I had flown so many times on this aircraft as a child when I was around 9 to 14. Those triangular shaped windows and boarding the aircraft from the rear end.
Funny that even though I keep hearing that the Boeing B-52 is being retired from the USAF and then you'll hear about them being deployed to [pick a country of your choice the DNC likes] for dropping drones or a new type of weaponry or a UFO chaser or something, it just keeps soldiering on and on and on...
Ah, yes! This brought back memories. I was a mechanic based in Denver, Colorado. Our rival airline, United, had a large fleet of these beautiful, sleek Caravelles. I worked the night shift and United would perform engine trim procedures right next to our hangar. The loud whine of those engines would drill into my head. Engine technology has improved greatly since the sixties. Good to see one still ‘alive’.
I rode some of these guys too and from Thailand to Bali and other destinations in 1966+. One of my best memories was the airport workers covering their ears as we passed by. The loudest airliner that I ever heard!
@@schneegeist oh, yeah! Continental Airlines operated them. The Viscount major maintenance shop adjoined our airlines hangar. The scream of all four Rolls Royce turbo props during run-up tests was bad but, not (in my opinion) as bad as the Caravelle engines.
The most beautiful airplane ever built...tandem landing gear...long wings...rear ladder...Nice windows shape...low levei from ground...different passengers windows...beautiful empenagem as well really its the most wonderfull plane in the world.
I’m voting for Lockheed Constellation as most beautiful… Caravelle is way up on the list though. Love to fly in one today, just to jolt my memory about how good an airliner it was.
Flew several times from BOM to BLR in the mid seventies. Fantastic aircraft. Was a kid then. Once, on a stopover at GOI, the captain took a few of us kids to see the cockpit. Was a big event for us! The sound from those small engines were stupendous!
It was the beginning of the 1970s when I was a little boy and went to the seaside from Belgrade to Dubrovnik with my grandmother. At the time Yugoslav Airlines (JAT) already switched mainly to DC9 but our plane broke so we have to wait at Belgrade airport until dark to finally start our trip. Instead of the new DC9, they put us in some pretty worn Caravelle and on top of that we got into a severe storm with lightning and turbulence. I still have very vivid pictures in my head of the wind throwing us from side to side and lights flickering in the cabin full of cigarette smoke. Nevertheless, everything ends up well except we landed at Tivat airport instead of Dubrovnik. That was my only flight with Caravelle and it didn't stay in good memory :-). Many years later I realised what a wonderful plane that was and makes me proud that I may say that I was flying in that plane. There is one JAT Caravelle (YU-AHB) parked in front of the museum at the Belgrade airport, maybe even "my" Caravelle, who knows...
Hahaha my first flight from Münster via Bremen to Tunis was also a caravelle of tunisair. The leg from Münster to Bremen was very stormy, thunder and rain . Nearly all passengers were vomiting ,the plane was shaking from one to the other side but I loved it.
Hard to imagine Yugoslavia buying airplanes from the west. Being a communist country at the time, they believe that an American built plane was more reliable than Soviet made planes.
@@frankdenardo8684 Yugoslavia a communist country? A socialist one maybe but never communist. China, Cuba, North Korea and USSR were communist at that time.
The first time I flew in my life was in 1975 with a Sterling Caravelle from Jönköping to Rimini and back. I was then 24 years old and many good memories come to mind.
Back in 1980 we flew to Bulgaria In a sterling caravelle but can't remember if it was from Kastrup or Malmö Bulltofta but I do remember the pilots asking if any of us wanted to come and look at the cockpit. I was 15 then and thank you for the video as that's exactly what the plane looked like, we even got a Sterling bag 👍
I flew on Air Inter Caravelle back in the 90's often from Orly to Toulouse. Each and every time the plane was full of pilots headed to training in TLS and each time to pilots flew the plane like a military fighter ie hard banks, steep decents etc. One time a UAL pilot was seated next to me and started complaining that such maneuvers would not be tolerated by pax and pilots in the US. I laughed and said it made the flight memorable, besides the female cabin crew still wore white gloves as part of their uniform. It made the experience all the more memorable.
Wow.. almost arborne again ....such an amazing old bird. 😍💖💖💖💖💖💖 Makes me cry every time I see this speciel plane. I flew so many times with with my mother in the Sterling Airways Super Caravelle SE210 when I was a child from 1970 -1980 ..the sound, the smell, the cabin... The most elegant airplane ever...
Great job, congratulations. Good that one Caravelle is still running, as it is one of the most beautiful planes ever built. It deserves to be preserved. I would like to see it fly again.
