The Wonderful Jet World of Pan American (1959)
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- Pan Am inaugurated the first scheduled passenger jet flight on Oct 26, 1958 from New York to Paris.
Courtesy: Prelinger Archives
Producer: Coleman Productions (New York City)
Sponsor: Pan American World Airways
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PanAm Clipper N710PA bit.ly/1nBejsZ
Script: Millard Lampell.
Editing: William T. Moeller.
Music: Filmsounds, Inc.
Directed by Sherman Price.
Produced by Harry L. Coleman. #AIRBOYD #AvGeek
My father Captain Harvey Beebe Jr flew for Pan Am for 32 years of meritorious service retiring in 1987. He was an aviation pioneer and trailblazer. He started on the DC-7'S and moved on to the B707 and finished on the B747 from which he retired as a captain in 1987. He flew all versions of the 747 up to and including the 400 series which just came in as he was retiring. Neither professionally nor privately did he ever put a scratch on himself an airplane or anyone he transported for 58 years overall and 55000 flight hours. The world will never see another one like him.
Never met your father but did hear of him. Got to fly for Pan Am just towards the end. It sure was a great airline and there will never be one like it.
That is amazing I always wanted to be a pilot but your dad had a long and wonderful career kudos to him 👍
I was a flight attendant for Pan Am in 1986 until they closed down in December 4 1991 it was the best airline ever to work for after they closed I went over to work for American Airlines I recently retired after 37 years I loved my job so much
The Captain leaves his car unlocked and the driver’s side window open before leaving for a flight from JFK/Idlewild to Paris...
Great film of a golden age of aviation!
Pan American is the airline of the human kind.
Thanks Juan Terry Trippe and all the working class that made this come true.
And also thanks for sharing this touching documentary.
ENJOY THE TIME YOU ARE LIVING TO THE MAX, THEY WILL NEVER COME BACK THE SAME WAY
One of the aircraft shown in this film (N709PA, Clipper Tradewind) left San Juan, PR on Dec 8 1963 on its way to Philly. After a stop at Baltimore, it was hit in-flight by lighting, destroyed by ignited vapors in empty fuel tank, all souls lost. Clipper 214, may you rest in peace.
Wow.
Did you know how many were on board this Pan Am flight?
All died. 81 including crew, according the the wikipedia page for Pan Am Flight 214.
I read about this tragedy in Jay Nash' s " Darkest Hours" all the disasters in the world. From the beginning of time till 1976. There was a picture of the plane falling from the sky after being hit by lightning. The jet fuel was super volatile.
At least they were well dressed for their one way flight to the pearly gates. :'(
I remember when flying on the 707 (BOAC/PAN AM/TWA), the food was no different than sitting in a restaurant. People dressed to fly and not look like someone is returning home from the beach.
Oh, them good ol’ days. When flying still was glamorous and full of sophistication. I remember clearly traveling in high heels, hat and handkerchiefs.
Captain Don drives a Karman-Ghia. Classy.
Didn't close the window nor lock the door. Today, that car would be stolen, stripped for parts and trashed..............the new 3rd World America................
This video was a taste of Home! New York City, outside Idlewild Airport I lived for years, my brother Ken worked at the maintenance hanger till Pan Am's demised, 1958 he started in Pan Am. I sure Pan Am!
My grandfather Sal worked at Idlewild then JFK until the end of Pan Am as well, I wonder if they knew each other!
As a little boy in the 1960ies, we flew all over. I was a member of the Pan Am Clipper club. We had a book that the crew and captain filled out on each trip. We also received pins for our jackets. Part of the club was that we got to visit the air crew in the cockpit. Those were the days. Then in the early seventies, the Jumbo jet's came to be. I remember flying to CA from DC in an empty wide body. I took an entire row in the middle and went to sleep! Today, Good Luck, I feel like a sardine squeezed into a rusty can.
N709PA in this video was the Pan Am 707 that crashed 4 years later after being struck by lightning, killing all aboard.
Captain can’t wait to get to his other family in France.
Great airline. Gone but not forgotten.
This aircraft N711PA served PanAm very well. Later, having been modified and sold to Air Asia, after 26 years of service in August 1984 Clipper America was scrapped. 26 years in service for the first commercial 707 proves what a great plane it was.
