The Boeing 707 Arrives At Idlewild Airport - Pan American Airways Newsreel

[xr6lad]

boy look at the width of those seats.....

[16924fps]

This is an early 707 with the JT3 turbojets. They were noisy and a tad bit underpowered. JetMechA is right about the water injection. That's why you see all the smoke during some takeoffs. The later JT3D turbofans were more powerful and (relatively) less noisy. Used to hear these all the time going in and out of Philly International.

[GracieAncelotti]

Funny how things have changed. Like Idlewild to Kennedy Airport, and the noise "reduction system" is terrible back then, but apparently it worked. I, as a pilot, have never heard/seen a jet that doesn't make noise. Maybe the A380, but that is still loud. hmmm...

[DaMuttzNutz]

Noise test, my arse. The Americans just hated the thought that other countries beat them to civil jet aircraft. Same shit nearly happened again when Concord went into service.

[ostrich67]

@DaMuttzNutz And they were SOOO successful too. Frankly I find the British "imperial" national chauvinism tiresome; especially when you no longer have an empire.

[xr6lad]

@ostrich67

as against the 'american' imperial chauvinism..going around bombing the world.....

[ostrich67]

@xr6lad Touche'! Our historically Anglophilic elite learned from the very best!

[AmericanAirlinesRule]

@xr6lad America rules.

[itsmegp46]

@DaMuttzNutz You mean the DeHavilland Exploder....er... I mean, Comet. The Comet never had a chance as it was originally introduced, even if it didn't have that nasty habit of coming apart at the seams in mid flight. With a passenger payload of 34-48 it was just too small.

[78logistics]

They were called Jet Stratocruisers for a while

[P8NTBALL60]

man, thats when JFK was still Idlewild

[jjleuti]

this is a jet clipper, not a stratocruiser (boeing 377) powered by piston engines, commercial version of the b-29 bomber.

the exhaust tubes were for water injection, which made them smoke like chimneys.

[JetMechMA]

@jjleuti He says it right at :23...the exhaust tubes are for noise supression. Water injection is introduced after the combustor cans. The principle is expanding water (steam) provides more thrust. B-52D models had about 30 seconds of water injection boost, KC-135s had twice as much I think. Only used it above 40 degrees F for obvious reasons.

[frankmunoz27]

The seriously sexy seven oh seven!

[bratonabike]

im not surprised that the 707 was banned at some airport due to exessive noise, the technology those days was more primitive than today hence the crude way of noise reduction

[polecat987]

In case u dont know where Puerto Rico is, it is US island in the caribbean, the airport the used is Isla Grande Airport (TJIG) now is a regional airport but then it was the international airport of our island and was served by Pan Am, Lufthansa and others.

[tannagra]

Those exhaust pipes looked very reminiscent of the ones the ships had on the Flash Gordon serial with Buster Crabbe.

[pelagic6]

Interesting noise reduction system.

[bywestonbay]

Yeh, check out those exhaust vanes on the engines. I mean WTF? Saying that though the 707 is still a beautiful bird. Notice the window arrangement at the cockpit- surely a template for the 727 and 737's which we fly today.

Rather ironic also that today's aircraft are vastly more fuel efficient and quieter and yet now are vilified as one of the main causes of climate change. Most anti-aviation types obviously have never seen a 707 take off and climbout!

[Fastbikkel]

@bywestonbay

I'm pretty sure they are from the same production line. It would be the smartest way for any manufacturer.

[sealalula]

Nice :P

[apollofsx]

Magic.

[FSim4ever]

the engine looks nice xD

[skyfox1068]

I always loved the 707!

[mmdghr]

airboyd you rule !!!!!

[Phil6219]

Wow that's a great piece of history. Excellent video.

[Asofnowyoudie]

sweet vid.