Now that I am in my declining years, I dont mind admitting that when I see a Caravelle, my eyes get wet. I have been so privileged to be able to fly on her often, about 50 years ago. It is still one of the best looking planes ever. Too bad young plane lovers cant hear the noise the first series made, it was awesome and those windows were brilliant, lets face it, the designer quoted that one only looks down, and never look up thru an airplane window, hence the structurally strong triangle. Thanks for putting this video up, Bas ,greetings from YVR
Around 1960, when my dad and I went to SFO from LAX, we went on a DC-6. On the tarmac I saw a Carravelle in the United Airlines livery next to our DC-6. I loved airplanes and thought I knew them all but this was the first time I saw this beautiful jet. I asked one of the flight officers about this and said it was brand new and made in France. I would have liked to have flown in that but never had a chance. I was about 10 or 11 at the time, but I remember this well.
I've flown on DC-6's with American Airlines when I was around 6 & 7 years old. My dad worked for American. There is a Caravelle on display at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson Arizona. I used to be a member there and have seen that beautiful plane many times. Wish I could have flown on one.
I have heard many great stories about the Caravelle. My grandfather piloted the D.C-8, Caravelle and the 747 for SAS and said that the Caravelle was the most fun plane of the three planes. The best memory he had of the plane was when he had been assigned to fly to Toulouse and pick up new Caravelle's for SAS, nothing beats the feeling of powering up a brand new plane for the first time he said. Great video keep it up!
As a french, I can attest that "let's make a supersonic one and show them all who's the boss" was definitely Sud Aviation's position at the time ! So badly that they even cooperated with the British to do it. THE BRITISH.
If I may add. When the other manufacturers learned of the caravelles engines being situated in the back of the plane, they doubted the possibility for the plane to ever take to the air. Sud aviation proved them wrong. I flew these machines more than once (as a costumer) and it was a joy. Thank you for bringing back memories.
@@gerardpully762 I beg to differ. When my mom first went to France, Air Martinique operated caravelles. you may be correct in saying that the plane did not fly across the Atlantic. However what I'm guessing happened is that the airplane went from Caribbean island to Caribbean island. Then everybody transferred to a 707 for a trip across the Atlantic ocean. I'll ask my mother about it. I know she mentioned that the stairs went up through the back of the plane.
@@JerjerB You may be right, flying the Caravelle with stops in the Bermudas and the Azores Consider that the max range of the aircraft is 1200 km at optimum weight which means more fuel less passangers and viceversa. Later the Super Caravelle was introduced but not competitive with was by then available.
The Caravelle also convinced everyone you could fly a smaller, shorter range jet airliner and still make a tidy profit. That very success inspired the development of the BAC 1-11, BAe Trident, Boeing 727 and 737, etc.
I flew in her so often...my oldest souvenir is the 1970’s orange carpet of Air Inter’s Caravelles, along with the typical triangular windows. The last one I climbed in was in 2005 in Bogota el Dorado.
My very first flight took place in a Caravelle from Alitalia. That was in 1971, I was not quite a year old. The flight was from Düsseldorf to Rimini and back. In my heart, there will always a parking position be reserved for the Caravelle.
In Venezuela, we had the privilege of having seen in the skies this beautiful machine in the already extinct companies Viasa and AVENSA operating the Caravelle III version, for me, this model was the most advanced in it´s time and with it´s JT8D engines it was unmistakable to know that a Caravelle was approaching or taking off in the distance, until the introduction of the DC-9, 737-200 and 727 whose engine is the same, excellent video and cheers.
Excellent mini-documentary on the Caravelle. I had no idea they produced so many different versions. Definitely speaks to the soundness of the original design. I've always thought the Caravelle was a great looking aircraft but never knew it's history. Thank you for the video, good stuff indeed!
Well done! The Caravelle will always be a favorite of mine. So reliable, and comfortable. I worked for Finnair from 1972-1975, and loved the Super Caravelle!
wow, didn't know air inter still used the caravelle on this route in 1991 .. but i had a dassault mercure in 1992 for ORY-SXB .. and one of the very first A320 for SXB-CDG in 1990 .. but i still remember my very first flight at the age of 4 or 5 with a caravelle from frankfurt to toulouse.. with a stop in lyon. beautiful airplane :) ... and it sounded quite similar to our vacuum cleaner.. oO .. xD
Thank you for capturing a special time in aviation and in my life as well. My father took me along on a business trip from Chicago to Minneapolis on UAL in the early 60s. Even at ten years old, I remember the Caravelle being exceptionally quiet and smooth. No plane has since come close. A UAL mechanic who was on board checking the plane out told me that the radar was so powerful it would turn on his flashlight. He also encouraged me to pursue my nascent dream of becoming a pilot. Wonderful memories from a wonderful video production. Thank you!!
