PAN AM CLIPPER NEW HORIZONS 1977 ROUND THE WORLD FLIGHT 34544
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The 50th anniversary of Pan American Airlines (Pan Am) and a record-setting flight are celebrated in this 1977 film. The film opens with a narration of man’s desire to explore the globe - first by sea and later by air - most notably Wiley Post (mark 00:45) who was the first pilot to fly solo around the world in his Lockheed Vega aircraft, the Winnie Mae, in 1933. In 1947 the first around-the world passenger service was inaugurated in a Lockheed Constellation made for Pan Am. At mark 01:13 we see a Boeing 747SP-21 named Clipper Liberty Bell, which broke the commercial around-the-world record. Then, in 1977, we learn how Pan American Clipper New Horizons departing on a record-setting flight around the world over both poles (mark 02:13). It’s that flight that is the basis of the film as move to celebratory scenes at San Francisco International Airport on October 28, 1977, as “Flight 50” prepares for its 26,000 mile journey. With passengers onboard, the Clipper New Horizons taxis down the runway (mark 05:10) and takes ff exactly 50 years after Pan Ams first flight. The camera walks the cabin as the narrator explains the great demand for tickets and the company’s marketing director details the planning that went into the flight. The trip included an onboard fashion show (mark 07:23) and champagne toast as the aircraft circles the North Pole. The flight is welcomed in London (mark 08:56) and following a ceremony sets off for Capetown, South Africa as passengers are shown playing game, writing postcards, reading, watching movies (including “Casablanca” and “Road to Morocco”), and dining. A huge crowd welcomes passengers after their arrival in Capetown (mark 13:00) and following a ceremony with the city’s mayor the aircraft is back in the air. It crosses the South Pole as the camera captures snow-covered Antarctica below (mark 14:50). Despite rain in Auckland, New Zealand (mark 16:00) the passengers receive another warm welcome including traditional greetings and entertainment before embarking on the journey’s final leg. Passengers share their thoughts with the camera before finally touching down in San Francisco at mark 20:00.
In 1976, the same aircraft seen in this film, made a similar around-the-world flight under the command of Captain Walter H. Mullikan, the airline’s chief pilot. That flight set a new speed record for a flight around the world, eastbound, and three speed records for commercial airline routes. The flight shown in the film used the same 747SP on the circumnavigation, but this time it was crossed both the North and South Poles. Renamed Clipper New Horizons, 21025 set a record on that flight as well, with a total flight time of 54 hours, 7 minutes, 12 seconds.
Pan American sold its fleet of Boeing 747SPs to United Airlines in 1986. 21025 was re-registered N143UA to reflect its new ownership. After twenty years, 21025 was removed from service in 1995 and placed in storage at Ardmore, Oklahoma. It was scrapped in 1997. The airliner had accumulated 78,941 total flight hours on its airframe (TTAF) with 10,733 cycles.
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Great video! Those were the last days of the Golden Age of civil aviation. They are long gone now. May they rest in peace.
Great video. Pan Am was the true aviation pioneer.
N533PA was broken up after serving with United for plenty of years in JAN95.... Sad that they didn't preserve it somewhere
Thank you so much for posting this fantastic video! Boy has the comfort portion of air travel gone downhill! Now we're packed in like sardines just trying to get from point A to point B. With no thought being given to the travel portion being enjoyed.
Loved IT. Thank you. Are all of us here serious PanAm nerds?🤗
Great video brings memories and tears.. Best job ever working for Pan Am..
This is for all air travel lovers out there..There were three significant commercial around-the-world record-setting flights flown by 747SP: two operated by Pan Am and the other operated by United Airlines with the aircraft being "loaned" to Friendship Foundation, in order to raise money for the foundation. Those flights are: Liberty Bell Express[5]-Flown from New York/JFK May 1-3, 1976. 2 stopovers at Palam Airport, New Delhi and Tokyo-Haneda Airport. The round-the-world flight took 46 hours and 26 minutes over 23,137 miles.[5] Pan Am Flight 50-to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pan Am. Flown October 28-30, 1977 from San Francisco, with a time duration of 54 hours, 7 minutes, 12 seconds. 3 stopovers at Heathrow Airport, Cape Town and Auckland. Flight 50 flew over both the North Pole and the South Pole. Friendship One[5]-Flown January 29-31, 1988 from Seattle, to raise funds for Friendship Foundation. Two stopovers were made, at Athens and Taipei. The record lasted less than a month, as it was beaten by a Gulfstream IV. The round-the-world flight took 35 hours and 54 minutes over 23,125 miles.[5] In 1976 a Boeing 747SP (ZS-SPA) of South African Airways was flown non-stop from the Boeing Company factory in Seattle to Cape Town during its delivery flight. This was a world record for an un-refueled commercial aircraft, this record was held for over a decade.
18:26 crazy to think you are looking at a guy born in 1895
was a great source of comfort when the non-smoking sign went off -- and everyone would light up and relax !!!!
It would be interesting to track down Sharon Walker, 11 years old, who was a passenger and interviewed on the flight and ask her about her recollection and thoughts now.