Wow 26 years in service that's amazing
Back when America was a Strong, Proud, Determined Workforce. pretty much everyone had a Job. and lived up to it. took pride in contributing to the greater good and fullfillment of this 'once great nation. what a shell of it's former self.
drummerfella 55 So agree! Soon though 45 and his cronies will be gone and we can get back on track! Go America!
😂
and men and WOMEN knew their role in life.
Feel free to build a time machine to go back in time
@@johnfarr2738 ikr? woulfdnt take a time machine just take a miracle
The era of air travel being an enjoyable experience has come and gone for the vast majority of us. Checking in at the airport is only slightly less excruciating than going to the Department of Motor Vehicles.
actually, the vast majority never got into an airplane - deregulation destroyed price fixing by the government and no competition. Same as what globalization is doing to the manufacturing of everything.
CHRIS!! well said and VERY TRUE!!
Heck going to the DMV is actually very quick and enjoyable today. You just grab a ticket and wait until they call you.
I still think it's a blast to fly.
Chris Nizer I mean Emirates is pretty much like pan am
real early model of the 707, organ pipes forever!
Just a small correction to the description. Pan Am's first jet service flight, PA 114 departed New York's Idlewild field and landed at Paris Le Bourget field, not Charles de Gaulle. CDG did not open until 1974.
Actually, Pan Am jet flights were handled at Orly (ORY).
The Laundry & the Supermarket. How cute.
Different times for sure, my friend! 😃
Those were the days....................
Ahead of it's time . . . Pan Am Transformer Airliner . . . Left Idlewild as a Boeing 707-321B Clipper America and landed in France as a Douglas DC-8-32 N801PA Clipper Queen of the Pacific
Because the DC-8 32 could be flight nonstop to Paris, and the B707-120 not
"Idlewild ground control". The references really capture the era. That and everyone lighting up a cigarette.
Notice how corporations provided in-house training and education, everyone has an opportunity to move up if they chose to work hard and get trained on the job.
Honestly, who's the person who didn't like this short documentary?
GRL Don't know, but I would not be surprised if it was someone who objected to all that smoking.
It was a TWA pilot. 😎
It was the passenger recently who was NOT served caviar and lobster for lunch. The one who had fought for three hours in the security queue. Who was held in another queue awaiting clearance to get to the runway. They felt just a bit cheated.
Beautiful aircraft the B707. As a kid with a father being an airline pilot I had the luck to be in the jump seat on B707s numerous times with his collegues. Also classic B737-200 and the B727 with my father at the controls.
Later in life I had the luck to actually be a pilot on B727 (all versions). Now stuck on A320 / A330 its a whole different world. Wish I could go back in time.
Being a pilot one should have been born 30 yrs earlier. 👍 At least I got to fly the 727 before being forced on to newer types.
That is so awesome
This is future that many countries just have in dreams .
It's 2023, 64 years since this film was made. We still fly on jets. Some advancements in flight, to be sure, nothing like the 64-year leap from 1895 to 1959. Someone living in 1895 could not have imagined what Pan Am is showing as the travel experience in 1959. But someone from 1959 wouldn't find the travel experience in 2023 all that unimaginable. Perhaps they would have thought by 2023 we'd be making regular "flights" to a moon base or Mars base. Instead, we got a flight experience downgrade: overbooked flights, tiny seats, passengers in pajamas, and heavy security lines.
Everyone is neat and clean, even the smokers.
It really seemed like people thought the plane wouldn’t possibly go down, there was no fear of flying, just smooth, relaxed people trusting there pilots and crew, good ol days
Has anyone else noticed the high altitude jet contrails often seen in old western movies ?? It's hilarious to see John Wayne & others on horseback with these trails clearly visible in the sky. ...Guess they think movie watchers are stupid.
The Douglas DC-8 was also featured in this film.
what an Irony it's been 70 years and travel time is still almost same.BTW thanks for this time capsule!
Everyone smokes. Mechanics, pilots, engines, ...
..."the Blond 12 year old Daughter'..... Everyone.
Some things were better. Some things were worse. I remember huge communal ashtrays in hospitals. They were disgusting. I often wondered why such a filthy habit was encouraged so much in the past. I used to think why that filth was allowed in public but urinating in public was not. They are both just as disgusting. Actually urinating in public would not be so stinky as smoking. Oh well, at least that aspect of things got better. The cars got uglier, more cramped, weaker, and flimsier, though.