Together with the VC-10, the most beautiful airplanes ever. I am old now (75) but still seem to live in the time when France was still French. Edith Piaf and Citroen were household names. Yes, I have been very privileged to have lived through that era, when happiness was considered normal. I still watch planes her at YVR, but they are all twin engine lumps.
My father was a mechanic for United airlines and during the late 60's early 70's he would take me to work with him on weekends. They always had a Caravelle and a 737-100 on the ramp for checks at that time. He would let me go in the cockpit and pretend fly. I fell in love with the her and my dads pilot friends said she flew like a real airplane, not a jet. I had no idea what that meant until I started flying for the airlines and learned more about her. She had a wonderful wing that could fly slow without leading edge devices, she would climb as they said 'like a home sick angel". All in all a very well designed machine. Plus I liked the gray quilted material on the cockpit walls for insulation.
Merci...ça me rappelle de très bons souvenirs, dans les années 60', j'ai volé plusieurs fois sur "Caravelle" d'Air France et Air Algérie, sur la ligne Bordeaux-Alger. Ce furent mes plus beaux vols... Merveilleuse Caravelle ! Confort de vol, silence et...place aux jambes (!)...Je n'ai pas retrouvé le même confort sur l'A320 et le Mercure. Comme quoi...
Very interesting. Thanks. My first flight ever, as a kid in the 80s, was on Sterling Airways Super Caravelle (Model 12?) from CPH to PMI. I am very glad I have experinced that. Later I also tried the DC8 and the B727 from Sterling.
more then 50 years ago, think around1969, I flew wit AF Caravelle back from Casablanca to Paris en then to Amsterdam. Johnny Halliday and Sylvie Vartan were in the same plane, back from a 'tour de chant' in Morocco. We stranded in the desert on a military base, due to a huge sandstorm for several hours and soldiers cleaned the engines; nice souvenir!
Indeed it is and what a jet sound. I had the lucky chance to fly one at 9 years old in 1980. It was Finnair domestic summer run Helsinki to Kuopio. I remember clerly the staircase climbing up and the large windows. Thanks for an nice video.
I loved it. I flew in one once back in the 60’s. This brought great memories, thanks. Hopefully you will do more like this three: Hawker Siddely Trident, Vickers VC10, BAC One-Eleven. Keep them coming.
Really nice presentation there where you make us like this plane. Indeed, this airliner is superb looking. Talking to some older Air France pilots, they told me that they loved flying it. It was overpowered and could really climb at steep angles. It was also very easy to manoeuvre. I heard that the Super-Caravelle could self-land. I have seen it in so many movies and dreamed of flying it.
I always enjoy your videos with lots of information and sense of humour. I also like the high quality vintage color videos. It feels like the videos were taken today,Thumbs up!
Thanks for posting this. I remember as a kid in 1985 I had a large book of commercial airlines and their fleets. At the back were technical drawings and specs. The Caravelle was among them, but I could never understand why as they weren't listed in more than a handful of the airlines' fleets in the first section of the book. I never knew the Caravelle was such a prominent part of jet aviation history.
Less than 300 were made, kind of surprising considering how long they were produced. All told nearly 2000 Douglas DC9/MD 80's were made from 1965 to 1999, the Boeing 727 saw almost 1900 produced in it's lifespan and the 737 and it's endless variants are still in production with over 10,400 made and still being built. The caravelle was a frontrunner though, a jet that proved a market existed and helped to open jet travel to more people.
@@Oldbmwr100rs The American purchased a few of them when they came out. Then Douglas was tasked to service them and then later came out with their version. Even Boeing was strongly inspired for its 727. Needless to say that the American would not buy any other Caravelle and the same faith happened to British models as well. It is only the the A320 that the Americans commenced buying European jets.
@@lucrolland7489 Consider at the time the US had 3 major aircraft manufacturers and a couple others trickling out smaller jets. European companies just couldn't compete in our market as our own capability to produce was massive and developing newer planes very quickly. This also lead to some having pretty short lifespans in the market. Look into the Convair 880 and 990, the 990 being the fastest subsonic commercial jet made. Both were fuel hungry compared to later designs and didn't stick around.
