Delta Boeing 747-132 Commercial - 1972
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- Опубліковано 28 кві 2018
- Film from the archives of Mr. David Robbio. Rare commercial from 1972, featuring a brand new Delta 747-100! Delta purchased just five of these aircraft, and then disposed of all five between 1974 & 1977. Be sure to check my channel for the best in VINTAGE & RARE airliner videos! / classicairlinerfilms
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The Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta has a retired Delta 747-400. You can go inside it & walk on a platform on the wing.
Capt. Bell died of a stroke shortly after his 57 birthday in July of '77. RIP Jack. Liked the commercial!
Joe Anderson Any idea about the fate of the other two? Any of them still alive, you think?
Too young to pass but what a career.
From DC 3s to 747s.
Unfortunately, he didn't make it to retirement.
Love the old Delta commercials as a kid. Trademark slogan "Delta is ready when you are" as Delta initially operated the 747 when the queen of the skies first came to market. But decided the L1011 was better suited for its operations. It was interesting to see the 747 reintroduced to Delta after the Northwest merger. Now it is truly amazing to see those 747 retirements from Delta/Northwest. Great aviation historical!!! Thanks for the cool upload!!!!
I flew on delta L1011 from LAX to Honolulu back in summer of 1994.
Jack turns around and asks the guy to shut the heck up, we’re trying to fly a plane up here.
lol
The Delta 747 was the first ever airline i was on as a little kid I've been on other planes since medium, smaller but the 747 was special. Its sad they're retiring those great airplanes ill never forget that first time in the late 80s.
They were retired in 1977
This was made after 1970- say, 1972. The giveaway is the hats on the pilots. They put the Delta "widget" logo on the pilots" caps after the merger with Northeast in 1972. I know- my late father was a retired Delta captain. Also- it's great for this Atlanta Braves fan to see then-Braves play-by-play man Milo Hamilton [it was he who called Hank Aaron's 715th home run in 1974] narrating this commercial!
Thanks!
Back when pilots wore their hats in terminals and greeted passengers after the flight was over.
@@747heavyboeing3 They still do that, moron.
I loved airline ads like this. So much, I thought that is what an airline flight would be like.
"The airline run by professionals". As opposed to "the airline run by a bunch of random people who thought it might be fun to have a go at running an airline?" 😂
Seriously though, thank you for posting these! The first Delta slogan I remember was "Delta Gets You There", but the first one that really stands is "We Love to Fly and It Shows"
Honorable mention goes to: "We're learning to fly, and it shows !"
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That's Milo Hamilton doing the on-air commentary. He was a former play-by-play announcer for the Atlanta Braves.
Yep. I half expected one of his “Holy Toledo” when it rotated.
I flew all over the states decades ago on something called the Delta pass, all you had to do was turn up at an airport that delta or it's feeder airlines flew into and if a seat was available (always was) it was yours - it was completley unlimited although I can't remember if Alaska and Hawaii was included.
Do you remember how much it cost? A number of airlines had similar offerings, sometimes round the world passes that had to be used in one direction only.
Wow. Unbelievable. That would never happen these days!
The gentleman you see doing the narrating is none other than the late, great Milo Hamilton, former play-by-play on-air announcer for the Atlanta Braves baseball team. He did the same previously for the Chicago White Sox and when the Braves moved to Atlanta in 1966, he then became the Braves' announcer. He had a daughter who was a flight attendant for Delta.
It is kind of funny how all the airlines raced to get jumbo jets in the 70s, even if they didn't fit in with their business plan. Delta's 747 would fit in that category. American's 747 too. Those airlines kept their other jumbos for a long time, the 747 not so much.
"Delta is ready when you are." Great slogan, including livery. Why did they ever change these???
This was their best scheme.
The current livery looks terrible.
Gordon here, actually it was 5 , fleet #s 101 to 105 delivered sept.70 thru nov. 71 N9896,N9897,N9898,N9899, and N9900.....traded to Boeing Sept.74 thru april 77
Thanks Gordon, and good to hear from you, too!
Milo Hamilton hosting this commercial. At this time he was the voice of the Atlanta Braves (in Delta's hometown market).
Good old days
That 70’s paint scheme on Delta’s -100’s always seemed to look awkward... that ginormous widget up front maybe?
Delta eliminated the 747 -132 in
1974. The ones they just retired a few years ago was from NORTHWEST Orient Airlines. 747-451 When Delta Acquired Northwest.
Delta is a funny airline when it comes to the 747. They bought them in 1972, decided they were too big and could not fill them, and sold them all within 5 years of buying them. Then they acquired Northwest and their fleet of 747s that flew to the Far East from the hubs in Detroit and Minneapolis/St. Paul. This time the planes were too old, so they sold them as well using newer 777s and 767s (also smaller).
Awesome =D
That's one great plane.
lol with the narrator sitting right behind the captain like that talkin' in his ear, im surprised he didn't turn around and say, "WOULD YOU JUST SHUT UP! IM TRYIN TO FLY THIS 747! SHUT THE HELL UP!"
Flew on a Delta 747 from LHR-IAD in the Summer of 75 coming back from Yugoslavia.