@@peterw4338 sorry, these jets had a distinct very high pitch that used to wake me up in the middle of the night landing at an airport near where I lived back in the early 60s (I’m an old man now).
In the 1960s, I often came to the airport just to watch the Caravelle take off. There was not and there is no more beautiful take-off of a passenger plane than the start of the Caravelle. At that time, she was still flying alone in the colors of Air France.
I couldn't believe my eyes when i was flying from Helsinki to Oslo via Stockholm,when I saw these Caravelles from about 500 feet. What a thrill!! I thought I was dreaming.
There's something so mechanically satisfying about a flight deck full of 'steam driven' instruments (as opposed to glass) - I think it's the same beauty I'd associate with a fine watch. I know glass is the future, but imagine if aircraft manufacturers started offering limited edition versions of a new 757 (for example) full of analogue gauges. God it'd be beautiful.
@@zepter00 Well no, it'd be totally impractical as anything but a showboat - modern airspace is increasingly based on RNAV so unless you fancied programming a pseudo VOR/DME after every waypoint in a SID or STAR...
My last flight with Super Caravelle was il May 1991 from Rome FCO to Aleppo Syria, a direct flight operated by Syrian Air . Thank you so much for sharing this video .
I disagree, hower it is definitely up there and wish a similar design could reappear. DH 106, VC10, Concorde and the 707/DC8 are far more better looking.
@@bingbong7316 the early 727's had to have been a close second - being under one of these on departure from Charlotte NC in the early 1960's?? The "Whisperjet" moniker was a joke.
As the history of aviation reveals, the Caravelle is one of the most stunningly beautiful aircraft of the 1960s to 1970s. Please, please save this semi-operational version and make it airworthy.
I wish it could be made airworthy as well, but I suspect modern safety standards would make that impossible. One of the reasons Concorde was taken out of operation was that they'd have to essentially redesign and retrofit the navigation/guidance system and several other major elements of its internals to meet the standards coming up in the mid-2000s. I'm sure it would be utterly cost-prohibitive to do the same for a single Caravelle; not to mention that doing so would utterly change the character of the cockpit. Sadly, that's true for many of the classic airliners of the early jet age.
@@JamesDavidWalley Cost prohibitive? Maybe. But plenty of even older aircraft are restored and flying today. They are not flying commercially of course -- but under another category (typically "experimental") and without having to make major upgrades to panels and systems (with some exceptions, such as adding modern radios). It's usually a question of IF the aircraft's hull can be made airworthy...and the cost to do so. Sadly, most are not good candidates.
Thanks so much! What a catch! I used to fly this plane 41 years ago on The French Army in Tahiti. Papeete - Hao and Papeete - Mururoa. An other life. I do like the Caravelle.
The Caravelle was just a truly beautiful, if not very noisy, aeroplane, and just magic to be inside one. Absolutely wonderful to see SE-DAI still able to start up and taxi, and long may it be so. Thank you for this magnificent video. Still in good condition for a 55 year old airliner
Beatiful airplane with Rolls Royce Avon. Manufactured in France, in Spain in operated by Iberia, Aviaco, TAE, Transeuropa, Hispania in the 60,s and the 70,s
Beautiful. Back in the late 80s, some were used in the US for cargo. They are all gone now. Keep running her up and taxi every once in a while. She will last a long time.
While flying between Oslo and Helsinki via Arlanda, I saw this beauty and another parked together. I couldn't believe my eyes! I thought they were all gone. The Caravelle is truly the most beautiful airliner ever made. Unfortunately, I never got to fly on one, even when United flew them from Milwaukee, my hometown as a teen. It's amazing that they can keep it running.
Truly? That's a matter of opinion! Truth is that there were a number of beautiful airliners of that period. Personally I think the Super Constellation takes some beating.
@@DerekGM6 Of course, beauty is always in the eye of the beholder. Having flown as a child on the all versions of the Connie, I have to agree; Queen of the Golden Age of Flying. We even have a neon building here in Madison (KMSN) named "The Constellation."
Over the years, the Caravelle has received some criticism about short range. But two things stand out about this fine aircraft. It was a pioneer. It may have been the first jet aircraft to put the engines in the back, and more than anything else, it was BEAUTIFUL!!! It deserved a much better fate.
Depending on model some Caravelles had a very decent range. We flew from Stockholm to Cyprus, that is about 1200nm = 1800 miles. Took close to 5 hours if the winds were unfavorable. We used the P&W engined Caravelles 10B, always full as it was charter flights.