*cough* *cough* *cough*
Yes, and they looked cool doing it
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18:54 captian over looking for Mr Dun
Wow second hand smoke on a jet. The good ol days!
Great days great flights And The anti-smokers had to suck it up! Ha ha!
An innocent time.
Ha ha! @ 21:30: "outside, in the clear blue stratosphere...it's 60 degree's below Zero.... (then seeing the Dad and everyone else, "light up' when the No Smoking light is extinguished) ..."But here in the cabin...it's like an old roadhouse blues bar... Lol!.... i found that visual, too funny!
SMOKING ON THAT TIME WAS SOMETHING VERY USUAL ON ALMOST ANYONE, OF COURSE THEY DID NOT KNOW THE SIDE EFFECT OF SMOKING ON THAT TIME
The inaugural PA flight on 26 Oct 1958 operated from IDL to LBG [Le Bourget]; CDG had yet to be built.
Ha! The wife is busy with laundry or the supermarket. Times have changed.
good old days when u could light up and enjoy !!!!
I remember having to go up the stairs into the plane.
Yeah, this film pre-dates jetways, where passengers had to walk out of the terminal onto the tarmac, and walk up the steps to the plane's doorway. I love to watch some of these boarding scenes in pre-1960 films. No matter how many times I watch "All About Eve" (1950), I view the scene where Margo is bidding adieu to her lover, Bill, at the airport (ostensibly Idlewild, but, more likely Burbank) with something akin to nostalgia. Yes, the one-story terminal has the prefab look of military ATC structures, and the low-ceilinged corridor is cramped and poorly-lit. But the scene makes me long for the time when travelers had only a very short distance to walk to the embarkation point, were uninhibited by security personnel/ checkpoints, and could be accompanied by loved ones with whom they could share lengthy farewells before leaving to board their plane, a mere dozen yards away.
There are some great videos on CZcams, shot at civilian airports from 1950 to mid-1960s, that show the one-story terminals and ground boarding of facilities that had served for decades as municipal airports (NYC's LaGuardia, Washington National, Chicago Midway, LA's Grand Central and Burbank). CZcams's thekinolibrary, in particular, has fascinating color films of mid-century Idlewild's air traffic. Many of the newer airports (Idlewild, Dulles, O'Hare, LAX) had been built in areas farther from the city centers in order to accommodate the larger buildings and significantly longer runways that would be necessary in the coming age of jet travel. But in the early & mid-1950s, most continued to utilize formats similar to those of the muni airports, finding them adequate for the air traffic of that era.
Yep! Walking out onto the tarmac with my family at Singapore's Changi airport to board our Qantas 707 home to Sydney in 1973 and again in 1974. Great times!
That still happens sometimes today
КРАСИВАЯ ЛИВРИЯ,ПАН АМ. КАК И АЭРОЛОТ СССР. ПАН АМЕРИКАН , ЗАБРАЛ СОБОЙ АЭРОФЛОТ И СССР НА НЕБЕСА В НЕБЫТЬЕ, НАВСЕГДА .ПРОЩАЙ АЭРОФЛОТ ПАН АМЕРИКАН, НАВСЕГДА.
These babies used to take off from PHL at night, making my house, 5 miles away, shake. When we visited friends in Camden, across the river, the ear-splitting roar every five minutes was terrible!
Commercial Jets actually went faster in the 50s and 60s than now with average speed of 600. Today is 550. We are far more concerned about fuel costs now then in the 60s.
Nice.
Still very nice...
When the flight attendant were beautiful and nice....
Boeing 707-120: I can't to flight nonstop to Paris 😢
DC-8-32: So, time to go to work 😎
Yes, Le Bourget ... with a technical stop at Gander, Newfoundland.
They've had their problems recently but back then Boeing was badass. Pan Am & Boeing created modern commercial air transport.
in 1959 the world was fascinating..today its highrises,McDonalds,shopping malls and the same things you can buy in Bangkok as in Frankfurt or San Diego...
all whites!
1:42 the sky is our element now. Up here is where Man controls the clock and the calendar.
