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


Not many of these around and nothing today sounds like this.......:cool:.......turn up the speakers to 'L O U D' ........:bow

 

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

I Love watching the Inge and Claudia videos on here.



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


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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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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,

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 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!



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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  : )



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This is a good salute to them!



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



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



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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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