Used to watch United Caravelles at Pittsburgh Int'l Airport back in the 50's and 60's. Of course back in those days you could walk right out on the observation deck for a close up view of them approaching and leaving the gate. I remember those Caravelle engines were real screamers. When you saw one approaching you covered your ears.
When I was 4-5 years old I flew with my mom on one of those from Chicago to PIT! It's more of a faint memory of a memory at this point, but I can picture the plane at the gate on a rainy Chicago night and the distinctive windows.
It makes me crazy, why it was necessary to remove the obsevational decks? What the purpose? National security again? It was a great fun for me when i was a child to observe the movements of those aircraft, it was do exciting! It was like paradice for me...and now nothing. bastads
That observation deck was closed well before the 80’s. It’s a real shame as the old greater Pitt airport had a lot of cool places in it that had been closed off to the public. I still remember the heavy jet exhaust smell from the underground arrival pickup area.
Flew with one of these back in 1981, A Sterling machine from Kastrup to Herakleon, Crete. That was 40 years ago, and the Caravelle was considered an old aircraft even then. And if you were unlucky enough to have a seat near the rear of the cabin, you were in for a NOISY ride. Beautiful looking little machines, though, the Caravelles.
@@maskedavenger2578 It was even worse in the Caravelle, though. By the time the 737's came along, low bypass turbofan engines were in use. Still not quiet by any means, but still... In the Caravelle, though, it was still first generation turbo jets. It was basically a 1950s aircraft through and through. And, to make it even worse, the engines sat mounted as you see them here, directly to the fuselage. Boeing had at least mounted their engines on pods underneath the wings. Those poor souls in the rear of the cabin must have been absolutely bat shit after a three hour flight. I was lucky, as I sat allmost in the front. But the only toilet on board was at the rear. And that noise back there... Bloody flippin' Nora!
@@Innerspace100 Never traveled in a Caravelle only up near the front of a BAC 1/ 11 which was a similar type of aircraft only with a T tail .The 737 ‘s I travelled on were the earlier versions fitted with very noisy RR turbo jets that spat flames on take off .The smoothest flight I ever had was on a Comet 4 c ,it was smoother than the 707 & had some seats facing each other .
-200's with Rolls Royce engines? That's new to me. I've allways been under the impression that they were fitted with Pratt & Whitney JT8D's from the factory, and those were low bypass turbofans... The Comet was a beautiful looking aircraft(!). Had they only fitted the round windows from the beginning, civil aviation history might have been very different...
@@Innerspace100 The British airlines junked the cheap Pratt & Whitney paraffin burners fitted on Boeing’s for proper Rolls Royce engines ,they even looked better suited to the streamlined shape of the Boeing airliners .The only thing the Comet needed was a more swept back tail plane to match the wings .once it was sorted .
I noticed the fuel gauges were reading empty but nice to see such an elderly commercial jet still with all its bits and able to spool units engines. I hope they manage to keep it that way instead of just another inanimate museum piece
She was one of two ex SAS aircraft modified and operated by the Swedish Airforce until 1999 as ELINT aircraft until replaced by modified Gulfstream IVSP aircraft'.The other one of the two is in the Swedish Airforce Museum.
Congratulations👏👏👏 on saving this beautiful caravel! I worked, Air Inter, on the caravelle 12 ...❤ as an online maintenance mechanic..She was, even more beautiful..👍😉😊
7:02 not everyday you see a Caravelle from the cockpit of a Caravelle and a MD-80 :O Thanks for keeping this old bird alive! I read from somewhere that the other Caravelle that can be seen is being sent to Finland for restoration.
I’m a retired Flight Dispatcher for United Airlines and got to ride from EWR to ORD. A FACTOID: from 30,000 ft both engines at idle, the aircraft could glide 130 miles (so the manual says).
I used to fly on the Caravelle as a boy in the late 60's early 70's from Nice to London Heathrow and back. What stuck in my mind the most was that the seats halfway through the plane (at the wing) were facing backwards from the wing to the cockpit, IIRC. This was on Air France.... Anyone else remember how gorgeous the stewardesses were back then?
I've have had the privelege to get a tour and a 'no restriction photo session' with this individual. It was amazing to see it up close and personal, but we never got the chance to experience it come to life like this. Wonderful too see and hear it like this, great video! Do support the Le Caravelle Club so that they can (at least) keep it from deteriorating.
