Classic Airliners Slideshow - Rare Pictures Restored!
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- A selection of airliner photos that I have restored for Geoffrey Thomas. Here are the links to the groups mentioned in the video: "Douglas DC-6 & DC-7 Series" / 1520050688242015 "Douglas DC-8 World" www.facebook.c... "DC-9 Fan Club" / 431402643571678 "DC-10 Appreciation Group" / 446822298838418 "Convair 880 & 990" / cv880990 "Boeing 707 Fan Club" / 31941070431 "Boeing 727 Group" / 1441727426097978 Be sure to check my channel for the best in VINTAGE & RARE airliner videos! / classicairli. .
I feel blessed to have been a kid when these planes were around. They will always bring back precious memories. Thanks so much
Thanks Michael.
michael hallock hi
Like many here, I'm so thankful to have lived during the 1950's and '60's when, at one point or another, I saw all these aircraft types in person, even flying on them. My very first flight was in 1958 on an American Airlines DC-6B from El Paso, Texas, to Dallas, Texas. We then connected to a Delta Air Lines Constellation L649 and flew from Dallas, Tx., to Atlanta, GA. I remember the trip as if it were yesterday! I miss those days in every sense of the word! Thank you for the memories through sharing these beautiful pictures with us. Great video!
Thank-you sir for compiling these photographs and reminding me of the elegant days of commercial air travel. It is such a shame that people today will never experience how wonderful it used to be to travel by air. Good gosh; air travel today is more like a flying cattle truck.
You're welcome, I'm a big 990 fan too. :-)
The Britannia was gorgeous. And the lines on the tail if that VC-10 are breath-taking.
I worked @ Dobbs house airline caterer. Been on many many classic planes.
707s, DC-9s,727s,...to many to count or remember got to eat the untouched food most of it was GREAT!. Great perks!.
I’m old enough to have had the PRIVILEGE, not only to fly on every one of the airlines pictured, but on EVERY ONE OF THE AIRCRAFT PICTURED! My favorite will always be the B-707/720B and the DC-8-61. I can remember flying on Deltas CV-990 ... boy when that thing screamed down the runway, it felt like we were in a rocket! What I wouldn’t give to fly on the DC-7 again. I think there’s a “historical club” down in Miami that fully restored an Eastern Airlines DC-7 that occasionally you can book to ride on ???
When I saw the American BAC 1-11 I nearly lost it. I flew, as in, I was the pilot, of a BAC 1-11, N5034 then VR-BHS, then N333GB. All the same plane. Yes it started life as American N5034 then went to a corporate aircraft, that's when I got involved with it.
Love you videos. Thanks.
These are STUNNING photos. Especially all the Astrojets. What a time to be alive and how futuristic and glorious they must have looked up close in person.
We will miss those DC-8s!
Great collection of photos and a great soundtrack to listen to while reminiscing. Thanks
You're very welcome.
Wow, great work! These photos bring back great memories... My Dad was a passenger service agent for Capital/UAL from 1947 to 1982. Such fond memories of the true Golden Age of jet travel! Thanks so much for your films!
Thank you, Matthew.
Wow! That restoration guy is incredible.
Thanks Yak! I can be hired anytime, and am always looking for work.
Flight line at Renton, Wash. at 1:27. Outside the Boeing plant in Renton at 2:59. Nice photos. Thanks.
Another gem by Classic Airliners. At least we have these videos to remember when commercial jet travel was an exciting and enjoyable experience. I know that's extremely difficult to believe considering how it is today but it's true. Commercial jets used to look great, sound great, have comfortable seating, great service. I'm serious...stop laughing...it's true!
Awesome! I have never thought of you restoring old aviation photos.
Thank you, Nick.
Convair 880's and 990's are such beautiful aircraft. Shame they were such a a flop even at the time.
Yeah, absolutely agree
The Boeing and Douglas companies got together and forced Convair to quit making the 880s and 990s because the were faster and more luxurious than the other 707 and DC8 !!! The only drawback was Convairs carried less passengers!!!
Abbe Henner And they were inefficient even for the time.
I do so agree with you. An American Airlines 990 was the first jet airliner on which I flew, so I do have a nostalgic tender spot for this aircraft. This website briefly encapsulates why the 880 and 990 were not popular www.dailykos.com/story/2015/1/12/1357004/-Great-Might-Have-Beens-Convair-880. Enjoy!
What forced them out of the market was the fact the Convairs were 5-abreast seating, while the DC-8 & 707 were 6-abreast. The airlines preferred the 6-abreast (for profits, of course) and this limited the number of orders taken. Delta Air Lines was the launch customer of the 880 and retired them in 1974 due to the gas crisis of 1973 that cause fuel prices to skyrocket. Delta, TWA and Northeast were the only customers of the 880. American was the lone customer for the Coronado 990 (named after Coronado Island in San Diego, Convair's HQ's).
Beautiful stuff
I THANK TWA 4 TRAINING ETHIOPIAN AIR LINES BACK IN 1960 !
Love these pictures they are Priceless and the work you have done is amazing. Thank You. My fav is BAC 1-11 as I used be an FA on this aircraft in UK many years ago.
Thanks Jim, I have enough of these pics to do two or three more volumes, so I may do more if there is enough interest.
It was nice seeing those old planes again. I remember them when they were new. Why can't we look in silence? Why does everyone think they have to provide music to look at slides. I know, turn the sound off. I did, but I just want you to know not everyone likes music with slides. Thanks for posting that vintage aircraft. Merry Christmas!!
Thank you Rick, Merry Christmas to you as well.
spectacular...as always
Good to hear from you Eric, and thank you.
Amo esses Veteranos
parabéns Mesmo pelo Vídeo.
Great job 🤗
Awesome video!
Why did the old jets smoke so much? Was the combustion that incomplete?
Loved airplanes ever since I was a kid in the 50's. My brothers and I would ride our bikes out the the "Cincinnati" airport that is in KY - a ride of about 8 miles - just to see them.
Many year later in 1993 I finally got my pilot license.
4 years old my first flight was a 707 LAX - LHR been looking for a passenger manifest for the last few years :-)
Wish I could fly on these planes today
O Khan bb knbh
love that
Those early jets were real dirty birds!
Beautiful photo series! I'm curious -- what track did you use for your music bed?
That Qantas 707 survives to this day at the Qantas Founders Museum in Longreach AU.
And at John Travolta's house in Florida - He's still flying a former Qantas one !
Darned shame there's no more CV 990s around. Those fan jets and speed pods were a sight to see. Great photos of the sexist passenger jet ever!
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What's the plane at 1:47 ? Thanks!
That would be a Bristol Britannia, also at 2:30.
WillwesayingthatabouttheA380Airbusithnknot
Howard Fisher Of course not, just a copy of a 747. We don't need another kind of 747.
4:13 submarine look like