Air Zaire ordered two Sud Aviation Caravelle aircraft for delivery in October 1967. In the late 1970's to mid 1980's Zaire Aero Services and Zaire Air Cargo operated a small fleet of used Caravelle aircraft on regional flight's. Both airline's had terrible maintainance problems and their aircraft were involved in several incidents and ended their days rotting at Kinshasa Airport. At the same time as the two aforementioned airline's from Zaire several African airline's were using the Caravelle on regional flight's although none of them survive today nor do their Caravelle aircraft.
An Aircraft who had very good sailing capabilities. Due to trim issues, often we were asked to come and sit in the forward rows. Good memories of this Airliner.
What a fantastic video. I've heard of the Caravelle, but knew nothing about it. And it really is one of the most beautiful jetliners I have ever seen. Thank you so much for the information and well edited video!
What a fabulous and well researched and narrated video! Caravelle was such a svelte looking aircraft. Love the leading tail extension atop the rear half of the fuselage. Great footage I've never seen before. Have subbed
Great video - as always :) Also great to see clips from the danish movie-series "Olsen-Banden". They used Sterling Airways in their films from 1968 to 1981 :)
Thank you for another educational and entertaining video. You're doing such a great job, please keep it up! I think the Caravelle was such a beautiful plane. Thank you for the upload!
Nice video, thank you. I flew in a similar aircraft, a DC-9 from Denver to Wichita. The air was still that day for the most part. I sat in coach up by first class. I marveled at the smooth, quiet ride. I’ve experienced nothing like it since.
L'avion Caravelle nous rappele de beaux souvenirs de jeunesse nous avons voyagé très nombreuses fois dans cette avion qui était avec le Boeing 707 parmi les avions confortables la caravelle moyen courrier par contre le Boeing 707 l'avion stable spacieux long courrier très puissant aux décollage stable dans les perturbations météorologiques un beaux souvenir qui s'est réveillé soudainement en notre mémoire.
I love your videos, man. Very informative for the relatively short time span. And you have a cracking good sense of humor to boot! Keep up the great work! Looking forward to a video on the Beech Starship one day.....
I really love this plane. It has done impressive things. I got told a lot of good things like it could glide very well and a lot of other things. For me, this is the best aircraft of the first jetliner generation. You made a good presentation of the aircraft but the caravelle had successors, the dassault mercure (good plane but commercial failure) and the Airbus A320 family...
And the DC 9 continued through design upgrades to the MD 80 series, MD 90 series and today as the MD 95 / 717 with over 3000 having been built. Sud should have gone with the licencing scheme.
It was really a joy to travel with the “ Caravelle “ , it was smooth of line and very elegant , the interior was luxurious ! It gave the impression to give each passenger a lot of space ( although in reality it was quiet small ) and then the two entrances , one at the backside was very convenient for those sitting at the backside of the plane ! Service was very good ( my first experience was in 1963 with a Caravelle from Alitalia ) together with my parents ! ( Brussel - Milano ) Until the early 90 ‘s I flew with many more Caravelle,s from different air companies , always good flights with excellent memories !
This has to be ! One of my favorite airplanes. Oh !! By the way the Comet at the beging it’s a Mexicana airlines ! Azteca de Oro , (golden Aztec ) nice . Oraleee
Yep. I rode in the cockpit jumpseat of a United Caravelle, from Chicago to Buffalo, by arrangement, while in the uniform of a different airline, flying the BAC 1-11(Right seat, then). Like the 1-11, it had a lartge, roomy cockpit.The big difference was, that the control columns were to the left and right of the pilots, bending inwards at the top, like the DC-3. I could see where that configuration would be preferable in a sudden stop.
Thanks for this great video, Sky. I remember seeng the Caravelles here at Frankfurt airport back in the day - their look was very distinctive, so it was easy for me as a kid to tell them apart from the other planes. (By that time, there were basically only the three models - "Jumbo", "Caravelle" and "Flugzeug" (German for airplane) - for me. ;-) ) Unfortunately my only flight on the Caravelle was as an "inside carry-on" of my mother - my parents went on summer vacation in a Caravelle a few months before I was born. So I obviously don't remember that flight and can't count it towards my statistics. I would have loved to experience those beauties, but by the time my parents went on vacation with me, the then popular holiday charter airline that used to fly Caravelles had them mostly replaced with DC-9s and their more modern re-incaranations MD-83 and -87, and we got the flights on the newer planes. (And thinking of those, I still hear the 400Hz hum on the PA and the distinctive sounds of the engine ignition on startup coupling into the plane's loudspeakers. Getting a bit nostalgic here.) On a more personal issue - please don't be to annoyed about some dumb@$$3$ ranting about your narration, especially if they haven't uploaded a single video here. (Well, I haven't either but the worst I do in comments is pointing out factual errors or adding constructive criticism when I think it could be helpful.) I really like your style of narration, and I don't mind at all that English is not your native language. I couldn't do it like you do, even though German and English are much "closer" than Russian and English. Please keep up with your great work!
