6 1/2 Magic Hours (1958) - Pan Am Jet Clipper Service

[CentsTwo]

wow the food

[SPECTRE1961]

Sensacional !

[thedreamliner2012]

sigh...I was born in the wrong era. Just look at how life was back then. See anyone wearing flipflops or t-shirts? Notice the food that was served was REAL? When you went out in public, you dressed accordingly. You took pride in your appearance. No politically correct B.S. to deal with. For the love of Pete, the flight attendant, called stewardess back then, although they do the same job, lit a guys cigarette herself with a match! ahhh...to live in the fifties. You can have your iPhones.

[Koide9]

Having traveled to many countries on countless planes, I cannot imagine a trans-Atlantic flight in a suit a tie!!!

[Psychedelia1969]

Idlewild........i love it!!

[ucmd6969]

Slight correction to Boeingman707 : The information on John Travolta's 707 is correct except it was delivered factory new to Qantas in 1964, then later was sold to Braniff in 1969. It was owned by several other users until it was purchased by John Travolta. 

[JustinTBall]

I definitely remember the first Pan Am Jet Clipper flight being NYC to Paris, not London. Am I mistaken after all these years?

[Mr2pint]

if only we could keep the population at a steady level, enjoying the benefits of progress with the impossible challenge of unsustainable numbers of people.

nice video, seems such a romantic era, certainly not as stressful

[JIM30747]

These are excellent videos!

[pimpedarse]

Anyone interested in this video should watch the new show Pan Am. Look it up it's amazinnnnggg.

[ChorltonM21]

Is this the 707 that is now owned by John Travolta formerly N707PA now N707JT?

[boeingman777]

@ChorltonM21

This is not John Travolta's 707. His 707-138B was built in 1964, constructed at Boeing Seattle and has Boeing Construction Number 18740 Line 388. It never flew for Pan Am (and would not have been in this video if it had) but did fly for Braniff International and its final service was with Qantas. :)

[MoilAndToil]

9:14

9.16 I can see the WW2 bombed site where the hi-rise apartment building I live in is; which was not built until 1960.

I can see the Westminster School Playing Field, which exists the same today and which appears so, in this vt.

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Très intéresting !

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Also visible are the extensive areas of WW2 bombed land that is cleared and waiting development around the St.Paul's Cathedral Building.

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[JeffHallPlaysFenders]

N707PA  Love it.

[ford9572]

"You feel as though you haven't traveled at all." "You arrive without feeling fatigued.", Yeah, Right!!! I've flown from Atlanta to Amsterdam, Chicago to London and Atalanta to Johannesburg & back, And let me tell you, I felt MORE than a little fatigued!!! Not a bad marketing strategy though.

[TJ347]

"...To prepare for the advent of commercial flying by jet CLIPPA..."

[spence767]

"No engine warmup," "no vibration," "hardly any sound".....

Having several years' experience flying the 707, I can say that the above statements are typical marketing lies.

[frbjoernLA]

@spence767 You Obviously Never flew frequently on commercial flights in a DC3, a DC4, a DC6 or an Electra as some of us had the joy of doing. The "above statements" were obviously made by a veteran flyer who knew the difference from experience and enjoyed flying in all types of commercial Aircraft.

[spence767]

@frbjoernLA No, actually, the "above" statements were made as advertising copy for the promotional film and are part of the audio... and yes, I have flown frequently on the Electra, and also the Vickers Viscount - - early experiences on these aircraft led to a military and civilian pilot career. Turbojet aircraft, like recips, require warmup, are plenty noisy, and while there is less vibration and related harmonics, they are certainly far from free of such.

[airplanebuilderman]

New tv show PAN AM. it's about the pan am stewartis' (sorry about the spelling)

[MealyMouthedLeach]

@airplanebuilderman Dear builder, you are on the Internet, can't you Google for the correct spelling of any word, you know you're unsure of ?

[airplanebuilderman]

@MealyMouthedLeach Nobody's perfect dude. And it all depends whaere I am and what I'm doing at the time I write the comment.

[MealyMouthedLeach]

@airplanebuilderman

Dear Builderman.,

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Hilarious !

[robinbrannon1]

I remember being able to board the aircraft from the front or rear doors....

[GracieAncelotti]

It's been a while since I've been on a 707

[mikel1982]

I watch these for the music,... and the lack of HSBC logos on the jetways.

