 1955. My first flight as a 2 week old was on a DC7, Midway to LAX.
The captain says "Look! We're over Denver. And we've suddenly plummeted about 20,00 feet!"
Oh, look Johnny! It's a flock of geese!
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Wi Tu Lo
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Bang Ding Ow
Back when people had class, dignity, and manners! The flight crew actually treated passengers as honored guests, not as potential suicide bombers or common criminals. The food was actually pretty good. Nobody gets dragged off by their feet by obnoxious air marshalls, no cussing, loudmouth feminists or brats whose parents can't control them, no fat guy who takes up three seats...
Marie Katherine yeah, unless you were a minority. In which case you’d be considered uppity to even aspire to such “luxury”, and be immediately put down, or lynched as many returning Buffalo soldiers from WW2 were in the South. Nah. The good old days weren’t all that good. Let’s just call it work in progress.
Joan and Judy are very nice girls. They had a nice lunch, were given junior stewardess pins and the stewardess showed them a map in the
cabin.
Nice flight .No one got tasered , shot or hijacked.
....or dragged down the center of the cabin!
Nice flight .No one behaved like an entitled knucklehead just because they bought an airline ticket that cost less than taking the damned bus.
Fixed it for you.
It's amazing how DC-7 with 4 bladed props becomes a DC-6 with 3 bladed props for preflight and then back again for takeoff. The magic of film!
Back in the 1950's where you were dressed up ,just like you were going to church.
I doubt this service was from OHare -- It looked like Midway (formerly, Chicago Municipal Airport and the world's busiest.) As a Chicago-bred youngster having taken my first commercial plane trips (also on United) from Midway in the mid 1950's, I can recall that I never even heard of O'Hare until the jet age. The early 707's and DC 8's had no STOL characteristics and could not land at Midway. The place became a ghost town until the late 70's when the smaller STOL jetliners (such as the Boeing 737, et. al.) became ubiquitous.
It's Midway and the hangers shown are still there.
My mom took me and a friend to O'hare in 1957, soon after plans were announced for construction of a major international airport. She told us she wanted us to be able to tell our grandchildren we saw O'hare when it was still a tiny rural looking field. It sure was.
The childrens nowadays should be 77 years old. Or no?
And they waved bye bye to poor Skippy......hope he made the trip alright...I wouldn't put my dog on any airline today
That's actually Midway Airport (MDW). O'Hare opened in the early 1960s.
O’Hare opened in 1955, not the early 1960s.
C'mon, Dave!! You're sitting at a computer! Google! That's O'Hare! As United transitioned out of Midway, they operated out of both airports. As the plane takes off & they show the view - what do you see?? The countryside!! Midway in the 50's looks much like it does today - surrounded by rows & rows of houses!!! Before O'Hare grew up to be O'Hare, it was a small field out in the country known as Orchard Field which is why it's still tagged ORD today! World War 2 saw Douglas Aircraft operations at the field....
I wonder if they could have used both airports in this film. The control tower shown was never at Midway airport, yet the airplane hangar in the background sure looks like the one United had at Midway years ago along Cicero Avenue!
I’ve seen another video from the 50’s and she says the exact same line and the same story with grandpa and grandma and the kids
"Goodbye old friend...'Skippy'. You need to be a 'Snoopy' … able to fly your own WWI plane to San Fran..." (Now, that would be a sight to see, wouldn't it?)
As one person said earlier: "Joan & Judy - the future San Francisco hippies". Yep...could be. LOL!
I like these old classic films of long ago. They sure were way different from now-a-days stuff.
Skippy didn't do much skipping!
Skippy sure does like flying on UAL. Just watched him get a ride on a DC8 20 years later lol!!
Skippy was used as an inflight meal
Say goodbye to Skippy! FOREVER.
I don't believe that is Denver out the window; it sure looks like Hartford, Connecticut... should I tell the pilot?!
Yes it is! and here I was taking their word for it!
The Parents Looked Older Than The Grandparents
Good thing Joan and Judy didn't eat the fish.