My very first flight alone in 1976 at the age of 16 was onboard a Caravelle taking me from Frankfurt to Lyon- Satolas. I joined our Foreign Service in 1983 and have flown the world since. But this first flight alone with this marvellous aircraft, although it was short in comparison with my later voyages, will always stay in my memory.
Caravelle was without question one of the most gorgeous looking jet airliners ever created.
I AGREE and for me the most beautyfull is the concorde but my prefered one is the douglas dc 3
....and the hostesses of the 60s too....
Super design
Only the French could have designed such a beautiful jetliner. Flew several times on Caravelles, my favourite aircraft.
フランスとロシアのデザイン美
Tirana44 caravelle is like a Citroën ds only france can make this beautiful car and this plane caravelle .
we've done the concorde also with the english who got their style too
@@tomsvenkesen2476wrong nope 1000 percent fraces, you're a lier 😮😮😮
The Caravelle was gorgeous!
Just like Brigitte Bardot. 9:03
@@nightshift5201 Is was a very sucessfull plane, was the BB from the skies!
Now that I am in my declining years, I dont mind admitting that when I see a Caravelle, my eyes get wet. I have been so privileged to be able to fly on her often, about 50 years ago.
It is still one of the best looking planes ever. Too bad young plane lovers cant hear the noise the first series made, it was awesome and those windows were brilliant, lets face it, the designer quoted that one only looks down, and never look up thru an airplane window, hence the structurally strong triangle.
Thanks for putting this video up,
Bas ,greetings from YVR
A plane that's not talked about too much bit very sleek looking. I like the caravelle.
It used the nose of the De Havilland Comet 1.
@@andymadden8183 And thankfully it didn't use the windows form the De Havilland Comet 1
Comet -> Caravelle
@@andymadden8183 Only the prototypes had a Comet nose, the production models had a similar looking nose.
@@greateraviationgl91 Caravelle had a brilliant career... Comet did not.
Caravelle wins.
TS right?
Around 1960, when my dad and I went to SFO from LAX, we went on a DC-6. On the tarmac I saw a Carravelle in the United Airlines livery next to our DC-6. I loved airplanes and thought I knew them all but this was the first time I saw this beautiful jet. I asked one of the flight officers about this and said it was brand new and made in France. I would have liked to have flown in that but never had a chance. I was about 10 or 11 at the time, but I remember this well.
I've flown on DC-6's with American Airlines when I was around 6 & 7 years old. My dad worked for American. There is a Caravelle on display at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson Arizona. I used to be a member there and have seen that beautiful plane many times. Wish I could have flown on one.
I have heard many great stories about the Caravelle. My grandfather piloted the D.C-8, Caravelle and the 747 for SAS and said that the Caravelle was the most fun plane of the three planes.
The best memory he had of the plane was when he had been assigned to fly to Toulouse and pick up new Caravelle's for SAS, nothing beats the feeling of powering up a brand new plane for the first time he said.
Great video keep it up!
As a french, I can attest that "let's make a supersonic one and show them all who's the boss" was definitely Sud Aviation's position at the time ! So badly that they even cooperated with the British to do it. THE BRITISH.
If I may add. When the other manufacturers learned of the caravelles engines being situated in the back of the plane, they doubted the possibility for the plane to ever take to the air. Sud aviation proved them wrong. I flew these machines more than once (as a costumer) and it was a joy. Thank you for bringing back memories.
My mom loved this plane. in the 1950s she flew from her home in Martinique all the way to France. It must have stopped many times on the way
Jeremy Boulat. The SA Caravelle was not a transatlantic transport. Air France used the Boeing 707 for Ultramarine services.