@FLATSWISS
5 жыл бұрын
fireflyrobert , You will have a much better chance if you try to track down a Sharon Walter as that is the name she gave. Oh and by the way this flight was not a true North South circumnavigation of our Earth. That cannot be done as the Truth about our Earth has been hidden from us for the past 500 Years. Earth is a Static Geocentric Plane not a Pear Shaped Oblate Spheroid Tilted Wobbling And Spinning In Space.. testingtheglobe.com
@sharonwalter5493
4 жыл бұрын
Hi FireFlyRobert! Can you believe some 40+ years after this flight we were cleaning up the basement and my husband found some memorabilia from this record-breaking flight that I took with my father in 1977. My husband went online to search for more details and discovered this video which I had never seen before! I still remember many details from our trip, including the faces of the passengers who were kind enough to entertain me during our journey, the warm reception we got in Auckland and CapeTown, and the Halloween costume party with the captain and crew. I earned my private pilot's license when I turned 16, but I didn't make a career out of flying. My older sister, who missed out on the Pan Am trip, is a captain flying 747s internationally for UPS. Cheers! Sharon
@marcmywords6970
19 күн бұрын
I was thinking the same thing too!
@marcmywords6970
19 күн бұрын
OMG!! She actually saw it and replied fascinating🎉🎉😊
@fireflyrobert
19 күн бұрын
@@sharonwalter5493 fantastic!
Me and my mother did the around the world flight ✈️ in 1976 on the liberty flight ✈️ I wish we could have flown in 1977 they flew the other way
#FirstCustomers For #Boeing747 In The Worlds!!!
You have another version of this on KZread published on May 22, 2013. It looks like you've cleaned up the transfer on this one. Colors are more saturated. Audio is a little cleaner, too. Getting ready for the 40th anniversary...
@PeriscopeFilm
7 жыл бұрын
Yes we recently re-transferred this to 4K resolution on our new scanner...
Record setting flights a Boeing 747-SP named Clipper Liberty Bell, broke the commercial round-the-world record set by a Flying Tiger Line. Boeing 707 with a new record of 46 hours, 50 seconds. The flight left New York-JFK on May 1, 1976, and returned on May 3. The flight stopped only in New Delhi and Tokyo, where a strike among the airport workers delayed it two hours. The flight beat the Flying Tiger Line's record by 16 hours 24 minutes.[155] Then in 1977 to commemorate its 50th birthday, Pan Am organized Flight 50, a round-the-world flight from San Francisco to San Francisco, this time over the North Pole and the South Pole with stops in London Heathrow, Cape Town Airport and Auckland Airport. 747SP-21 Clipper New Horizons was the former Liberty Bell, making the plane the only one to go around the globe over the Equator and the poles. The flight made it in 54 hours, 7 minutes, and 12 seconds, creating seven new world records certified by the FAI. Captain Walter H. Mullikin, who commanded this flight, also commanded the Liberty Bell Express! One Captain did the flight twice, each a different route and with the same plane, it was just renamed. To
If getting on an airplane was the best someone could come up with for entertainment back in the 70’s I’m sure I didn’t live back then goddamn it 😂🤣🙄😒😑..................
And yet- Pan Am was out of business by 1991.
I wonder how much those tickets cost?
@jakeianmartinez9902
7 жыл бұрын
3x more expensive as they are today
@camachinist
6 жыл бұрын
According to a Chicago Tribune article at the time, $3,333 for first class and $2,222 for economy. However, the 747SP was configured 8 across in Clipper Class so I think that's what 'economy' was, on that flight anyway. We bought a new Chevy around that time for 4,000 so that gives an idea of price.
11:52 - Polaroid camera :-)
Nice dodo airlines ad
@user-e-idk
Жыл бұрын
LOL
If they did not fly across Antarctica it is not a north/south circumnavigation, by its very definition. Still, the 70’s were great, it’s all been downhill since, and getting more ridiculous daily.
@marcmywords6970
19 күн бұрын
Polar circumnavigation is complete navigation around Earth through both the North Pole and the South Pole.. and is recognized worldwide not sure why people want to cherry-pick this point, they're both recognized routes of travel. just like there's more than one route to get to any destination.
1:34 into this video shows the route they flew ...by no means did they fly around the world
@FLATSWISS
5 жыл бұрын
Joe Conrad , Hello Brother Joe, are you a closet Flat Earther? If so it is safe to come out now. I am still waiting for a True North to South circumnavigation of this supposed Pear Shaped Oblate Spheroid Tilted Wobbling And Spinning In Space. Lots of Luck seeing that. Earth is clearly a Static Geocentric Plane. Try going straight through Antarctica and exit on the other side. It won’t happen you will either die because it is infinite or you will come to the Firmament if it exists. Peace on the Plane Brother
@joeconrad9147
5 жыл бұрын
@@FLATSWISS no im full blown it aint a spinning ball
@joeconrad9147
5 жыл бұрын
@@FLATSWISS why would you say that? You wont find any north south circumnavigation
@shadowmax889
5 жыл бұрын
hahahahahahahahahahah, this is a true North South pole nav. You always moving your goal post. Typical flat earther
@ascotberks2018
5 жыл бұрын
Oh Joe, how sad for you that you are so stupid. Your parents, family and teachers were so disappointed in you inability to think for yourself.
Interesting there was an African American Miss Universe traveling to apartheid era SA. She handled it well it looks like.