“ STANDARD BUSINESS MACHINE OF THE AIR ” 1964 ROCKWELL JET COMMANDER PROMO IAI WESTWIND XD81214
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This 1964 promotional film looks at the development and features of the “Jet Commander”, a twin engine private jet built by Aero Commander, produced by the Rockwell Standard Corporation. (The aircraft is better known today as the IAI Westwind, a name it was given after Rockwell sold the rights to Israel Aircraft Industries in 1958.) The Jet Commander was presented in the film as the "standard business machine of the air", allowing CEOs to save time by avoiding commercial flights and being able to land at small airports much closer to their destination. The film features extensive footage from the development, construction, testing, and certification of the aircraft. It also shows some of the modern interior design features that were available to customers.
The Jet Commander was originally designed in the USA by Aero Commander as a development of its twin-propeller namesake aircraft, first flying on January 27, 1963, as the Aero Commander 1121 Jet Commander. After successful testing, the aircraft was put into series production with deliveries to customers beginning in early 1965. Shortly thereafter, Aero Commander was acquired by North American Rockwell. Since Rockwell already had an executive jet of its own design, the Sabreliner, the company decided to sell off the rights to the Jet Commander, which were purchased by IAI in 1968. IAI modified the design and produced planes for almost two decades before manufacture ceased in 1987.
0:11 a management team standing by an airport fence, 0:28 a Jet Commander landing, 0:51 Aero Commander Division of Rockwell Standard Corporation, 1:00 an Jet Commander aircraft taking off, 1:23 a man sitting in a computer room and talking to the camera in front of models of aircraft, 2:03 man is talking to the camera in front of an executive desk, 3:04 a computer in a room, 3:22 different pictures of an early twin engine Aero Commander aircraft, 4:11 flight footage of the Jet Commander, 4:36 a model of the Jet Commander, 4:55 engineers sitting around a desk discussing a new aircraft, 5:22 list of requirements needed by CEOs for a new private jet, 5:57 engineers working on the design of the aircraft including blueprints of the Jet Commander, 6:34 model of the Jet Commander, 6:56 Warranty Agreement for the Jet Commander, 7:14 the first Jet Commander being built, 7:26 first complete exemplar of a Jet Commander, 7:50 Jet Commander’s first flight, 8:16 blueprint showing new additions made to the aircraft after testing, 8:41 Jet Commander flying during its certification testing program, 9:21 airframe strength test of the Jet Commander, 9:53 Jet Commander undergoing ground and air tests for FAA certification, 10:06 officials looking at the data from the tests, 10:24 aerial footage from the testing of the Jet Commander, 10:48 Jet Commander assembly line and part production, 11:10 a finished Jet Commander being prepared for its first flight, 11:28 first flight of the first production test unit Jet Commander, 12:15 aerial footage of two Jet Commanders flying, 12:42 designers showing different interiors for the Jet Commander and how they are constructed, 13:20 a passenger demonstrating the features of the cabin interior including a bar in the back, adjustable armrests, drink holders, and adjustable air nozzles, 14:26 the Jet Commander conducting demonstration flights at Reading Air Show in PA, 14:40 Jet Commander flying together with a Grand Commander, 15:37 Classroom instruction at the Aero Commander Technical Training Center, 16:44 employees gathering to watch the first flight of the first assembly line Jet Commander, 17:27 different Aero Commander Aircraft taxiing, 17:46 first production Jet Commander undergoing ground tests and taking off, 18:45 National Business Aircraft Association Meeting in Miami with flight footage of Aero Commander aircraft, 19:42 Jet Commander in flight as seen from the ground, 19:52 map of airports in the US that the Jet commander can reach including climb and distance profiles, 20:36 a low pass by a Jet Commander, 20:48 Rockwell Standard Logo,
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The Jet Commander was powered by two General Electric CJ610 turbojets, the civilian version of the military J85 engine. The J85 powered many jet-powered training aircraft over the years, like the Bell X-14, Canadair CT-114, Cessna A-37 Dragonfly, North American T-2 Buckeye, Northrop T-38 Talon and Saab 105. When the Jet Commander became the IAI Westwind, power was upgraded to Garrett (Honeywell) TFE-731 turbofans.
I love the "Their talents can't be replaced by a computer..." line. If you only knew, pal, if you only knew!
At the start of the video I've got Monty Python "twit of the year contest" flashbacks XD
Cool video!
Couple of factories sitting in a bar: “I was an airplane manufacturer once. It’s a tough racket.”
Shootout Reading PA air show!! Didn't know it went back that far, I still go every year. always look forward to the first week in June as reading airport turns into WW2 weekend
Would love to see the older Gulfstream videos as well!
The Gulfstream G100/G150, originally the IAI Astra, was developed from the IAI Westwind.
Does anyone know of any Gulfstream II or any Gulfstream III films documenting development in the 60s?