@@gerardpully762 I beg to differ. When my mom first went to France, Air Martinique operated caravelles. you may be correct in saying that the plane did not fly across the Atlantic. However what I'm guessing happened is that the airplane went from Caribbean island to Caribbean island. Then everybody transferred to a 707 for a trip across the Atlantic ocean. I'll ask my mother about it. I know she mentioned that the stairs went up through the back of the plane.
@@JerjerB You may be right, flying the Caravelle with stops in the Bermudas and the Azores Consider that the max range of the aircraft is 1200 km at optimum weight which means more fuel less passangers and viceversa. Later the Super Caravelle was introduced but not competitive with was by then available.
The Caravelle also convinced everyone you could fly a smaller, shorter range jet airliner and still make a tidy profit. That very success inspired the development of the BAC 1-11, BAe Trident, Boeing 727 and 737, etc.
And the DC9, Tu-334, Fokker F28 and also the Bombardier CRJ. The second jet airliner to enter service. Too bad Air Canada did not purchase it.
Such a beautiful silhouette on approach. I do wish more of these old birds ended up in museums.
Yes, Caravelle had a great silhouette. So did the Lockheed Constellation.
I first rode on a Caravelle in '65 from Cleveland to Baltimore. On takeoff it climbed like a homesick angel! Smooth and quiet...what a plane!
I flew in her so often...my oldest souvenir is the 1970’s orange carpet of Air Inter’s Caravelles, along with the typical triangular windows.
The last one I climbed in was in 2005 in Bogota el Dorado.
My very first flight took place in a Caravelle from Alitalia. That was in 1971, I was not quite a year old. The flight was from Düsseldorf to Rimini and back. In my heart, there will always a parking position be reserved for the Caravelle.
In Venezuela, we had the privilege of having seen in the skies this beautiful machine in the already extinct companies Viasa and AVENSA operating the Caravelle III version, for me, this model was the most advanced in it´s time and with it´s JT8D engines it was unmistakable to know that a Caravelle was approaching or taking off in the distance, until the introduction of the DC-9, 737-200 and 727 whose engine is the same, excellent video and cheers.
OMG! Those three in the beginning is Olsen banden, my favourite movies when I was a kid. 😃
Jep.. ansigts udtryk på piloterne er feed
ruclips.net/video/6OUqR7Xf3ps/видео.html
Haha ja 🇩🇰
Excellent mini-documentary on the Caravelle. I had no idea they produced so many different versions. Definitely speaks to the soundness of the original design. I've always thought the Caravelle was a great looking aircraft but never knew it's history. Thank you for the video, good stuff indeed!
Well done! The Caravelle will always be a favorite of mine. So reliable, and comfortable. I worked for Finnair from 1972-1975, and loved the Super Caravelle!
Bravo an utmost brilliant, well formulated and presented bit of aviation information, most enjoyable. Keep up the great work.
HOO OUI!!
I loved it when United had these. Would always check the schedule and get my dad to book me on Caravelle flights (all first class).
Ooh! Tell us more! Tell us everything! Please?
Fine look at the Caravelle!
Same nose cone as De Havilland Comet, but Caravelle was the prettiest of 'em all.
Comet, Caravelle, Dreamliner. That beautiful profile is mesmerizing.
@@setsunatellem Don't forget C-Series = A220.
Only the prototypes had a Comet nose, the production models had a similar looking nose.
The most beautiful of the jetliners. No mention of the parachute, or of the Dassault Mercure.
What a nice aircraft - I flew with "Air Inter" Caravelle from Strasbourg to Paris and back - 1991 - ..... good times... 👍
Sadly that company, like most of the great airlines of years past, is gone.
wow, didn't know air inter still used the caravelle on this route in 1991 .. but i had a dassault mercure in 1992 for ORY-SXB .. and one of the very first A320 for SXB-CDG in 1990 ..
but i still remember my very first flight at the age of 4 or 5 with a caravelle from frankfurt to toulouse.. with a stop in lyon. beautiful airplane :) ... and it sounded quite similar to our vacuum cleaner.. oO .. xD
One of the most elegant planes!
Thank you for capturing a special time in aviation and in my life as well. My father took me along on a business trip from Chicago to Minneapolis on UAL in the early 60s. Even at ten years old, I remember the Caravelle being exceptionally quiet and smooth. No plane has since come close. A UAL mechanic who was on board checking the plane out told me that the radar was so powerful it would turn on his flashlight. He also encouraged me to pursue my nascent dream of becoming a pilot. Wonderful memories from a wonderful video production. Thank you!!
