AMERICAN AIRLINES BOEING 707 ASTROJET PROMOTIONAL FILM 46134
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American Airlines and Pratt & Whitney Aircraft (a division of United Aircraft Corporation) bring the viewer “The 707 Astrojet” - a 1961 color film touting the aircraft. Called “a familiar friend” to the modern traveler, a silver passenger jet is shown in flight as the narrator explains (starting at mark 00:52) the American Airlines wanted to bring its clients a more powerful aircraft with higher cruising speeds and shorter take-off and landing capabilities. At mark 02:19, he details the design of American Airlines’ jets as an engineer illustrates the description on paper - “a study in simplicity.” At mark 03:51, he explains that Pratt & Witney engineers improved upon the design by adding a fan and outer shroud to an existing engine design, increasing thrust. “It was called a turbo fan, or fan jet,” the narrator says at mark 04:30, as another engine illustration fills the screen before moving onto scenes of the engine’s construction. The turbo fan engine ultimately led to a new aircraft design, with such a discussion beginning at mark 05:30. The newly designed “Astrojet” is shown on a runway beginning at mark 09:00, as it slowly rolls down the runway and takes off into the sky. “No one will travel faster than you will on an Astrojet.”
Just two years after the launch of pioneering regular domestic jet service in the US with the Boeing 707, American was first with the much more powerful and efficient turbofan engines for its jet fleet.
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As an AA employee I was lucky to ride the 707 nonstop JFK to Honolulu in First Class on my honeymoon in 1971 .Awesome plane
That's a mighy long flight. My father worked for AA too, so I grew up on 707's too.
Captain Harvey Beebe Jr flew every version of the 707 during his 32 year career with Pan American World Airways. He was my father and an aviation pioneer. He died in his mid 80s.
@Charles Martel Always what a JERK!.
@@packingten he was jokking
That’s a proud record. I wonder how many total hours flying time he had? It had to be way up there.
Your dad was a titan of flying!
I bet he saw many changes throughout his time there I love all these old vintage movies and unlike the madness of today travel then was much more peaceful and a really pleasant experience so sad to think we've gone from that to this where flight attendants and crew are attacked and assaulted by some of the wackadoodles that really shouldn't even be allowed to board an aircraft let alone travel on one I mean it is truly sad 😢 the way society has changed those were the good ol days indeed.
That was quite the crow hop at 1:30. Lands like me. Porpoised halfway down the runway. I’m surprised that made the film.
I thought the same! Same with 1:07 where engine #4 barfs
My father, Captain Harvey Beebe Jr,flew every single version of the 707 ever built during his professional career of 32 years of meritorious service with Pan American World Airways. The world will never see another pilot like that of Captain Harvey Beebe Jr again. In his entire career both professionally and privately,he never put a scratch on himself an airplane or anyone he transported. His career spanned 56 years and over 55,000 flight hours. The world will never see another pilot like that again.
You cant deny that usa 50s marketing and narrator voice. Strong simple effective
Нови Сад Србија So true. I often think that. No millennial sounds this way. Different animal altogether. More masculine, mature and intelligent sounding.
Could sell Marlboro cigarettes with that voice
Actually 1961.
What a beautiful jet. I flew on quite a few with TWA as a kid in the 60s, JFK to Madrid and back. People used to dress u to travel. And if I was lucky I got to go in the cockpit during the flight and get TWA wing pins. Such great memories.
Laughing - 1:30 _"Our jets bounce and buck! A landing you won't soon forget."_ in the voiceover.
Yeah, I miss those days. I still have a deck of National Airlines playing cards from when I was a kid.
I wonder how a 707 would smell to our un-jaded noses. Non-smoking is the only thing that comes right to mind that's better today. It took me to the end of writing that sentence for "safety record" to nudge my ribs.
TWA called its turbofan-powered 707s "StarStream Jets."
Bring back this paint scheme!
American Airlines has a 737 painted in a similar heritage scheme. I have photos of it that I took a few years ago.
Yes, love the lightning bolt!
@@cityofabscissae It's awesome, saw on video recently.
Nice clear spoken english. Thank you. Wish it was still this way.
beautiful plane just like beautiful cars back then..
I can just feel that knobby nylon upholstery with the silver threads through it!
Very cool. I thoroughly enjoyed this film marking the birth of the turbofan engine.