[onecunningfox]

@mikel1982

I like this comment. So true - no damn HSBC logos plastered over even worse and filthy Heathrow Airport structures.

[MealyMouthedLeach]

@mikel1982 The HongKong & Shanghai logo is not so bad, it is the lettering of the name that is much more commonly seen.

[evangar]

Aren't they saying the same shit about the new 787 cabin lighting? If it was available then, what is so revolutionary about it now? Conference call to Boeing tomorrow.

[itsmegp46]

Wow, hot food is being prepared and served, in coach even! Now we're lucky if the stewar....er... I mean the flight attendant throws a bag of peanuts at you.

[robinbrannon1]

@itsmegp46 I remember once being on a flight and calling the flight attendant a stewardess...she damn near cussed me out and said "I am not a stewardess, I am a flight attendant".....I said, I don't know what the difference is. I was only 12!!!

[itsmegp46]

@robinbrannon1 Its a shame your parents or whomever was traveling with you didn't file a compliant. I would have if she yelled at my 12 year old. thanks!

[frbjoernLA]

@robinbrannon1 Gee!! You got a very touchy Stewardess. I dated two Stewardesses (At different times!!) and they were never offended at being addressed as: Stewardess . Maybe the ones you encountered were never candidates for the title "Mrs."!!???

[martincpeterson]

haha stewardess lights the guy's smoke

[martincpeterson]

haha air canada gives one little bag of sesame stix

[mikel1982]

@martincpeterson not on transatlantic flights dude.

[combustercan]

I remember flying on a 737/200 from Manchester to Palma de Mallorca back in 1978, & when we landed at palma a photographer would take your picture as you came down the airstairs, i was about 11 and my brother was about 9, he was scarred sh*tless & hanging on to my grandmothers coat-tails as we walked across the tarmac, & i was trying to get a look at the port engine, yeah the end of the seventies, that was when the golden age of air travel ended in my opinion.

[ngatifalla]

Thunderbirds are GO!!

[Iluthra]

"The travail has been taken out of travel."

Well, it's been put back in. Flying is not fun anymore.

[PictureVlogs]

"Delicious food" ~ hahaha Ya RIght.

[bigtampabear]

Great video..I started with National Airlines in 1974...was with Pan Am till 1984...Now retired with American Airlines after 22 years...My dad was a mechanic with Eastern...I was on the ramp in Tampa, Fla. and Houston, Texas...Thanks for the memories.

[MrRonnieG]

I wonder how much of a delay there would have been for Pan Am's flight 1000 if the August 6, 1955 flight of the prototype Boeing 367-80 (a.k.a. Dash 80) by Boeing test pilot Alvin "Tex" Johnston over Seattle's 1955 Seafair & Gold Cup Hydroplane Races (held on Lake Washington) had gone bad. Johnston was only suppose to make a simple flyover over the event BUT Tex decided to blow everyone away by making a complete barrel roll with the big Boeing. There was NO backup plane if Tex had screwed up!

[skyblazer7]

53 years later and we're still stuck at sub-sonic for air travel...sad. Travel speed hasn't been this stagnant since before the mid-19th century.

[itsmegp46]

@skyblazer7 Perhaps a bit slower today in the interests of fuel economy.  But, on the flip side, air travel is many, many times safer today than a half century ago even with many more flights in the air.

[danegolden]

This is spectacular.

[stfergus608]

reminds me of bugs bunny cartoons

[wakine911]

I wish airline service was still like this :C

Or atleast some planes had them like this

[LuxuriousLuxembourg]

i love these things.

[adityahibare]

Todays seen at airport......every hour hundreds of flights take off and land quitely......but what we are missing is those roraring and screeming sound of turbo jet engines.........Pan am 1 great airline.to history......we miss u Pan am.

[EinkOLED]

Where has the appreciation for air travel gone?

Perhaps another ash cloud will remind people how difficult it is to travel 1000 miles on road, rail and sea.

I took a 12 hour coach journey on the equivalent of a 1.5 hour flight, so the journey of getting to the airport and checking in is nothing in comparison.

[PanAmPatrick]

What an advancement for Pan Am. If only flying was still like that today! Attractive stewardesses (hard to find today), delicious meals like prime rib or steak, and beautiful fast planes. By the way, isn't the guy at 7:14 the First Officer, not Captain?

[ismrez1]

Loved it!!!!