Together with the VC-10, the most beautiful airplanes ever. I am old now (75) but still seem to
live in the time when France was still French. Edith Piaf and Citroen were household names.
Yes, I have been very privileged to have lived through that era, when happiness was considered
normal. I still watch planes her at YVR, but they are all twin engine lumps.
Great time sir.
Even french cinema was really good
Skyships Eng, "Excellent" video and EXCELLENT AIRCRAFT! Still remember it!!! 💓
A300 is no longer used for zero-G flights, that's her successor, the A310, which is in use for this purpose.
My father was a mechanic for United airlines and during the late 60's early 70's he would take me to work with him on weekends. They always had a Caravelle and a 737-100 on the ramp for checks at that time. He would let me go in the cockpit and pretend fly. I fell in love with the her and my dads pilot friends said she flew like a real airplane, not a jet. I had no idea what that meant until I started flying for the airlines and learned more about her. She had a wonderful wing that could fly slow without leading edge devices, she would climb as they said
'like a home sick angel". All in all a very well designed machine. Plus I liked the gray quilted material on the cockpit walls for insulation.
Merci...ça me rappelle de très bons souvenirs, dans les années 60', j'ai volé plusieurs fois sur "Caravelle" d'Air France et Air Algérie, sur la ligne Bordeaux-Alger. Ce furent mes plus beaux vols... Merveilleuse Caravelle ! Confort de vol, silence et...place aux jambes (!)...Je n'ai pas retrouvé le même confort sur l'A320 et le Mercure. Comme quoi...
Very interesting. Thanks. My first flight ever, as a kid in the 80s, was on Sterling Airways Super Caravelle (Model 12?) from CPH to PMI. I am very glad I have experinced that. Later I also tried the DC8 and the B727 from Sterling.
Great video, always good to learn more about the golden era of aviation.
more then 50 years ago, think around1969, I flew wit AF Caravelle back from Casablanca to Paris en then to Amsterdam. Johnny Halliday and Sylvie Vartan were in the same plane, back from a 'tour de chant' in Morocco. We stranded in the desert on a military base, due to a huge sandstorm for several hours and soldiers cleaned the engines; nice souvenir!
Indeed it is and what a jet sound. I had the lucky chance to fly one at 9 years old in 1980. It was Finnair domestic summer run Helsinki to Kuopio. I remember clerly the staircase climbing up and the large windows. Thanks for an nice video.
I loved it. I flew in one once back in the 60’s. This brought great memories, thanks. Hopefully you will do more like this three: Hawker Siddely Trident, Vickers VC10, BAC One-Eleven. Keep them coming.
Not forgetting the competing Il-62, Tu-154 and Tu-134. Flew once on a Trident and once on an Il-62M.
Flew on one from Zurich to London right before Christmas 1968.
Really nice presentation there where you make us like this plane. Indeed, this airliner is superb looking. Talking to some older Air France pilots, they told me that they loved flying it. It was overpowered and could really climb at steep angles. It was also very easy to manoeuvre. I heard that the Super-Caravelle could self-land. I have seen it in so many movies and dreamed of flying it.
That Scandinavian Airlines livery looks so good!
Not the one they recently announced.
I always enjoy your videos with lots of information and sense of humour. I also like the high quality vintage color videos. It feels like the videos were taken today,Thumbs up!
The SAS Caravelles looked extremly good with the silver/blue/white colour scheme.(12.06)
Thank you for all of these videos on our old and new plane's, and how technology has changed. ....again. ..thank you. ...
Thanks for posting this. I remember as a kid in 1985 I had a large book of commercial airlines and their fleets. At the back were technical drawings and specs. The Caravelle was among them, but I could never understand why as they weren't listed in more than a handful of the airlines' fleets in the first section of the book. I never knew the Caravelle was such a prominent part of jet aviation history.
Less than 300 were made, kind of surprising considering how long they were produced. All told nearly 2000 Douglas DC9/MD 80's were made from 1965 to 1999, the Boeing 727 saw almost 1900 produced in it's lifespan and the 737 and it's endless variants are still in production with over 10,400 made and still being built. The caravelle was a frontrunner though, a jet that proved a market existed and helped to open jet travel to more people.
@@Oldbmwr100rs The American purchased a few of them when they came out. Then Douglas was tasked to service them and then later came out with their version. Even Boeing was strongly inspired for its 727. Needless to say that the American would not buy any other Caravelle and the same faith happened to British models as well. It is only the the A320 that the Americans commenced buying European jets.