My first flight on a jet was in early Jan 1965 Milwaukee to Cleveland on United. Then I had to transfer to a DC-6B for my next leg to Baltimore. It was the return of my first trip home after starting a job after college. My outbound trip, intended for Milwaukee landed in O'Hare, the only plane to land at ORD in 24 hours because of pea soup fog. That was on a United Vickers Viscount, a red eye, three passengers and a whole lot of mail in the seats for Christmas mail.
...I remember the when United operated Caravelles into Milwaukee, they were primarily used on the Milwaukee Cleveland Newark route. Indeed they were loud as they had the old RR Avon turbojets. Later versions of the Caravelle (10B 11R and 12) were fitted with JT-8Ds. TWA would have been the second operator in the States with the model 10A powered be GE aft fan jets, but financial troubles caused them to cancel the order.
En juin 1977 Strasbourg-London Heathrow en Caravelle pour un Weekend à Londres(superbe atterrissage au coucher du soleil) et en mai 1974 vol Strasbourg-Nürnberg-Strasbourg pour la journée pour visiter l’usine Grundig (offert par Grundig aux techniciens et revendeurs, j’avais 17 ans seulement car mon père m’avait laissé son ticket, super souvenir) Au retour vers Strasbourg en soirée, violent orage et turbulences juste avant de se poser avec les réacteurs qui hurlent, j’étais assis tout au fond à gauche à 1 mètre environ de la turbine, inoubliable expérience 🏆 , puis mon oncle m’a ramené à Colmar avec sa Ford Granada . Merci d’avoir vécu tout ça !
Correct, thanks to Douglas the Caravelle DNA still survives in the last DC-9, MD-80/90 and Boeing 717 still operating. In the 1950s Douglas was entitled to produce Caravelles under license. Instead of that, they reverse engineered the prototype and start producing their own quasi identical DC-9 which will later evolve into the MD-80/ 90 family until the MD-95 was eventually rebranded 717 by Boeing.
Fantastic! I was lucky enough to fly on a Caravelle in August of 1974 when Court Line went bust and I was stranded somewhere in Spain on a package holiday from the UK. As a kid and an aviation enthusiast, it was amazing to fly over in an enormous, beautiful, modern L1011 TriStar painted two shades of bright pink, and fun to fly back in a noisy, rickety old Caravelle, which was basically a De Havilland Comet with a different engine configuration.
Second most perfectectly proportioned and beautiful airliner. I remember as a kid flying on them in the Middle East...the windows had a wonderful shape for a great view. I miss those airliners with ventral steps, I always insisted on climbing them if available.
Brings back memories when working as a ground handler at Rotterdam Airport in the 1970s, when they were running a regular charter service to the Canary Islands (can't remember which company though!). Beautiful lines!
@@josborsboom5092je hebt nog een goed geheugen, het mijne is weg! Werkte ook bij Aerohandling, mijn vader (Aerocontacts BV) had destijds Aerohandling opgezet in ik (samen met mijn broer Reinier) ben daar begonnen met het schuren en verven van het materieel!
@@DutchieDownUnder , Jou, Reinier kan ik me nog goed herinneren. Er was toen een directeur Ko Eger en een bedrijfsleider Madiol. De Bruin was toen chef TD En Anthon Smit en een zekere Wanner de duty officiers. We hebben daar hard gewerkt maar ook heel veel gelachen. Er was een uitstekende sfeer. P.s. Ik woon sinds 21 jaar in Twente.
@@josborsboom5092 Ko Eger ken ik ook nog, alsmede De Bruin (zat altijd door de afval container te graaien op zoek naar overblijfsels van de catering truck!). Anthon Smit ken ik ook, heb een aantal malen met hem gevlogen (hij had z'n PPL+) maar was vreemd want hij had een tic. Sfeer was uitstekend, en Reinier is later zelf Duty Officer geworden. Is na een aantal jaren weg gegaan en werd toen Cargo Manager voor SIA op Schiphol. Heeft later nog een bedrijf gestart vanaf Rotterdam met zijn (destijdige) vrouw (Faravia) maar is nu al een aantal jaren European Cargo Manager voor Atlas. Ik ben in 1980 voor een vakantie naar Australie gegaan, en kwam 1.5 jaar later terug naar Rotterdam om wat dingen te regelen. Heb toen nog een tijdje gewerkt voor RotterdamAir, maar ben eind 1984 weer naar Australie gegaan waar ik nu nog steeds woon. FYI www.call-eric.com.au & www.aashay.com.au Mis nog steeds de luchtvaart, en ben nog steeds helemaal gek van vliegtuigen etc.
