Boeing777 - 1995 May 30th Steve Scott United Airlines Test Flight N766UA B777 Serial
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- On 30th May 1995 , Steve Scott (narrator) and a select team of London (LHR) United Airlines based flight attendants and USA Pilots , brought this Boeing 777-222 from Washington Dulles (IAD) to London Heathrow (LHR).The aircraft was a brand new model and The United States FFA needed to see flight attendants in action "testing" the aircraft cabin and performing safety proceedures. This proceedure was one of many proceedures needed for the aircraft to achieve accreditation.
The aircraft went in to commercial service on June 7th 1995 , 8 days after this video was shot. United Airlines was the launch customer.
This is not an official video, it was simply shot by Steve Scott to be a memory of one day in his career. - Věda a technologie
The last proper Boeing built plane.
I thought that was the 737NG series
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Blame the McDonnell Douglas “merger”.
Yep
I was a member of the Atlantic Division in 1995 and most probably saw you there. I was in the promo shot they took with that first flight. Great memories.
Thanks for your comment co-worker x
What a shame it was scrapped so early.
It was always remarkable seeing such a huge engine for the time. PW did a great job until they decided widebody engines aren't their thing anymore.
n now pw engine exploding very commonly on 777...
@boeingcargo2920 that’s because it’s old.
I like the 1990s banter about the flight attendants.
Awesome nostalgia watching this video! Great work!
Even crazier is when you mentioned barry island (where i live!)
i mentioned it as i was born and grew up in Pontyclun x
Priceless footage. It's always the same ones who get annoyed at cameras that then lament the lack of available footage after. Fuck em. Events happen to be filmed
Oh I miss those business class seats and the carpeted bulkhead! Such a gorgeous plane!
Sadly she was broken up in 2011 at Lourdes, France
A service life of only 15 years? Sad!
I loved those seat covers back then!
Something crazy about me watching this is that my uncle and dad are called Steve and Scott
This aircraft (N766UA), went to Air India back in 2006. Shows stored in 2010 and owned by Wells Fargo Bank.
it was scrapped in 2011
100% awesome I love it.
Love that old tulip livery, looked really nice that September morning.
battleship gray
may, not september
I see what you did there
The grey looked soooo igly imo
I loved the blue united livery and the (again) current blue livery with blue globus ball
What an innocent time that was! I don't know if it's my age talking (I would turn 25 exactly 2 months after this video was initially shot) or it actually was compared to 29 years later. I know that in 1995 they said 1965 was an innocent time. For aviation, and 6 years pre 9/11 it definitely was. I was living in NYC and flying regularly, mostly on either USAir (LGA) or Continental (EWR) and seeing the UA 747 and the trio of one of my favorite combinations of livery and aircraft, the AA DC-10's! I rarely saw them when I flew (usually EWR, AA didn't fly anywhere from LGA to need them) but when I would I couldn't keep my eyes off of it. I kinda had a thing for the old Northwest Orient livery / 727 combo. And the Eastern Airlines metallic livery on a 727 or one of their rare 747's. And remember the Peoples Express 747's!? I even remember seeing Pan Am & TWA 747's on rare occasions. And the first time I flew out of JFK on that new airline JetBlue seeing so many 747's I couldn't stand it! But getting to see both the BA & AF Concords parked at their gates, at the same time, was pretty spectacular. Thanks for the time machine!
I liked the old red meatball continental livery
Looks like the flight attendants will be sucked into the jet engine, just like Mary Poppins
You mean Sherry Bobbins
I was in 4th grade at the time.
Steve seems nervous
Yes i was ! The filming was not planned . I just had my video camera with me on my layover and decided to bring it out for this flight. So , i was speaking off the top of my head and there was a crowd around me !
Why did they do that 2-5-2 config in economy? We used to have it on our DC-10’s at Bcal and BA. It was bloody awful for the person sat in the middle. So glad we went to the 3-3-3 on our 777’s.
2-5-2 is actually preferable for all but the individual who ends up in the middle of five. A 3-3-3 configuration requires passengers in windows on both sides of the aircraft to climb over two people to exit to the aisle. 2-5-2 requires only the middle seat to climb over two people to exit and thus reduces the occurrences of this by half. Airlines moved to 3-3-3 (and now ultimately 3-4-3 which is far worse on a 777) mainly because modern entertainment system boxes could not control five seat rows and thus 2-5-2 would require four boxes per row of nine whereas 3-3-3 would only require three.
Well, now it's 3-4-3, which has 4 "middle" seats per row (as opposed to 3) and 1 more seat crammed into the same fuselage. I'd gladly trade back to the 2-5-2, even though it wasn't the ideal configuration.