When was the last time you heard a Boeing 707 taxi and takeoff?

bjburnout · Uber Guru

When was the last time you heard a Boeing 707 taxi and takeoff?

cdnpont · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

That is a great channel. Thanks for the 707 link.

I Love watching the Inge and Claudia videos on here.

seventy2plus2 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

I never flew on a 707, but flew on a DC8 which was it's contemporary.

Leo2+2 · Guru

The 707 is my sentimental favorite jetliner of all time! The sound of its engines is music to the ears.

The last time I heard one was in the summer of 2000 when Jaro International (of Romania) used to fly to Montreal on a weekly basis. I have records of seeing their only remaining 707 since June 25, 1997.

My last flight on a 707 was in February 1991 on a domestic Victoria Falls - Bulawayo flights on Air Zimbabwe in First Class. I have great video & sound from take offs & landings on this flight.

My first flight on a 707 was in June 1974 on the Buenos Aires - New York JFK route on Aerolineas Argentinas which was also the first jet I ever flew on.

From the same family the Boeing 720 was used by Pratt & Whittney Canada as a testbed. It was stationed at YHX (St Hubert Airport south of Montreal) and I have seen it on numerous occasions until its retirement in 2010 when Pratt & Whittney replaced it by a 747SP.

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cdnpont · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

I flew on one to Scotland in 1968 when I was a boy of 7 years old. I still vaguely remember getting a pair of little plastic wings. All the kids got them back then.

It was a BOAC 707 Toronto International to Prestwick. Wish I knew the Tail number.

Here's one of unknown vintage at Prestwick,

66 Grande guy · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

In my opinion, its hard to beat these old girls for sound! These are the airplanes I used to control over fires when I first started as an Air Attack Officer in Alberta in the early 90's

The small airplane was the bird dog (control airplane) Cessna 310Q and the yellow and black beasts are Douglas A26's. They ran Pratt and Whitney R2800 18 cylinder radials (2800 cubic inches per engine)

Hot rods of the sky and these guys flew them like that!

Pontiacanada · A Poncho Legend!

Steve Miller - Big Ole Jet Airliner

pontorquer · Poncho Master!

Airframe mechanic Airforce boy here worked on Boeing 707 for 6 months (Private in training) in Trenton ON back in 1987, I got to go on joy rides many times from then till 1991, I even went to Baden Germany on one of these summer 1991 : )

66 Grande guy · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

This is a good salute to them!

bjburnout · Uber Guru

Great song - thanx for the memory...... smile

1965CS · Guru

Like George Kennedy (Patroni) says, "Take the wings off it and you can use it as a tank!"

see2xu · Addicted!

Got me thinking - we have seen KC-135s overhead ever since we moved here - Seymour Johnson AFB is ~200 kms SE of here - but none lately. But they've all been retrofitted with turbofans, so aren't anywhere NEAR as loud as those old Pratt fanjets that used to land over our childhood home in North Etobicoke (aka Wrecksdale, nowadays). North Stars, Viscounts, stretch DC-8s, and, loudest of all, the original AC L-1011s with the Rolls-Royce engines. I attribute my hearing loss to being outside, under the flight path to Malton, back in the day.

Of course, the rock concerts and car races MAY have also been a factor... ;)

Anyone else old enough to remember when then-Trans Canada Airlines flew these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynlAVeQd_MY

We used to sit on Derry Rd. on the north side of Malton and watch them land on Sunday mornings, with the old man. They came in low, and slow!

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bjburnout · Uber Guru

see2xu wrote:
Got me thinking - we have seen KC-135s overhead ever since we moved here - Seymour Johnson AFB is ~200 kms SE of here - but none lately. But they've all been retrofitted with turbofans, so aren't anywhere NEAR as loud as those old Pratt fanjets that used to land over our childhood home in North Etobicoke (aka Wrecksdale, nowadays). North Stars, Viscounts, stretch DC-8s, and, loudest of all, the original AC L-1011s with the Rolls-Royce engines. I attribute my hearing loss to being outside, under the flight path to Malton, back in the day.

Of course, the rock concerts and car races MAY have also been a factor... ;)
Anyone else old enough to remember when then-Trans Canada Airlines flew these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynlAVeQd_MY
We used to sit on Derry Rd. on the north side of Malton and watch them land on Sunday mornings, with the old man. They came in low, and slow!

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Yup old enough to remember all of the above and then some.

I worked at YYZ for 12 years in several capacities with 3 different airlines and had a (jet) blast doing so.

Do you remember the BAC 111 (similar to a DC-9) flown by Mohawk and American Airlines during late 60s

and early 70s? To me the loudest on the property while idling and taxiing and would rattle the windows on takeoff.

They were equipped with Rolls-Royce Spey engines.

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

This is another good channel. Watch the planes takeoff and land at LAX live

CdnGMfan · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

I've probably flown once in a 707 many years ago. Nowadays it seems to be Airbus.

Out in the Rouge area of eastern Toronto I can witness jets flying from Pearson at a lower cruise altitude. Late at night they throttle back over the city and they are almost whisper-quiet now.

I remember back in 1969 at Toronto International Airport there was an outdoor observation area to watch departures. Today that would be considered a security risk and you wouldn't see it. We watched as our parents flew off to Europe while we had several weeks with a baby-sitter.

A bunch of years back I heard the clatter of a radial engined plane overhead, so I looked up and saw a vintage Dakota from probably the 1940s. Dad worked for fun at the Warplane Heritage Museum, so he knew about the vintage planes that were around. He told me that several times a week that very Dakota flew bumpers out of Michigan to Oshawa Airport for a delivery to GM. I haven't heard it in over 10 years now, but that old bird was doing service as a 70 year old.