Flew on these in the Sixties, and a handsome plane agreed, but in the Seventies worked on them as a baggage handler, and for that it was the worst plane ever - unless you were a potholer!
When I was a kid back in the 60’s I was flying (as a passenger) almost exclusively on board one of Thai Airways International’s Caravelles. It was such a beautiful aircraft. My late Dad, who was a jet fighter pilot instructor, told me then that the locations of the engines at the rear mean lower noise in the cabin and also less vibration. I could feel that this was true after the airline switched to a fleet of DC-8.
Love the clarification that you flew as a passenger, and not a pilot! heheheh what an amazing story! Must have been very nice to fly during that time. I mean, modern planes are safer, more comfortable, quieter... but the older ones have so much charm!
@@OscarScheepstra_Artemis_ I guess the airline wouldn’t hire a 13-year-old pilot even in those heady times. I was flying with my family on the Bangkok-Manila route, sometimes with a stopover in Hong Kong. The Caravelle would take almost 4 hours to cover the BKK-MNL route. TG’s onboard service was most memorable.
Very interesting footage of the Caravelle. A beautiful and stylish aircraft which I often saw landing and taking off when I was plane spotting in my youth. Would love to see it airborne. Thank you. ✈️
The modern aircrafts are like clones...no beauty no design, no personality...very sad, boring design. Only utility purposes. Im very glad and thanckfull for keeping this legend alive! Wish you all the best
Still the most beautiful and svelte visual design ever penned IMHO (Always loved the tailplane extension along the top of the fuselage) . Great video! Have fond memories of many of the Alitalia I-DAX* @ Manchester Ringway as a pre-teen spotter in the very late 60's. She needs to be repainted and sent on a world tour, so we can all see her in all her glory!
The Caravelle was the first jet aircraft to operate from Chicago's other (and much smaller) airport back in the 60s. It had a unique sound; you knew one was flying over without even seeing it.
Greeting from the Great White North 🇨🇦 I remember seeing these planes in books as a child I just love how they incorporate the engine’s. My Dad would take us to the local airport for take off. My first dream was to be a pilot about age 8 but the dream I could never materialize it. As I discovered I’m colour blind and dyslexia. Now pushing 60 glad to see this beautiful classic aircraft. Cheers 🇨🇦
Thanks a lot for this video, i worked on the last Caravelles in France and Suitzerland (EAS, AIR PROVENCE, AIR TOULOUSE) for NDT and PSIS Inspections, it was a wonderfull aircraft! Thank you for this share
Its got beautiful sleek lines, just like the Eiffle Tower. I can picture one doing Paris - Beirut, Casablanca or Brazzaville in the 1960's, early 70's. Those were the early jet flying days.
I had flown so many times on this aircraft as a child when I was around 9 to 14. Those triangular shaped windows and boarding the aircraft from the rear end.
Même chose pour moi...as UM :)
The French beauty has returned
Tjena!
State of the Art May 27, 1955
Its an old plane from 1955 yet it has a very modern cab forward design reminiscent of today’s 787 and A350…incredible 65 years young!
Beautiful, indeed. Its the nose inherited from the De Havilland Comet 😘❤
@@stephanembaye The lovely Comet nose shape was so ahead of it's time 👌
@@scotty6346 so elegant 😍
Funny that even though I keep hearing that the Boeing B-52 is being retired from the USAF and then you'll hear about them being deployed to [pick a country of your choice the DNC likes] for dropping drones or a new type of weaponry or a UFO chaser or something, it just keeps soldiering on and on and on...
Et c’est Français !
Ah, yes! This brought back memories. I was a mechanic based in Denver, Colorado. Our rival airline, United, had a large fleet of these beautiful, sleek Caravelles. I worked the night shift and United would perform engine trim procedures right next to our hangar. The loud whine of those engines would drill into my head. Engine technology has improved greatly since the sixties. Good to see one still ‘alive’.
I rode some of these guys too and from Thailand to Bali and other destinations in 1966+. One of my best memories was the airport workers covering their ears as we passed by. The loudest airliner that I ever heard!
Dunno. Have you heard the Vickers Viscount?
@@schneegeist oh, yeah! Continental Airlines operated them. The Viscount major maintenance shop adjoined our airlines hangar. The scream of all four Rolls Royce turbo props during run-up tests was bad but, not (in my opinion) as bad as the Caravelle engines.
@@schneegeist
Vickers Viscount :
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Should be in a museum
French Greatness. Thank you for looking after her. She's a legend of an aircraft. What a looker
The most beautiful airplane ever built...tandem landing gear...long wings...rear ladder...Nice windows shape...low levei from ground...different passengers windows...beautiful empenagem as well really its the most wonderfull plane in the world.