Thank you for the memories! The 707 and that paint scheme still holds a very special place in my ❤️. I have fond memories of flying First Class many times over aboard American’s 707s ORD/LAX, SFO, SAN, LAS, PHX. And that nobbie fabric covering the seats felt really cozy too 😉
Very interesting look at this legendary at this airliner
How about a hand for the guy drawing the sketches. Clear, concise and very well done. Never seen it done like that (actually drawn while we watch) a neat technique and a talented artist.
That was awesome, better than ANY Powerpoint I've seen.
Seriously. I loved watching him draw
Until the combustion drawing, those spikes ruined the nice, smooth lines...!
I was amazed that GE built the first fans at the REAR of the engine! GE CJ805-3 and CJ805-23.
707 by far most attractive lines of any airliner
What a beautiful aircraft this 707 is! Thank you very much for the upload!
Thank you for sharing!
Aaaahh.. back when you didn't have to walk in your socks in the "security" area. And seats were made for humans.
Beautiful aircraft with a beautiful paint scheme. I came around too late to see this kind of stuff, but American should bring back the silver and orange
The 707 is probably the best looking airplane ever.
The glory days, back when most people couldn't afford to fly.
It kept some of the riff-raff away. Not all though, as money can't buy class or good manners!
People dressed up and behaved when they flew. LAX-JFK $100.00 coach with a nice meal served hot on a trey with usually 3 to choose from. I was TWA ticket agent in 1963. These fans were quieter with the air bypass. I lived next to LAX and could hear the difference. Good video here. Well done.
The best aircraft, ever!!!
So, why not bring it back?
American used the marketing name "707 Astrojet" for not only its improved 707s, but 720s as well, as was the case with the earlier "707 Jet Flagship" moniker. American's 720s did not have the HF antenna on top of the vertical fin like the 707s did (other 707/720 operators opted for this feature on both versions).
So interesting! I always wondered what that little point was on some of the tails of the 707. I always thought it looked so cool.. Now I know it was part of the tail extension added with the turbo fans! It's been hard to find information on this and I'm glad I came across this video 😁
Bouncing down the runway at 1’40”
They liked the first landing so much they did it again.
Interesting video, I've wondered when they began to figure out the benefits of the extra cool air cowling around the engine. To my eye, the look of passenger jets hasn't changed all that much since the early sixties except for the engines, they've gotten huge!
Its also just part of a turbofan engine. A pure jet would take far too much runway so at low speeds the intake turbine produces more thrust as essentially a propeller than the jet itself can. Once speed builds there is enough airflow that the jet starts to be efficient.
Geez that big puff of smoke out of the far left engine at 1:07.....!!
Looks like a mid flight compressor stall lol
The tubojets looked like they were burning coal...lol
Brilliant!
Boarding was usually from both the front and rear doors to speed the process. Not like todays push and shove contests with just front doors.
One of the best things about Delta's 757s is that they board from 2L. Not only do you enter the plane in a much more spacious area but you're not standing there waiting on the people in first class who are standing in the isle trying to reorganize everything they shoved in the overhead bin 5 times.
Early jet age was more dangerous but epic!✈🌐
The Boeing was very safe compared to the Comet
I recall the heavy black smoke from water injected engines in the early days of jet travel
Thanks
The "pilot" stated that they were at 32,000 feet and the temperature was five degrees below zero. Me thinks he left off a zero.
5 below or 50 below, it's all the same, damn cold outside. But inside nice and comfortable, perfect for a smoke and a martini. Was "Barry Allen" flying deadhead on the jumpseat in the cockpit on one of these flights?
Yeah I cocked up the OAT but the Gen public wouldn't know anyway 😂
Except in that era 32,000' wasn't a valid flight level! Above 29,000' aircraft were separated by 2,000', so they could have been at FL310 (Flight Level 310 - 31,000') or FL330 (33,000') - but not in level cruise at FL320!
God bless the 707
Douglas Aircraft offered $5.00 "Jet Rides" at the LA Airport to show the wonders of the new quiet planes. I am guessing 1961. The planes flew around Catalina and returned to LAX. Big circular couches in the back for comfort and good looks. Not sure about seat belts.
Seeing those puffs of smoke, I remember years ago at World FreeFall Convention a UH-1 (an old army helo restored to flying condition) flying jumpers would have occasional puff of smoke out the exhaust. I asked the pilot, from what I remember him saying years ago, was carbon buildup inside but then it would come off resulting in smoke. Perhaps someone clarify that. I wonder if passengers would notice or too far back out of view?
Pop was an AA navigator...and went into WW II Air Transport Command good company under Smith
My pop,was VP of PR in the 60s. Perhaps they knew one another. This was one of his films. Also check out his film on the DC-7! Brilliant
Landing on shorter runways is easier if you don't bounce, cap'n.