You would have flown either Pan Am (most likely), TWA or British Airways (BOAC) as they were the only carriers flying out of LHR to the US in 1975.
Roholi Delta 747s we’re used on the PA/DL interchange flights from LHR-IAD-ATL and return up to 1976.
Springbok295 I did not know they used Delta metal on the overseas portion. Thank you for educating me!
Flight 107 by chance?
hltibbs I believe so. We switched to an L1011 for the IAD-ATL sector
It's was a very long time.
Incredible.
good airplane ad🤩
analog 100...the coolest
That’s my great great grandpa.
The Queen of the skies. Flying Virgin 747 in July. Subscribed
If memory serves me right I believe Delta used the 747 on the ATL-HNL routes back then? If someone can confirm this, thanks.
Delta did not have routes to Hawaii back then. It was not until the merger with Western Airlines in 1987 that Delta gained its first Hawaiian routes. The first non-stop ATL-HNL routes came after that, and those were with L-1011 TriStars.
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♥ 747
I have a model like this one made by Inflight200. I love it.
Not even on the centerline for takeoff. Nice job jack bell!
He needed to knock back a few more before take-off. Was off his game.
I wonder if any of these guys are still alive? Even the youngest would probably have to be in his 80s now.
Captain Bell died in 1977 of a stroke at 57.
I like to fly with Delta
“Now he’s sitting in the captains seat of a delta seven forty se--“. *SLAP!!!*
Captain: “I said knock it off! I’m trying to fly here!”
What was his last name again?
Before the A380...😧
An interior shot would have been nice.
Delta leased these 747 200 for 7 years and then, they bought l1011.
These aren't 747-200s, they're 747-100s.
For a brief moment, Delta was the only airline to have simultaneously operated the 747, the DC-10 & the L-1011.
@@tiadaid United for a time had all 3 from 85 to 89 when they got the L-1011 from pan am when they acquired the pacific routes.
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Great video, thanks? Why Delta got rid of those so fast?
Fuel efficiency on the long haul routes. I love the 747-400s too but the A350, 777 and possible 787 are much better on fuel, plus they are all twin engine jets.
Thaks very much, Tracey.
I would add (because fuel efficiency was the same for all the early operators) that Delta was in the good company of American, Eastern, Continental and National in transitioning the early 747 routes to newly arriving trijets primarily because these airlines mostly or entirely domestic route structures didn't allow them to offer sufficient daily frequency using the 747. They found themselves with too many empty seats notwithstanding their -100s used the cabins relatively inefficiently by removing seats to make way for passenger lounges and even onboard pubs.
Back in the days of heavy airline regulation, you couldn't fill seats by offering a lower fare. The fares required government approval and the government's mission was stated to be sustaining the industry and ensuring safety, not price cutting. So, instead, amenities such as big new planes, roomy seats and a filet mignon on your coach dinner flight were the primary investments major airlines made to distinguish themselves. (The government didn't dictate culinary offerings.)
Besides good service, there wasn't really a loyalty program. It seems to me in certain respects the airlines earned their loyalty more honestly back then. If some employee got testy with you, you would bail and find a competitor happy to fly you--and there was no loss of elite status or an issue of stranded miles. Indeed, you might fly different airlines inbound and outbound on the same trip just to sample the services. Or you might interline your trip by taking, say, Continental from the West Coast as far as Chicago and then transit to icky United from there to Cleveland, say. The fare was the same whether you eschewed United's service on the first leg or not.
The airlines hadn't yet begun to command loyalty by establishing frequent flyer programs. The draw of these programs can be seen in the success of the hub and spoke route networks that exist to this day and lured passengers to an airline's hub. Before deregulation, it was only the airline fanatic (and I count myself as one) who would be willing to change planes when competing services on a point to point route were served nonstop by a competitor. This evolution to the hub and spoke greatly benefitted the biggest of the major airlines, and THAT helps explain why the big 3, AA, UA and DL are the only names remaining from among the majors. Now that consolidation is nearly complete in this oligarchic pastiche, we're actually seeing a return to the point to point model. Why? Because almost any major route can support at least two of the three airlines plus a regional carrier or oddball like Jet Blue or Southwest. There are simply no more carriers to knock out and the spoils have been divided.
In summary and to address the question more precisely, the reason Delta and the like grounded their 747s wasn't that the 747 was unthinkably inefficient given the aircraft's potential seating capacity and seat cost (including fuel) per mile. It was just a lousy fit when your not consistently pulling 350 passengers per departure time and your longest stage length route is the ATL-LAX market.
Thanks very much for the answers, gentlemen!
Delta leased these 747 for 7 years.
When planes were real planes.
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Too bad Delta didn't keep 747s long.
They did inherit some when they merged with Northwest airlines.
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That narrator dude really shouldn't be talking while the pilot's are trying to taxi the aircraft. Sterile cockpit, buddy !
The sterile cockpit wasn't introduced until 1981.
beautiful airplane! .. Continental Airlines’ Golden Jets - dubbed “The Proud Birds of the Pacific” as with many other early 747 operators their 4 B747-124s were not a good fit for the airline at the time - the Saul Bass designed livery was truly the most beautiful - The Proud Bird with the Golden Tail