Archive Watch

United Airlines Promo Film Debut of Douglas Dc-8 " Operation Jetliner " Dc-8 24834 (1959)

1959 · Short film · 16 min

Watch now On the Internet Archive

Synopsis

This color educational film, which also can be viewed as a promotional film for United Airlines, is about the new Douglas DC-8 jetliner and its debut with United Airlines. United's first-ever jet service took place on September 18th, 1959 when the DC-8 performed a transcontinental flight between San Francisco International Airport and New York's Idlewild. Copyright is circa 1959. The aircraft shown in the film, tail number N8016U, flew with United from 1959 to 1966. Opening title: Paul Hoefler Productions presents "Operation Jetliner", with assistance from United Airlines (:15). Birds fly in the sky (:58). Painting of Icarus (1:15). Leonardo da Vinci (1:30). Hot air balloons (1:53). December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright took turns piloting and monitoring their flying machine in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina (2:12). 1909, Louis Bleriot, a French engineer, was the first to fly across the English Channel, 21 miles from Calais in France to Dover, England (2:27). Plane in the sky (2:40). United Airlines DC-6 with propeller engines (2:57). A drill goes into wood (3:10). United Airlines DC-8 (3:18). Animation of how a jet engine works (3:37). A man uses a pencil to point at a model of a United Airlines DC-8 (4:21). Demonstration of how air helps lift a plane into flight (4:39). Aerodynamic study animation (4:57). How air helps lift a plane’s wing (5:12). How a plane is steered, a man points to a plane model’s tail section with a pencil; a real DC-8 plane tail is shown…

Uploader's description on archive.org

Details

Running time
16 minutes
Collection
Ephemeral Films

Subjects on the Internet Archive

More like this