[jambuckerwarblast]

why look no chemtrails! o yer i forgot they dont spray the queen on her birthday lol

[fsx767]

Who doesn't want to fly with Tom & Jerry music?!!

[madcrowmaxwell]

Ah, the dawn of the jet age, where even Coach passengers got 36-38 inches of leg room, airplanes came equipped with smoking lounges and the cabin could be really quiet because engine designers didn't have to worry about noise pollution laws, just making the inside of the plane quiet. Good times...

[pop5444]

Uhh no sound LOL!!! Uh theres things called turbulence :p

[MJ5er]

1. there were only two doors? do the flight attendants give safety instructions?

2. ive never been on a flight longer than 3 hours, but i have never seen "powder rooms", let only two next to each other and that big. 3.the food looked amazing for airplane food.4. no one dresses nice anymore5. flight attendants were very kind and courteous and it wasnt fake. SHE ACTUALLY TUCKED IN THE PASSENGER.

6. the plane must have reeked of cigarettes gross they all died of cancer from the 6 1/2 hour clambakes

[saxmastergq]

Ah, the golden age of jet travel. I wish I lived in this romantic era, where anything seemed possible. An era full of optimistism and that "can do!" attitude. I'm glad they made movies like this so us youngsters could have a feel and sense of what it was like way back when.

[mrkprice]

II always have jet lag what were they doing right???

[tirolausa]

@mrkprice: They didn't know about jet lag yet! ;) And I guess compared with the discomforts of flying with a prop liner, jet lag would have been just a minor inconvenience.

[ChorltonM21]

The featured 707 in this film doesn't have a "Clipper" name on the front like Westward Ho or Red Rover etc.

[hurricane1587]

Loved the concept model for Idlewild Airport, which would be named JFK.  Also, while the First Class lobster on fine china would be a dream, I would feel like a king if I could just get that Coach meal today.

[airplanebuilderman]

anyone notice the first officer made the announcement and not the captian

[737Mrpilot]

@airplanebuilderman lol

[kutaswdupe]

2011 With Ground Delays, and 2 hour waits to take off at JFK, and dealing with TSA on top of that they should do a 2011 follow up called "9 Miserable Hours"

[Aussiemarco]

From the age when air travel was for the privileged few and the rest of us had to go by sea. Back then, Sydney to London return cost about the same as a new car.

[ford9572]

@msk7046 My Date Of Birth is: September 5, 1972, I can remember flying mostly on 727s and DC-10s, Yes people did get dressed up to fly!! Times have sure changed!!

[KOSUB11]

This makes me want to go and fly in a 707!

[londonsharK]

Musics are like Thuderbird.

lol

[ford9572]

I would've LOVED to have been around during that time!!!!

[msk7046]

@ford9572 -Yes, you would have! May I ask when you were born? I did a lot of flying in the 60s and 70s. WHAT a difference. People actually DID get dressed up to fly.

[MsTimelady71]

@msk7046 I'm about your age and I don't remember getting dressed up to fly. However, I do know that no one would have worn sweat pants or flip-flops on the plane. As children, the stewardess always talked with us and gave us a deck of cards and those plastic pilot wings! And if you were really lucky, you'd get a peek into the cockpit! It was wonderful to fly then and it was part of the experience.

Nowadays, between all the rules and regulations, I'd rather be beamed up a la Star Trek

[msk7046]

@MsTimelady71 -- I remember the older adult men usually wearing a shirt and tie and, in general, "business casual" would be a good way to describe my memories of flying in the late 60's through early 70's. Nowadays, many dress like they were in a bus. Then again, WE - the customers - were treated with respect then.

I remember during a layover in Atlanta on a L-1011, the captain let me IN the cockpit UNATTENDED and I was taking pictures with my new 35-mm camera! Some great memories!

[dpurdue]

Jet clipper rules! Just look at the room (not just the exit rows that are hard to book today)!

[1981OSNY]

If only ...

[WestSideModSquad]

A wonderful time & exceptional airline (miss PanAm) but did he say "air-conditioned but draft free???" Makes you wonder what flying was like before the jet age...lol.

[MaccaIsYoDaddy]

Look at those bathrooms! The comfy seats! The pleasant stewardesses! The food! Have we regressed a little since then?

[TheVineyarder]

magic hours!..yeah yeah thats what they were...magic..but you know I really do miss those days

[bieasy]

Golden sixties... Everything was possible then....

