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1964 Nice Airport KLM Lockheed L-188 Electra

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Uploaded by on Jan 31, 2008

1964 Nice Airport
A KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Lockheed L-188 Electra arriving.

My dad filming his dad arriving and leaving the aircraft.

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  • Good choice of evocative 1960s music to go with this nice 1960s mini-movie. I flew on a KLM Electra from Milan to Amsterdam in June 1968. I was 10 at the time and remember it quite well. Quite a thing nowadays to have flown on an Electra in Europe, as they only served for about 8 years with KLM-1968 was the last year of operation I believe, when they were replaced by DC9s. The Caravelle was the aircraft, I understand, that sealed the fate of the Electra and Vanguard-passengers preferred pure jet

  • The Electra!! What an elusive aircraft. And Lockheed, what an mysterious company ala civilian passenger planes. The Electra and the Tristar, both great planes, both bittersweet histories. I noticed a Caravelle there in the pic towards the beginning. I guess it was a decent rival to the Electra. Why did the US stick with piston-props so long? They by-passed the turbo-prop era, except of course, for the Electra, which had structural problems at the very time it needed to be solid.

  • The sound of those Allison 501s

  • Hello Analogdriver,

    great video !!!!!

    Yes these were the good old days !!!!

    The Electras did their job !! as good as the Viscounts.

    Regards,

    Hans P. Plesman

  • This is magnificent.

    Rare video + great music of 60's = a perfect result.

    Thank you!

  • WONDERFUL! Thank you.

    Chris

  • My Dad worked for KLM in Beverly Hills...As a kid I was able to travel all over the globe on KLM, back when taking a plane ride was a big thing! Connies, DC-3's, Electras and so many more kewl planes...Luved the Capital Viscounts...They were mega noisy, but had the big round bubble like windows where you could see the whole world passing by...

  • Super 8!! Cool!!

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