I’m voting for Lockheed Constellation as most beautiful… Caravelle is way up on the list though. Love to fly in one today, just to jolt my memory about how good an airliner it was.
Most beautiful passenger plane in the world, all times
Flew several times from BOM to BLR in the mid seventies. Fantastic aircraft. Was a kid then. Once, on a stopover at GOI, the captain took a few of us kids to see the cockpit. Was a big event for us!
The sound from those small engines were stupendous!
Cool video. Thanks.
United Airlines 787 Captain
It was the beginning of the 1970s when I was a little boy and went to the seaside from Belgrade to Dubrovnik with my grandmother. At the time Yugoslav Airlines (JAT) already switched mainly to DC9 but our plane broke so we have to wait at Belgrade airport until dark to finally start our trip. Instead of the new DC9, they put us in some pretty worn Caravelle and on top of that we got into a severe storm with lightning and turbulence. I still have very vivid pictures in my head of the wind throwing us from side to side and lights flickering in the cabin full of cigarette smoke. Nevertheless, everything ends up well except we landed at Tivat airport instead of Dubrovnik.
That was my only flight with Caravelle and it didn't stay in good memory :-).
Many years later I realised what a wonderful plane that was and makes me proud that I may say that I was flying in that plane.
There is one JAT Caravelle (YU-AHB) parked in front of the museum at the Belgrade airport, maybe even "my" Caravelle, who knows...
Hahaha my first flight from Münster via Bremen to Tunis was also a caravelle of tunisair. The leg from Münster to Bremen was very stormy, thunder and rain . Nearly all passengers were vomiting ,the plane was shaking from one to the other side but I loved it.
Hard to imagine Yugoslavia buying airplanes from the west. Being a communist country at the time, they believe that an American built plane was more reliable than Soviet made planes.
@@frankdenardo8684 Yugoslavia a communist country? A socialist one maybe but never communist. China, Cuba, North Korea and USSR were communist at that time.
@@frankdenardo8684 the caravelle was french not american
@@theric66 The Caravelle was a western built plane.
The first time I flew in my life was in 1975 with a Sterling Caravelle from Jönköping to Rimini and back. I was then 24 years old and many good memories come to mind.
Maybe it was this one that you flew with. 😀
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@@Tbigum Thanks Thomas for the great video. The Super Caravelle will always be in my heart.
Back in 1980 we flew to Bulgaria In a sterling caravelle but can't remember if it was from Kastrup or Malmö Bulltofta but I do remember the pilots asking if any of us wanted to come and look at the cockpit. I was 15 then and thank you for the video as that's exactly what the plane looked like, we even got a Sterling bag 👍
Flew on a United Caravelle DesMoines to Chicago back in early 60’s… great plane, fast, quiet and easy to love.
I flew on Air Inter Caravelle back in the 90's often from Orly to Toulouse. Each and every time the plane was full of pilots headed to training in TLS and each time to pilots flew the plane like a military fighter ie hard banks, steep decents etc. One time a UAL pilot was seated next to me and started complaining that such maneuvers would not be tolerated by pax and pilots in the US. I laughed and said it made the flight memorable, besides the female cabin crew still wore white gloves as part of their uniform. It made the experience all the more memorable.
Wow.. almost arborne again ....such an amazing old bird. 😍💖💖💖💖💖💖
Makes me cry every time I see this speciel plane.
I flew so many times with with my mother in the Sterling Airways Super Caravelle SE210 when I was a child from 1970 -1980 ..the sound, the smell, the cabin...
The most elegant airplane ever...
Great job, congratulations. Good that one Caravelle is still running, as it is one of the most beautiful planes ever built. It deserves to be preserved. I would like to see it fly again.
And very quiet for that era
@@peterw4338 sorry, these jets had a distinct very high pitch that used to wake me up in the middle of the night landing at an airport near where I lived back in the early 60s (I’m an old man now).
Yeah, it's small enough to keep as a private jet!
A very nice looking plane.
@@tonys9413 that was before high-bypass jets... if any bypass at all. They were ALL noisy I suppose back then
In the 1960s, I often came to the airport just to watch the Caravelle take off. There was not and there is no more beautiful take-off of a passenger plane than the start of the Caravelle. At that time, she was still flying alone in the colors of Air France.
I couldn't believe my eyes when i was flying from Helsinki to Oslo via Stockholm,when I saw these Caravelles from about 500 feet. What a thrill!! I thought I was dreaming.
