1959 UNITED AIRLINES PROMO FILM DEBUT OF DOUGLAS DC-8 “ OPERATION JETLINER “ DC-8 24834

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website 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,