[gamorza2002]

8:38 make me fall of my chair to laugh. Its incredible how we change.

[username5954]

This was the way flying is supposed to be. I wish they hadn't changed it.

[FlyBoeing777]

5:30 - Do I see some extreme up elevator? Someone is used to flying taildraggers!!

[EinkOLED]

6 1/2 hours from New York to London?

That's faster than todays jets which take in the region of 7 hours!!!!!!

Jet travel has not really changed that much since the late 50's, I mean it was possible to fly from new york - london on a jet over 50 years ago just as it is possible now.

[DYLAV8R]

@EinkOLED um that has something to do with traffic of today, possibly quadrupling since the 50's, new procedural requirements, NAT Tracks... the list could go on and on...

[Ms11565]

yeah cigarettes on a plane made it smell---but at that time it seemed no one really seemed to notice...I'd ride in one again, because when I was on them in the early 60's coach had LEGROOM and seats that really RECLINED!!! Comfort...what a concept! And REAL meals-- I was on a PanAm 707-321B and a Northwest Orient 707-351B and coach then was better than first class now. You won't find this on a 777, that's for sure.

[davidLw15]

@Ms11565 Good observation! I had the pleasure of boarding dozens of Pan Am and QANTAS Boeing 707s in the very early sixties and well into the seventies. The flights were much less crowded due to fewer seats. Don't forget, jet kerosene fuel cost only $0.10 per gallon! I have great personal memories of boarding the 707 and still feel it was Boeing's best product. I miss the 707 and the golden age of commercial jet service. Thanks reminding me of those days.

[lotwyo]

It ought to have been very dirt and sour with all those people smoking inside the aircraft!

[TJlive5]

i would still fly on a 777 then on that! 

[MIDNAq1LINK]

Motherfuckers take your homeland security out of my country, they put the "travail" back into travel. I don't wanna look like a terrorist when I fly a 1 hour flight between Canada and U.S.

[plopkinggamer]

i can get there in a paper plane in an hour

[AgentPepsi1]

Where can I take a Jet-Clipper flight?

Where can I find "scenes of living room quiet and relaxation"?

[velocity8900]

HAVE TO LOVE IT MAN, WHAT A CLASSIC LOL! MAKES ME THINK WHAT THE OLD DAYS USE TO BE LIKE FLYING!

[kirgiz1981]

it's wonderful! so nastalgic...

[drav1dan]

1958: "The travail has been taken out of travel".

2008: "The travail has been put back into travel - and some".

[Jeteaime65]

Since 9/11, the travail has been put back into travel.

[PanAm812]

Just wonderful - If only we could still fly a

Pan American Jet Clipper - I've worked

For Qantas Airways for 35 years and it's

a great airline but I dearly miss PAN AM -

[davidLw15]

@PanAm812 I was aboard Clipper flight 812 from Sydney-Nandi-Honolulu-LA, May 30, 1963, a flight I'll remember so very well aboard a Boeing 707. I still maintain my old passport indicating arrival through INS on that day and I still have the ticket receipt. I was on flight 811 going down the same route on Feb 3, 1963 and arrived on Feb 5. Your call sign ":PanAm812" must mean you knew that flight and route!? Regards to a fellow 707 lover.

[Treetop64]

Gawd that luggage is ugly!

Beautiful plane, though

[SFConifer]

Was this the start of the first jet-age mile high club?

[socaldude83]

@SFConifer LOL

[burgundyyears]

What I learned from this video was that 11 year old girls love 10 piece puzzles and coloring books.

[Patriciasinger]

Narrated by Jose Ferrer.

[less01]

hay Alfredoo deja la propaganda chavista... por favor

[rickmissel]

smooooking!!! Fucked up to the meals...

[antimatterXXXIII]

"Hardly any sound" - RIGHT!!!

[umahuma4]

Idlewield? is that before JFK?

[oaklucas]

Yeah - Idyllwild is what the airport was called, before it was named after JFK.

[cuttingwoodnow]

Must be B707-100 not B!

[alfredojose23]

El catering de esos vuelos es identico al que tiene actualmente CONVIASA, VENEZUELA!! JEJEEJJEJEJEJEJE

[matatan69]

Coño, se que los chavistas son unos lambones pero tu te pasaste..

[alfredojose23]

Caramba buscate en el diccionario la palabra "IRONIA" o "IRONICO".

jejejejej

[SENATOR747]

FANTASTIC!!!! Than you....