Wonderful nostalgia greetings from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 viva la france all air bus now
There's something so mechanically satisfying about a flight deck full of 'steam driven' instruments (as opposed to glass) - I think it's the same beauty I'd associate with a fine watch. I know glass is the future, but imagine if aircraft manufacturers started offering limited edition versions of a new 757 (for example) full of analogue gauges. God it'd be beautiful.
That will never happen.
@@zepter00 Well no, it'd be totally impractical as anything but a showboat - modern airspace is increasingly based on RNAV so unless you fancied programming a pseudo VOR/DME after every waypoint in a SID or STAR...
Unless you are the one fixing it. Glass cockpits for life!
That is a thing of beauty, thank you to everyone involved.
My last flight with Super Caravelle was il May 1991 from Rome FCO to Aleppo Syria, a direct flight operated by Syrian Air .
Thank you so much for sharing this video .
One of the most striking looking...and elegant aircraft's ever manufactured...and the sound of those Power plants.. superb.. thanks for sharing..!!
Its nose section was based on the DH Comet, another beauty.
I disagree, hower it is definitely up there and wish a similar design could reappear. DH 106, VC10, Concorde and the 707/DC8 are far more better looking.
@@bmc9504 You should add that this is just your opinion
@@bobswan6196 no, you should know by my username I'm an individual. Individuals have their own opinions.
Aircraft.
Congratulations to everyone who made possible to hear the Caravelle engines again!! See the caravelle fly again will be amazing
There's nothing to beat the sheer visceral scream of those first generation jets.
The Caravelle was the loudest plane of them all in the 1960's, you didn't even have to look up to call it.
Same front end as the comet
@@bingbong7316 the early 727's had to have been a close second - being under one of these on departure from Charlotte NC in the early 1960's?? The "Whisperjet" moniker was a joke.
As the history of aviation reveals, the Caravelle is one of the most stunningly beautiful aircraft of the 1960s to 1970s. Please, please save this semi-operational version and make it airworthy.
The Dassault Mercure had a similar interest level, but had no success only because a low range...
I wish it could be made airworthy as well, but I suspect modern safety standards would make that impossible. One of the reasons Concorde was taken out of operation was that they'd have to essentially redesign and retrofit the navigation/guidance system and several other major elements of its internals to meet the standards coming up in the mid-2000s. I'm sure it would be utterly cost-prohibitive to do the same for a single Caravelle; not to mention that doing so would utterly change the character of the cockpit. Sadly, that's true for many of the classic airliners of the early jet age.
@@JamesDavidWalley Cost prohibitive? Maybe. But plenty of even older aircraft are restored and flying today. They are not flying commercially of course -- but under another category (typically "experimental") and without having to make major upgrades to panels and systems (with some exceptions, such as adding modern radios). It's usually a question of IF the aircraft's hull can be made airworthy...and the cost to do so. Sadly, most are not good candidates.
Wow, looks amazing, and sounds even better! What a sight seeing a Caravelle taxing in 2021!!! magnificent!
Thanks so much!
What a catch!
I used to fly this plane 41 years ago on The French Army in Tahiti. Papeete - Hao and Papeete - Mururoa. An other life.
I do like the Caravelle.
The Caravelle was just a truly beautiful, if not very noisy, aeroplane, and just magic to be inside one. Absolutely wonderful to see SE-DAI still able to start up and taxi, and long may it be so. Thank you for this magnificent video. Still in good condition for a 55 year old airliner
Beatiful airplane with Rolls Royce Avon. Manufactured in France, in Spain in operated by Iberia, Aviaco, TAE, Transeuropa, Hispania in the 60,s and the 70,s
Beautiful. Back in the late 80s, some were used in the US for cargo. They are all gone now. Keep running her up and taxi every once in a while. She will last a long time.
While flying between Oslo and Helsinki via Arlanda, I saw this beauty and another parked together. I couldn't believe my eyes! I thought they were all gone. The Caravelle is truly the most beautiful airliner ever made. Unfortunately, I never got to fly on one, even when United flew them from Milwaukee, my hometown as a teen. It's amazing that they can keep it running.
Truly? That's a matter of opinion! Truth is that there were a number of beautiful airliners of that period. Personally I think the Super Constellation takes some beating.
@@DerekGM6 Of course, beauty is always in the eye of the beholder. Having flown as a child on the all versions of the Connie, I have to agree; Queen of the Golden Age of Flying. We even have a neon building here in Madison (KMSN) named "The Constellation."