@@lucrolland7489 Consider at the time the US had 3 major aircraft manufacturers and a couple others trickling out smaller jets. European companies just couldn't compete in our market as our own capability to produce was massive and developing newer planes very quickly. This also lead to some having pretty short lifespans in the market. Look into the Convair 880 and 990, the 990 being the fastest subsonic commercial jet made. Both were fuel hungry compared to later designs and didn't stick around.
Great to see a rather unjustly forgotten airliner covered in the way it deserves. Your videos are always a pleasure to watch.
My friend who grew up in Kinshasa Zaire said he flew in several Caravelle aircraft. Lucky!
Air Zaire ordered two Sud Aviation Caravelle aircraft for delivery in October 1967.
In the late 1970's to mid 1980's Zaire Aero Services and Zaire Air Cargo operated a small fleet of used Caravelle aircraft on regional flight's. Both airline's had terrible maintainance problems and their aircraft were involved in several incidents and ended their days rotting at Kinshasa Airport.
At the same time as the two aforementioned airline's from Zaire several African airline's were using the Caravelle on regional flight's although none of them survive today nor do their Caravelle aircraft.
I've got to give you a round of applause here. Like many of your other videos I have enjoyed this one. Great work!
flew on an Iberian Caravelle from Barcelona to Madrid in1972...a marvellous and beautiful plane
An Aircraft who had very good sailing capabilities.
Due to trim issues, often we were asked to come and sit in the forward rows.
Good memories of this Airliner.
That is if they could overcome the pernicious electrical problems to start the engines.
What a fantastic video. I've heard of the Caravelle, but knew nothing about it. And it really is one of the most beautiful jetliners I have ever seen. Thank you so much for the information and well edited video!
9:04 Brigitte Bardot? Nice story Skyships. Didn't know a lot of this early airline development history. Tnanx. :)
What a fabulous and well researched and narrated video! Caravelle was such a svelte looking aircraft. Love the leading tail extension atop the rear half of the fuselage. Great footage I've never seen before. Have subbed
Great video - as always :)
Also great to see clips from the danish movie-series "Olsen-Banden". They used Sterling Airways in their films from 1968 to 1981 :)
Godt at se en fra gruppen (Danish Aviation spotting) 😁
Thanks for this wonderful video. I really enjoy your videos. Keep doing what you do :) Cheers!
Thank you for another educational and entertaining video. You're doing such a great job, please keep it up! I think the Caravelle was such a beautiful plane. Thank you for the upload!
Nice video, thank you. I flew in a similar aircraft, a DC-9 from Denver to Wichita. The air was still that day for the most part. I sat in coach up by first class. I marveled at the smooth, quiet ride. I’ve experienced nothing like it since.
My 1st 2 jet flights were on Caravelles - a beautiful plane
Another well researched and interesting video. Thank you!
L'avion Caravelle nous rappele de beaux souvenirs de jeunesse nous avons voyagé très nombreuses fois dans cette avion qui était avec le Boeing 707 parmi les avions confortables la caravelle moyen courrier par contre le Boeing 707 l'avion stable spacieux long courrier très puissant aux décollage stable dans les perturbations météorologiques un beaux souvenir qui s'est réveillé soudainement en notre mémoire.
First class content and soundtrack
Viaje de niño en 1982 en Saeta una aerolínea local de mi Ecuador, en un vuelo de Guayaquil a Quito , era un avión realmente hermoso.
Usual goodness and narration 👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Finally.someone covers the Caravelle
Beautiful aircraft.
Thank you for an informative and even entertaining tutorial about La Caravelle.
Nice touch inverting the clip appearing at 11:38 to the one shown at 11:55. :-)
I really enjoyed learning so much about this truly unique aircraft.
Sky thanks for yet another informative video
No one makes aviation vids better than Sky.
A really great history lesson on the topic of aviation... excellent!
Outstanding job my friend !
Un très très bel avion qui aura marqué l'histoire.
Thank you, Sky!
Was always very interested in this plane. Great video. Thank you.
I love your videos, man. Very informative for the relatively short time span. And you have a cracking good sense of humor to boot! Keep up the great work! Looking forward to a video on the Beech Starship one day.....
As usual, tons and tons of ueseful information- and this very well presented. Please keep the good work coming :-)
As usual, a great video!! And a great plane!! Thanks
Awesome video! So much information and brought very well!