Joan and Judy future San Francisco hippies.
or turn transexual ;-)
Captain also too fond of the girls ;-)
Probably living in the street shooting drugs with the free needles Frisco hands out.
Even the youngest of the two will be past 70 now...
Joan was the wild one----dropped acid 100 times and became a biker chick with the Hell's Angels. Judy survived the 60's and eventually became a Neo-Marxist literature professor at Cal Berkeley......despises all men, capitalism, Christianity, western civilization, etc.
Back then they served you a three course meal on china plates, today you feel lucky if they toss you a mini bag of pretzels.
Flying military standby to Chicago on Delta, put into first class. Served a champaign breakfast on china with heavy silverware and of course a flute or two of champaign. Memorable flight.
Westjet steerage class you get a nice small cup of water and a bag of pretzels, wow, knowing this I usually have a Berger and a beer in the airport bar.
Ah, the fiod ol' days, when you can tell film has been through a projector that was not cared for (all the scratches caused by a dirty gate).
This was a United film. How customer service has changed. I really like seeing this - what would a modern version of this be like? Airlines still have special procedure to handle unaccomponied minors.
"Airlines still have special procedures to handle unaccompanied minors." They sure do. They've got these crates with holes in them and a latch on the door, like the one they used for the little girls pet dog in1950 only a little bit bigger. They load 'em into the crate, then its onto the conveyor belt and into the hold they go.
@@skimonki Sometimes I wish they had crates for screaming kids. Better yet, put their parents in them as punishment for not controlling their loud, obnoxious and seatback kicking brat.
Ahh, the good old days (continued): A full course meal vs paying for a plastic cup of soda and a tiny bag of peanuts...Having your family wave goodbye from the gate vs. having your family not getting past the TSA security checkpoint...All passengers sitting in comfort vs grumpy passengers sitting two seats from each other & wearing surgical masks
Ha ha ha.......not like this anymore!
No metal detectors, body scans or luggage scans in those days, no terrorism or hijacking, what an innocent era!👍😎
Bushkangaroo 1959 ,
Bombs for life insurance payouts. Bombs for political murder.
Yea put your damn dog in a box under the cockpit and not running up and down the aisles.
Reservation made before computers, no TSA and no restrictions to waving good bye at the gate. Air travel has come a long way!
Je donnerai n'importe quoi pour aller à cette époque et même en 1960 plus particulièrement vraiment .
Now you know why the ‘gate’ is called a gate!
skippy is everywhere
Hey! Skippy got on without going through the metal detector, and he was right under the cockpit..... TSA violation right there.....just sayin'.....
LOL, junior stewardess pins... because they’re girls, of course. Couldn’t possibly be junior pilot pins. That’d be silly. 😂
They changed that in the remake 1960 jet age film. Same format, but the kids were a boy and girl and both got airline wings. The boy his pilot wings and of course the girl her stewardess wings. Back then we knew the role of women and they knew their place as well. Problem is, secretly most men would like to return to those days. No thanks.
Now we all have glorious revolutionary Party Approved Correct Thinking and Speech.
"Do you girls ever wonder why Scraps grabs your leg"?
Ahhh Scraps is a boy dog!
How was Skippy's flight, crammed in to the hold just in front of the node gear? Reminds me of my first flight...on Mohawk!
Very nice infomercial trip down memory lane.
They only fly at 16,000 feet.
This is soo different from today.
Not a Karen in sight!
Only rich people flew back then. They really dressed up,too!
Go Skippy!
Ahhhh. The goid old days are gone
Yeah, I lived in SF at the time. You buy a house on the GI bill for 20 grand and sell it in 2019 for two million. No wonder there are so many homeless people.
Mom and dad will take the kids and the dog to Haight-Ashbury to jam with the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane ✈️🤘
Flight attendant "Ms. Gilso" has an annoying nasal sounding voice.
It's wiiild, that Jackie Robinson and his wife boarded a plane like this one and was told they had to get off during refueling, so the (Americans) can board and was forced to take a Greyhound bus.
'It's time to say good-bye to Skippy'. Skippy: PANIC! PANIC! PANIC!