It's amusing that nobody at Boeing thought of adding more realistic flap detents for takeoff. That alone would have probably greatly improved climb performance...
Nice porpoise landing American
Yeah! That was nearly a four bouncer!!! :-P
It was almost a wheelbarrow landing.
He did it on porpoise
abundantYOUniverse Hehee!
Maybe he was a basketball player
Good video.
Back when flying was civilized.
Everything stunk to high heaven with cigarette smoke, it's great so much of the world is smoke-free now!!
Last week I had four flights, one airline, cheapest class, three American cities. It was civilized: the passengers, the crew, the airport employees on the ground. I do wish parts of the experience were more like the old days, but the fact is that most of reality is not what makes the latest two- or twenty-minute TV news story about how everything in the world is always terrible and forever getting worse.
flight 1 year 1962 perfection
Is that why they had to fish Pete Campbell's father and Linda McCartney's mother out of Jamaica Bay?
(and if he hadn't been delayed...Richard Nixon)
“... to bring you superior air flight...“
(bumpy landing in the background)
The 707 was the first jet I went in
It was about 1970 and for the first time the working class in Britain could travel outside the UK
We went to Spain and north Africa
This was years before the mass movement of the young, a time when white working class stood out
The 707 got us there and back even though I dropped my TomTom in the doorway
It let people who just could not afford to travel go places they had only seen on TV or in the army
I saw plenty of pillboxes while over there and so many people rubbing our clothes
My first taste of fresh still on the tree oranges and fanta
muito lindo.
"I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers."
Jimmy 2 times
"idlewild airport', nyc is referenced about 10 into the vid
They said in this video:- "No one will fly faster". That's not true. The General Dynamics Convair 880 was considerably faster.
American flew a version of the 880, the 990 Coronado (it was marketed as the "990 Astrojet"). Unlike the 880, which was powered by CJ805-3 turbojets, the 990 was powered by CJ805-23 turbofans (General Electric built both versions), with the fan aft-mounted compared to the 707's JT3D-1s with the fan forward-mounted.
@@johneddy908 I was flabbergasted to learn of the CJs with aft fans!
Will be amazing to see how jet engines evolve next, will they be powered by hydrogen or electric?
@@donaldstanfield8862 , many of today's jets are capable of flying on an advanced biofuel called Sustainable Aviation Fuel.
I like the drawing illustration done right there. I came to this excellent video looking for a scene inside the plane and I don’t think there are any. Did I miss that?
Wow they hot rodded the 707 to make it faster to get you there ahead of schedule and in comfort, fuel economy and environment was an afterthought. Not like today where every plane is built for super high efficiency and passengers are treated like cattle.
Weve deregulation (and ourselves) to thank. Sure, prices were astronomical back then, but ammenities were provided to incentivize travel.
Now its a constant race to the bottom and a constant pushing of the line of what passengers will tolerate in return for lower airfare.
Yeah, that's why the narrator talks about getting more power and speed from less fuel. And being actually *ahead* of schedule is not, on the whole, beneficial: it amounts to taking a schedule, ignoring it, and then having to sit around improvising and waiting-which may be why the script talks about "on-time reliability", not "ahead-of-time disruption".
Enjoyable vid,,,,Really enjoyable,,
Suppose we can conclude that AA was more technologically adept than PAA back in the day.
Quite enjoyed this short film.
Luc Gaudreault
Each airline had its own spin.
What a smoky planes we used to fly!
Great film, and quality, enjoyed thanks! Imagine if they could see and fly in a A350 back then?
They'd never believe the sidestick!!
or even the A380. same could be said about the 787 too. Amazing aircraft.
I like the smoke and noise of the turbojets over the cleaner, more fuel-efficient, and quieter turbofans... just sayin'.
JeffGR4 they are sexy
Until you live near an airport.
I love the sound of round re-cip engines, but flying on a plane powered by them is tooth-rattling.
Would love to hear the original turbojet engines
Loud!
Book me the next flight to California!
It's 3 NUMBERS...707= seven zero! seven.... no letters..
Sadly in 60 years speed-wise not much has changed ! Ticket prices have come down in dollars adjusted for inflation but at an enormous cost in service, comfort and overall passenger experience. Unfortunately that’s what happens when government subsidies go away in an industry with razor thin margins.
With government regulation the fatter margins you refer to were artificially set. While the roominess and pampered service may not be what it was in the 1960s, deregulation opened up the possibility of air travel to many more people. The free market has increased the safety, profits, and schedule capacities of the airlines. During that time, people simply "voted" for cheaper airfares, rather than roomy seats.