It was still kinda like that in 1981 when I flew Pan American from LAX to London-then to Berlin / Tegel (West Berlin). I wore nice clothes and behaved myself ( I was 16) Food was good and the flight crew was very cool. I miss those days! Affordable?, my ASS. Tickets were very expensive! That ticket cost my Mom $895.00! I worked as a busboy on weekends to chip in and had only $200.00 to spend for the whole summer, so I had be careful with my money and yet I felt privileged and rich to be there and appreciated every moment knowing most American kids would not experience what I did back then. Now people fly wearing crappy clothes with flip-flops, worn out, dirty backpacks expecting everything for nothing...flying cheapie airlines like WOW and Ryanair. SAD!!
If you think of how much was paid for your ticket maybe you wouldn't miss them so much...
Dan Mackey - The best life is when you can live, work and play in a place where you don't have to fly away from.
600 gallons per MINUTE! That’s crazy
That would probably just be for take-off roll.
@@eastbaykidd8574 yeah it's about half of that during cruise but still that's a lot of fuel!
That same year I was born in 1959
I flew on the next one. N710PA. On my way to Turkey with my parents
Ahhhhhh good old days. Were every seat was first class seat
PanAm bought the best equipment with ALL THE BELLS AND WHISTLES for the cockpit.
and treated the cockpit crew and first-class passengers like kings and queens/royalty (= 10% of cabin space).
Economy passengers (= 90% of cabin space) were truly treated as steerage/steers/CATTLE.
Then, Eddy Tripp/management of PanAm could not figure out who was paying the bills (simple math).
Other carriers such as American Airlines, Singapore Airlines, and many other carriers
respected and appreciated economy passengers,,,,
guess who is still in business?
Sweet kansas girl 10 years young.. now 50....
Following the greatest mess since 1945, fuel and airplanes should be cheap for quite a while...if I were loaded, I would meet with other loaded people and plan revive the name of Pan Am... it would sound so nice to my ears listening again this airline’s name announcements in airports throughout the planet...
7:19 John Belushi in a role that will surprise you...
WHOOPSIE!! They have a B-52 there in their film making contrails, not a Pan Am jet. See the engines and the fuel tank?? Look closely!!
Captain Michaels was so busy..I think he forgot to roll up his car windows.. Oh I just noticed someone else commented on that too.
Captain Michaels learned French while he was in Vietnam he married a African American lady from Senegal Africa he also had a family in Anaheim California he kept this charade up for many years it wasn't till at his funeral that both families realized they were married to the same man the resulting was a famous lawsuit Pan Am vs captain Michaels 1968
Seriously?
This boeing 707 inside looked like Airplane! Move the inside
Wow. You found it.
I hope that the pilot did not forget to roll his car window up.
Its so funny the things they say, you can hardly notice the take off....what! those 707s roared even on the inside.
Can someone tell me the kind of car the captain is driving please.
6:50 39 years old? That’s a hard 39.
Hell, that’s a hard 59.
Welcome to the world of Pan Am. It's not like our planes will be bombed! We have TOTALLY LEGIT maximum security. Alright, Flight 103 is boarding. XD sad but true
I love how they mention Pizarro as an example of a "great explorer" from the past... since, he basically slaughtered the Inca... But, hey, it was 1959! :)
Well you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette.
Oh, my, jerjer b, your post takes me back to the days when we could wallow happily in our ignorance, our consciences soothed by the imprimatur of school book publishers and our political leaders. Nowadays, you gotta move to Texas for that rarified atmosphere.
The pilot is flying to Paris and left the window down in his car. Try that today....
what the hell happened to this world? airlines charging money for passengers to use the toilet in mid flight!!!!
Which one? Southwest doesn't.
It's hard to fit on the toilet for large people!
Neither does Delta
THE CAPTAIN DID NOT UP HIS"S CAR WINDOW!
Ha! I noticed that too.
prayerpatroller And he forgot to carry a suitcase, especially considering that the following morning he would be checking in at a hotel off Champs Elysées in Paris...
No thiefs lol,
I'm a lucky one to have flown PanAm back when US airlines were decent. Dare I say I'm ashamed now?
Enjoy your bag of crumbs they call 'deluxe snack mix'
This makes me want to visit the Ottoman Empire!