[willyboi708]

"The travail has been taken out of air travel!" Wish it were still so. I think somebody decided to put it back in! LOL!!! Love this film, thanks.

[DianaBoston]

I wish the food these days was the same as it was back then. Oh, and smoking too.

When I see these vintage vids I imagine flying the new A380 into the scene. LOL

[greenpointguy]

"you feel as if you haven't traveled at all"...I dunno, when I fly from NY to London, I feel like my ass was kicked...and that 's on even faster, quieter planes than 1958...

[edmonton67]

@greenpointguy Really? What modern aircraft today flies at a cruise speed of 590 MPH not a top speed?The 707 did. 787  @561 mph (Projected) 777 @560 mph 767 @530 mph. 757 @530 mph 747-400 @567 mph 737-800 @583 mph. Airbus A318 511 mph Airbus A319 520 mph Airbus a320 525 mph Airbus a330 537 mph Airbus a340-600 555 mph Airbus a350 577 mph (projected) Airbus a380 560 mph Tupolev TU-204|214 510 mph

[TonyFirelli]

@edmonton67 Concorde use to fly this in 3 magic hours xD

[doulasc]

look at the food.I flew continental recently all I got was a muffin and no butter.

[hugoboyxxi]

Look at the catering service, similar as LAN CHILE!! heheheheh.

[FFlyDDrum1]

cool to see this.

[rllang01]

what a wonderful video.... i remember the 707s as a kid, and when the newer 727s came out i still wanted to fly in the 707s. they were magic.

[boneheadvideo]

great vid. my dad flew 707's for p.a.a. back in the day.he was based out of miami.

[aztlaxpuroazul]

fantastic vid! i love historic clips showing a snapshot of that time frame; hehe @ the announcer "jet clippA" and weathA...shoot, who u kiddin they had flow even back then :)

[negativenation]

The golden age of airline travel-what happened?

[blrstud84]

god bless the wright brothers

[captredwing]

This is to the Jet Age, as the DC-3 was to earlier passenger service.

[okee7]

I remember seeing PanAm 747's as a kid.

How did this nostalgic icon and of commercial aviation collapse !!!!

[Harmon98]

National Airlines

[deapost]

They were serving coffee out of silver pots, has large powder rooms, served Lobster (from what it looked like)

Those expenses took a toll on their operating costs.

Now planes are packed like sardines and they still have trouble making it.'

[AllanVictoriaA]

Hey, I spotted one of my pieces of lost luggage on this video!!!!

[AllanVictoriaA]

01:58 I am certain that is my bag...now I know what happened to it...

[jonathankochhougaard]

N707PA :-D

[evoGage]

The Americans tend to use fahrenheit instead of celsius. If it were 64°C then most people would not be able to survive.

[WakeUpDummies]

LOL!! I am American but I use C. Well, I am a scientist so.. :)

[evoGage]

Well your one of a kind lol but most people in the U.S don't use the metric system.

[WakeUpDummies]

There are more than one American Scientists! LOL! :)

It's true tho that under normal circumstances we use the imperial scale. Metric is much easier tho. Everything based on ten. milli, micro, nano, pico, etc.. it's way better.

[evoGage]

lol it's was a compliement to you. I'm glad you use the metric system. Anyway back on topic, good to see some vintage footage of 707 and Pan Am.

[WakeUpDummies]

I know... just being a goof ;) Indeed.. very cool old but goody footage. The way these announcer spoke back then! Cracks me up! So serious. I sort of miss those days.

[riverdave7]

64 c ...

[Hansbolle]

64°C*

[gangsta463]

ever heard about fahrenheit :P

[Hansbolle]

mh yeah I think you're right^^ I did not think about Fahrenheit last time :D How stupid :D

[Hansbolle]

weather in london is avout 63 °C??? eeeh a LITTLE hot? But really awesome Video! :)

[qazme]

ell how cool is that. Too bad the airlines aren't all about customers like that now. Of course flying isn't considered a luxury now, just another commodity. Thanks for sharing.

[skinyboi2]

61/2 hours in a plane doesn't seem like little anymore >_>

[skyblazer7]

LOL. Seriously. You'd think in 50 years we would cut that time in half in general, but it wasn't to be. Speed wise, we've been stuck in in limbo for 40 years. Those were innovative times. We need those times again.

[0611930024838]

nice