I never knew of this jet. I spent 20 years selling ground support equipment to the business aviation industry. Mostly tugs and APUs. 1980 to 1999. I see it became a Westwind. I had heard of that one. Then the mention of the NBAA. That was always a great show, loads of money, hospitality parties, women and loads of fun. I was a regular for nearly 30 years. Women were not hookers, at least at my level. I would often meet them at the hospitality parties and sometimes it would turn out fabulous and sometimes not. But lots of great free food and free spirits....both the drinking and female kind. Met lots of great and sometimes very famous people. Loads of great memories. Oh yeah.... and I actually sold a lot of equipment just socializing at the parties.
You know you've arrived when the hookers are so good that you can't even tell!
Executive at 5:17 looks like a real peach to work for. His employees probably encouraged him to purchase a Rockwell jet....so they could sabotage it.
These men at the top are gods.
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Wow. That's a beautiful jet.
Oh man, I want one!
Sounds like he's selling me an encabulator of some sort.
Unless it’s a turbo encabulator with steady state automation and 3 degrees of freedom I’m not interested.
@@undertow2142 It's all about the hydrocoptic marzelvanes.
The life of a product development team: how can we sell more aircraft? The mental gymnastics required to get to this concept just boggle my mind. Even then, there must have been much more efficient ways to maximise the time of business executives. This solution just seems laughably overblown and environmentally unfriendly to us now. But it's cool to see these aircraft in action, and the computer technology, I just shake my head at the self importance of the concept, they really did think they were going to revolutionize business with this!
They did revolutionize business. Thousands of business aircraft are flying every day.
Business aircraft helped general aviation progress and is still an important time saver today. My company used to own a Gulfstream jet. We were a medical instrument manufacturer, and we would pick up doctors from all over the country, and sometimes world, to bring them back to our headquarters for training on our newest medical devices. We also did procedural training in flight, so when they arrived, they had the protocols down pat. If you don't think doctor's time is valuable, I got news for you. The FDA finally made us get rid of the plane. You know why? They said our business jet gave us an UNFAIR advantage over other companies that could not afford one!!!
Interesting they chose the straight wing design, especially for a business jet. I take it that it was subsonic all the way.
Yes, definitely subsonic. Straight wings allowed for the slow landing speed.
I always thought the Gates Learjet was the first business jet.
The Lockheed JetStar predates both the Learjet and the Rockwell Jet Commander.
Me to!
Don't forget all those TV preachers want you to buy them one
"Jet Commode".
Haven't these CEO's heard of Zoom. Oh yeah, this is 1964.
A 12-month warranty, that's all? With that kind of feeble gesture, I'm surprised they sold any.
I fly plane
What a total load of nonsense. even at the time if they had grounded all jets like these little ones in the year 1970 for a few days, it wouldn't have mattered 1 bit to the US economy and our society at the time. If they had stopped all the mainframe computers working, it would've sent our Economy and our society into complete tailspin. These jet planes then were not important and they certainly are less so now.
What would happen if we shut off all the computers even for twelve hours now? we would be at our knees but no one would care about Grounding these little incredibly expensive airplane toys.
This video is elitist and kinda insulting. CEO’s always think that they are special. They don’t need jets, they just want the company to pay for their egalitarian luxury because of huge personal ego.
Not really, EJs allow way more efficient turnaround, especially for smaller cities and towns. Asking a VP to go to nowhere Iowa to see a plant or factory just isn’t going to happen if they are risking 8 hours of regional flights and no way to go to other regional sites directly. Most EJs are not used for biz exec comfort, frankly they are uncomfortable and small. It’s to visit as many sites as possible and get execs back to HQ so they can keep making things happen.
BS. Facts over feelings makes your sour-grapes analysis of the business aviation field inaccurate. Business aviation jets also carry cancer patients, at no charge, in any empty seats they may have aboard to treatment centers for patients that could not afford to go to. Called the Angel Network. Even a tiny study of this industry negates this line of reasoning that jets are only for CEO's that think they are special!
I don’t see that at all
CEOs have had superiority issues since the beginning of time. CEOs aren't the talent nor are they more valuable than workers. If the CEO did nothing as usual, no problem but if the workers did nothing the company would fall apart immediately. We're going to have to teach CEOs and executive staff that they are secondary to the people actually producing the product, after all, there's more of us than them.
Hmmmm I guess that’s why they are paid so much more than those stacking the shelves or punching the rivets in.
@@PibrochPonder I didn't say it made sense.
If the CEO did nothing as usual, no problem
Then your job would cease to exist. But more than likely they would be replaced
there's more of us than them.
And that's your problem.
I worked for a company that flew communications technicians around in a Cessna 560 and a PC-12. With the cost of flying people, tools and test equipment around on commercial aircraft it is cheaper than having them sit in the airport for hours and then not knowing if their tools show up to the job site. Also they can do day trips dropping people off in the morning and picking them up in the afternoon going to multiple sites in a day. Many companies do this where I live.
Well said comrade. 😂