The earliest version of : bitch bye haha 😂girls u want a nap. But I do love videos like this so classy and still futuristic
Captain Mills and the flight engineer and co-pilot sit in the cockpit says the narrator. That's odd. Last time I was on a flight they set in the baggage compartment.
Ready for take off and we're still at the gate oh wow!!! And look we're flying at 16,000 feet, how incredibly high. I hope where the dog is, is pressurized cause even at 16,000 feet it would either die or develop brain damage, and why is the dog travelling anyway, the parents didn't want to deal with it? Or the grandparents wanted to get rid of it?
Re: Skippy. How long would a flight take from Chicago to SF on a DC 6/7.
How long could Skippy hold it.
They didn't show you what a mess Skippy made and cleaning up the dog so he'd be fresh as a daisy when the girls got him.
Anyone know how they handled animals that flew on a long distance flights in the 50's???
At that times people knew how to behave during a flight. Decent guys.
At 5.0, none of the instruments were reading...........static shot.
Ok. Thanks for that, smart guy....... Pshhh
LMAO..."Now, they call them Patroni's"!! GREAT HANDLE!! Great movie...
Yes, as a pilot whenever I see a cockpit shot in flight I scan the instruments. The only thing with a reading there seems to be an ammeter on the center console!
as an expert in complicated business computers, i notice everything you guys are talking about also.
it’s pretty awesome being as great as we are, right? it’s like.. i don’t even need to try and other people are so jealous haha. have a good one bro!
The instruments are zero, were gliding and ol' Skippy is braced for impact. Life is good! Glad we had a nice lunch and purchased that cheap life insurance prior to boarding. Mom and Dad are about to hit easy street.
Cleared for takeoff before the pilot has even started the engines.
😄
Interesting since prop airliners had to warmup at the warmup station at the end of the runways. They needed the correct cylinder head temps for full power.
Beautiful! We go from this quality, to Spirit! Yuck!
No lawsuits.
wow take a look at how small the airport in Chicago was. weve come a long way
That's probably Midway. I don't think O'Hare was even built yet.
Must have been a non-smoking flight ?😮💨
9:35, and now, its Air RAGE!
I have never heard the term "we live in an air age" because probably they called it a space age instead
Before United was bought out by Greyhound.
What does a woman and an airplane have in common?
A cockpit.
OH! Joan and Judy were so cute! They survived!
The aircraft shown is not a DC-7 but a DC-6.
5:36 look at the food now you get a sandwich in a plastic bag.
6:32... That is NOT Denver!
This is a DC6. The DC7 had 4-blade props.
I know I am old school but to this day, we (family members) still dress when we use air travel - the only difference is that we wear laced-up sneakers (if we had an emergency). That is the way it was in America years ago - and it still is in some parts of the world. Ciao, L (Baby Boomer).
Look at those nice wide seats and wide center armrests.
It wasn't long before most airlines went 5 abreast in the DC7.
Very old school
They failed to tell us that Skippy was shut up in a compartment next to a heater and was DOA at SFO. Just kidding.
Boy, Skippy got off quick!
Those square window can't hold more air pressure it will broke and can make the plane bomb but they are lucky that not accidenly
No “Mr Bungles” here!
Great little video. Reminds me of "filmday fridays" in elementary school. Fun none the less!
Love this oldies love the DC7
I was afraid to watch. Did United kill Skippy, too?
I guess the captain couldn't conceive that those girls could grow up and become airline pilots and navigators themselves back then.
michellecalling ,
Maybe he did, but corporate policy at the time did not.
During the 1950's and from the inception of commercial flight in the USA, the Department of Commerce required airline pilots to have flown in the armed forces and to have reached the required number of flying hrs. So when this was filmed there was a narrow window of opportunity for both men and women.
@@r.crompton2286 After WW2 there was a glut of short time pilots, less than a thousand hours total. The airlines picked the most experienced and hired them, the hires were usually the ones with DC-3 (C-47) and/or DC-4 (C-54) experience, the rest took up other careers.
cleared for takeoff and the engines aren't even started and traffic controllers called officers
By skippy
This was when flying was "cool" and the stews were "hot."