I remember when I was a kid almost no one I'd met had ever flown. It was something rich people did. We literally would drive across country on vacation.
Great service is available. Simply book a first class ticket or call net jets. What you’re saying is, you’d rather not pay for great service, you just want it anyway.
Interesting how P&W hadn't quite figured out to increase the bypass air ratio to 7-9 to 1 yet. You'd think technicians would've given this more thought and experimentation; we would have to wait until the 747 era. That said, we now have 737-800's in place of 707-120's today. However, these twin jets are not nearly as interesting to look at, though they are far more reliable and quieter (except the MAX until its MCAS issue is resolved).
That's a good question - it seems simple enough, but as with many things, the reality is more complicated than at first seems apparent.
It was the evolution of the technology - the core engines weren't mature enough at that point to drive a larger fan. The early high bypass engines were rather cantankerous - difficult to start on some occasions. Features like variable inlet guide vanes were relatively new, and not used in as many stages as on modern engines, and a number of other features which had to be developed to create higher power output engines (required to drive a larger fan) simply hadn't been invented yet.
So, if 737-800's much newer jets replaced 707-120's much more "ancient" past jets, which jets of today replaced the Boeing 707-320 B's& C's intercontinental versions which had greater capacity & power than the earlier Boeing 707-120's?
Veri gudi
Much faster then today's commercial jets.
I have never heard the 707 referred to as the "Astrojet".
Astrojet was American's branding, replaced in the '70s by LuxuryLiner.
@@gregsells8549 , the name "LuxuryLiner" was reserved for American's widebody fleet (747s, DC-10s and later 767s and 777s).
@@johneddy908 OK, the 707 became the LuxuryJet, as did the 727. This jogged my memory.
707 - 1957, 707-320B "Astrojet" - 1962
Can anyone explain the intermittent puffs of smoke from the engines in rhe very last scene of the plane cruising? It looks like a quick puff of fuel from each engine now and again. Why? What's going on to make that happen?
Is it water vapor that I'm mistaking for rich fuel?
Ah pratt and whitney
This film is from 1961.
When Boeing built aircraft and didn't kill people with Microsoft-like software failures
Built when 1 out of every 4 DeHavilland Comets built crashed.
Why they dont make double but smaller fan? I heard some engeneers where whining about to much speed of fan that need to fit to the engine, and ther there is no room under the plane wings. So here is the solution why they avoiding this?
How come today's planes aren't cruising over 600mph like the old 707's and DC8's?
Joseph Liptak The faster you go, the more drag that develops, and hence, more power is required to overcome it. It's called significant fuel economy at lower speed. Much like driving a car at 55 mph instead of say, 65.
Boeing's 787 Dreamliner flies a bit faster at cruising speed - that is why it takes just seventeen hours to fly between Perth, Australia and London, England on an example flown by Qantas on the "Kangaroo Route."
We do actually. I’m a pilot on the A320. Depending on how much headwind or tailwind you are getting, our ground speed can get over 600 mph.
@@BGCflyer i also heard that the A-380 can get close to700. T or F?
This is kinda bizarre. A film about the 707 where Boeing Is not mentioned.
Did you notice how Pan Am immediately dispatched another jet to retrieve the passengers? No buses no waiting for another flight or re-booking. A standby aircraft was ready as required. As I understand it you've uncle Ronnie and his billionaire aircraft pals with their private jets to thank for todays lousy air service.
No, you have cheap airfare to blame. When I was a kid the only time a family ever could afford to fly was when grandma died. Before deregulation most Americans had never flown in their life.
This is what they took from us
LOL JT3D's are still pretty ear splitting
I'd give anything to fly on a 707
Great to watch. Funny how after several decades Boeing A/C IE the B737 doesn't look much different inside or out(cockpit of the NG looks agricultural still!), Airbus have Boeing rattled these days:-)
walter riely
Rattled? Hardly!
No they don't, Boeing has the new Dreamliners, which I have been on and they are far superior!
It’s too bad that social media gives a way to complete fools to talk about aviation. My friend the 737 was designed back in the 60s...Boeing keeps the commonality between models so pilots don’t need to be retrained...also do you understand how expensive it is to flight test a completely new design? Just try to educate yourself before you open your pie hole!
"stove pipe"???
The whole world reeked of cigarette smoke back then, it was disgusting.
That landing was terrible.
Translation of the opening remarks, " blah, blah... blah blah blah.
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1:05 What was that