I really love this plane. It has done impressive things. I got told a lot of good things like it could glide very well and a lot of other things. For me, this is the best aircraft of the first jetliner generation. You made a good presentation of the aircraft but the caravelle had successors, the dassault mercure (good plane but commercial failure) and the Airbus A320 family...
And the DC 9 continued through design upgrades to the MD 80 series, MD 90 series and today as the MD 95 / 717 with over 3000 having been built. Sud should have gone with the licencing scheme.
It was really a joy to travel with the “ Caravelle “ , it was smooth of line and very elegant , the interior was luxurious !
It gave the impression to give each passenger a lot of space ( although in reality it was quiet small ) and then the two entrances , one at the backside was very convenient
for those sitting at the backside of the plane !
Service was very good ( my first experience was in 1963 with a Caravelle from Alitalia ) together with my parents ! ( Brussel - Milano )
Until the early 90 ‘s I flew with many more Caravelle,s from different air companies , always good flights with excellent memories !
I really like your work and presentation, and the cool accent too. Great work
This has to be ! One of my favorite airplanes. Oh !! By the way the Comet at the beging it’s a Mexicana airlines ! Azteca de Oro , (golden Aztec ) nice . Oraleee
All the Comet clips here are of 4's or 4C's. I understand a Mexicana Comet 4C is preserved in a museum in Seattle.
Excellent! Informative and entertaining. Well done! I remember when United Airlines flew the Caravelle in the USA.....
Yep. I rode in the cockpit jumpseat of a United Caravelle, from Chicago to Buffalo, by arrangement, while in the uniform of a different airline, flying the BAC 1-11(Right seat, then). Like the 1-11, it had a lartge, roomy cockpit.The big difference was, that the control columns were to the left and right of the pilots, bending inwards at the top, like the DC-3. I could see where that configuration would be preferable in a sudden stop.
Congratulations! Great quality videos.
4:43 All bow in the presence of Glorious Moustache.
So many memories, but I can only go back as far as the early 70s. Great video. likes and subscribed :) Thanks
Its one of the most beautiful airplanes in all history
Thanks for this great video, Sky. I remember seeng the Caravelles here at Frankfurt airport back in the day - their look was very distinctive, so it was easy for me as a kid to tell them apart from the other planes. (By that time, there were basically only the three models - "Jumbo", "Caravelle" and "Flugzeug" (German for airplane) - for me. ;-) )
Unfortunately my only flight on the Caravelle was as an "inside carry-on" of my mother - my parents went on summer vacation in a Caravelle a few months before I was born. So I obviously don't remember that flight and can't count it towards my statistics.
I would have loved to experience those beauties, but by the time my parents went on vacation with me, the then popular holiday charter airline that used to fly Caravelles had them mostly replaced with DC-9s and their more modern re-incaranations MD-83 and -87, and we got the flights on the newer planes. (And thinking of those, I still hear the 400Hz hum on the PA and the distinctive sounds of the engine ignition on startup coupling into the plane's loudspeakers. Getting a bit nostalgic here.)
On a more personal issue - please don't be to annoyed about some dumb@$$3$ ranting about your narration, especially if they haven't uploaded a single video here. (Well, I haven't either but the worst I do in comments is pointing out factual errors or adding constructive criticism when I think it could be helpful.) I really like your style of narration, and I don't mind at all that English is not your native language. I couldn't do it like you do, even though German and English are much "closer" than Russian and English. Please keep up with your great work!
Ahh, the Caravelle, the first airplane I ever flew on. I was but a little boy but I remember its shrieky voice very well.
There is an old finnair Caravelle stored outdoors at Arlanda Airport close to a Swedavia MD-80
Yep. I was there, took some pictures.
@@libertyliberal4349 Do you still have those pictures? If digital can you share them? I'm planning on making model of one.
Enjoyed the film. Thank you!
Excellent presentation. Please note: of the top 20 fatal crashes, almost all were due to pilot error, not aircraft flaws. C'est tres belle..
Bless you aviation-buddy.
Wonderful video. Thank you!
As usually , you made a good and interesting video. . Thanks for share to us
Very nicely done! Thank you !
My very first flight alone in 1976 at the age of 16 was onboard a Caravelle taking me from Frankfurt to Lyon- Satolas. I joined our Foreign Service in 1983 and have flown the world since. But this first flight alone with this marvellous aircraft, although it was short in comparison with my later voyages, will always stay in my memory.
Thanks. Real nice video and airplane.
Wonderful and educational for an airplane nut like myself. Thank You