One day technology will bring us the age of the supersonic. And in the future just imagine how much more legroom in the future jets.
We've already been there. Concorde? But politics and economics combined to kill that one off.
Dig the shot at 17:45 of this clip and all the room between seats (what the aviation industry calls "pitch").
And that was in coach!
Today, f;lying---even first class---is like being a human sardine!
altfactor only in Europe lol
cant have been that quiet on board. And the music...lol,settle champ.
Hope it did not rain in Captain Michaels' car window when he was in Paris!
Back when people dressed up when flying. I fly 3-6 times per year, but every time I still dress respectably. Crazy how many people dress in sweats and flip-flops on airplanes.
Don’t forget the masks 😷! Don’t wear one, you get hauled off by security while the other passengers clap.🤦♀️😷
I do, too, actually…My first overseas trip in ‘88 was to London on my honeymoon..I was dressed up like a dog’s dinner, corsage and all! It was a BIG DEAL!!
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@@immaggiethesenilegoldenret7918 2021 was the first year since I was 16 in 2005 that I didn’t fly at all. Our last round trip was September 2020 and they were pretty ridiculous with the masking requirements for my then 3-year-old daughter.
For 2021 we chose two road trips for vacations versus flying. West Virginia/South Carolina for one trip, South Dakota for the other (we live near Chicago). I’m not a fan of the masks either.
actually one person does they are called geniuses that's why payrolls are not all equal.
Ah yes, but the genius who realized that the corvair would kill people without a hanger strap was not well paid. The executives who decided not to spend the 50 cents were. Just as the executives who cut 2 out of the 3 rows of lifeboats on the titanic were also highly paid. Payrolls are not equal but the pay doesn't go to those who keep the industries functioning. Hence the degradation of our society.
People are so well dressed then. Wish it were so nowadays.
If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going
I don't care about you either. You don't hear me complaining
Steve Jones When you complain on the internet everyone hears you.
Well, Pan Am's 707s were largely replaced by Airbus A300s and A310s, so...
Steve Jones I couldn't agree more. Boeing makes the BEST Aircraft and has since WW2 (B17, B29 to name a couple). In the 80's and 90's I flew a lot on Business and you seldom get to pick your plane type but I always felt safest in a little 737 and later in the 737NG. Now that my flying days are pretty much behind me my 36 year old Son flies back and forth to Paris and Seoul Korea a few times a year. I always am glad when he takes a 777 or even the old 747 because I love my boy more than I love myself and I trust Boeing more than any other Aircraft Company. (btw; I've worked in the Aerospace Industry for more than three decades).
German aircraft and cars were pretty good too. Boeing got it's cash from government contracts as all U.S. aircraft did -what a wonderful thing Pearl Harbor and the English -they spoke English - that helps.
Oooohhh, alas I was born too late.
Wait...
was this the same plane that never came back....
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a time machine!
The one thing I desire more than being rich is a time machine
Pesawat pan american jatuh di indonesia tanggal 4 December 2019
From Indonesiaku
1974 saya masih kecil, di Bali, nabrak bukit. adst.org/2015/04/there-were-no-full-bodies-the-crash-of-pan-am-flight-812-in-bali/
Tahun berapa terakhir ada maskapai penerbangan Amerika yang singgah di Ratna Nusantara
"At 600 mph" he said. But not in today's fuel economy eviorment.
1959 the Great Atlantic Plunge.. SHHHH dont remind anyone
World in 50s...Everyone smoking!🤪 is a cigarrette advert?
Thanks- a very interesting advertisment of Pan Am. Take this with the smoking Captain and the passengers in the year 2014! In the News of Germany I`ve heard, that every 7 Minuts a Person died, who`s smoking. Statistics.
Obviously the NO SMOKING policy did not apply in the workplace at that point in time. Many of the employees would eventually succumb to lung cancer.
"New York Idlewild to Paris Charles de Gaulle"?! Don't you mean "Paris Orly'? Or do you plan to set down in the lap of Monsieur le President? :^)
passenger and crew look as a little worry! ancient times
Captain Nicotine should see a dentist and quit smoking.
It doesn't seem profitable even back then, considering how cheap things were.
如果近地球上面，已经没有叫泛美这家航空公司了
Hah 1959 fly can smoking