These days , plane safety videos are fill up with jokes , hidden cameo , and standardized techniques to encourage passengers to pay care . A few decades ago ? Not so much . In the good old 24-hour interval , plane safety videos were so quiet and solace that they could put a distinctive passenger to sleep … and that was okay , ply he or she was n’t currently smoke .
Here are some of the best retro airplane safety equipment videos around . Please procure your own atomic number 8 masquerade before attend others ; you may ask supplemental oxygen to get through all of these .
1. Pan Am Airbus A300, 1998
Here ’s a video froma defunct airline , fora woodworking plane that is no longer produced , though many are still in service . Things to watch for : smooth soundtrack ; smoke on the flight ( include when the oxygen mask deploy ! ) ; and moustache galore .
See also : If You Ca n’t fume On Planes , Why Are There Still Ashtrays ?
2. TWA Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, Circa 1980
learn for : The smoke division , jumping out onto the inflatable slide tidy sum , and " A fragile burning olfactory property may be detected while oxygen is in usance . This is normal . " secure to know . Note : This video does n’t number with a date ; it ’s possible that it was record as early as the 1970s ( the L-1011 dates from 1972 ) , but my best guess set it somewhere around 1980 .
3. Hawaiian Airlines DC-10, Circa 1998
Another dateless telecasting , but I ’m guessing late 1990s based on the portable CD player , laptop , and Motorola cell telephone set . Another telltale augury : tough 3D animation .
4. Finnair MD-11, Circa 2000
This is what it would look like if David Lynch directed an airplane safety television .
5. Lufthansa Airbus A300, Circa Mid 1980s
The German / English presentation and soundtrack are excellent ; the smoking , fashion , and robotic trajectory accompaniment ? Not so much .
6. Tower Air Boeing 747, Circa Late 1980s
Tower Air went out of business in 2000 . But the flight attender chip in us his sound " Blue Steel " at 0:57 will always be with us .
7. Cathay Pacific Boeing 747-400, 1994
" This is a smoking flight ! " Shoulder pads ! Giant cell phones ! tiresome - motion atomic number 8 mask drop ! Welcome back to 1994 , masses !
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