The Caravelle is a beauty, but the Connie is the Queen. My brother's first jet flight--NY to CHI--was on the Caravelle.
@@donnafromnyc Lucky guy! I flew on the Connies on Eastern in 1st; wonderful childhood memories.
The Caravelle and the Connie are the most elegant pax jets ever created period.
the comet too
So glad I got to fly on many as a child.
Connie, jet?
Amen!
Though I still have a soft spot for the F27 Friendship. So many flights on it as a child.
As a young boy I used to fly in this plane many times. Loved the silhouette and sound.
Over the years, the Caravelle has received some criticism about short range. But two things stand out about this fine aircraft. It was a pioneer. It may have been the first jet aircraft to put the engines in the back, and more than anything else, it was BEAUTIFUL!!! It deserved a much better fate.
The grandmother of all of the rear engined airliners. VC 10s, 727s, DC9s,
MD 80 series, etc.
Depending on model some Caravelles had a very decent range. We flew from Stockholm to Cyprus, that is about 1200nm = 1800 miles. Took close to 5 hours if the winds were unfavorable. We used the P&W engined Caravelles 10B, always full as it was charter flights.
Sterling Airways flights from Bangkok, Colombo made between 2-3 stops before continuing to Copenhagen
we flew on a Caravelle in the late 60's, what a ride that was!
The most beautiful plane from the jet era.
Used to watch United Caravelles at Pittsburgh Int'l Airport back in the 50's and 60's. Of course back in those days you could walk right out on the observation deck for a close up view of them approaching and leaving the gate. I remember those Caravelle engines were real screamers. When you saw one approaching you covered your ears.
When I was 4-5 years old I flew with my mom on one of those from Chicago to PIT! It's more of a faint memory of a memory at this point, but I can picture the plane at the gate on a rainy Chicago night and the distinctive windows.
It makes me crazy, why it was necessary to remove the obsevational decks? What the purpose? National security again? It was a great fun for me when i was a child to observe the movements of those aircraft, it was do exciting! It was like paradice for me...and now nothing. bastads
That observation deck was closed well before the 80’s. It’s a real shame as the old greater Pitt airport had a lot of cool places in it that had been closed off to the public. I still remember the heavy jet exhaust smell from the underground arrival pickup area.
@@slavasandsglam bastrds. Camera photo go pro celphone, no more obsservation
.. people only see the duty free airport stores and seats
I had my first flight in a Caravelle from Barcelona to Brussels in 1966.
General De Gaul had a pure white Caravelle. I saw it when he arrived in Germany to see the German chancellor in I think 1967.
It looked magnificent
I really do hope that your Caravelle could stay safe and kept alive. Caravelle is so important piece of aviation history 👍🇸🇪👍
Flew with one of these back in 1981, A Sterling machine from Kastrup to Herakleon, Crete. That was 40 years ago, and the Caravelle was considered an old aircraft even then. And if you were unlucky enough to have a seat near the rear of the cabin, you were in for a NOISY ride. Beautiful looking little machines, though, the Caravelles.
I remember flying sitting in the rear seats of a Boeing 737 ( 200) fitted with 1 Rolls Royce engine on each wing & that made a hell of a racket .
@@maskedavenger2578 It was even worse in the Caravelle, though. By the time the 737's came along, low bypass turbofan engines were in use. Still not quiet by any means, but still... In the Caravelle, though, it was still first generation turbo jets. It was basically a 1950s aircraft through and through. And, to make it even worse, the engines sat mounted as you see them here, directly to the fuselage. Boeing had at least mounted their engines on pods underneath the wings. Those poor souls in the rear of the cabin must have been absolutely bat shit after a three hour flight. I was lucky, as I sat allmost in the front. But the only toilet on board was at the rear. And that noise back there... Bloody flippin' Nora!
@@Innerspace100 Never traveled in a Caravelle only up near the front of a BAC 1/ 11 which was a similar type of aircraft only with a T tail .The 737 ‘s I travelled on were the earlier versions fitted with very noisy RR turbo jets that spat flames on take off .The smoothest flight I ever had was on a Comet 4 c ,it was smoother than the 707 & had some seats facing each other .
-200's with Rolls Royce engines? That's new to me. I've allways been under the impression that they were fitted with Pratt & Whitney JT8D's from the factory, and those were low bypass turbofans...
The Comet was a beautiful looking aircraft(!). Had they only fitted the round windows from the beginning, civil aviation history might have been very different...
@@Innerspace100 The British airlines junked the cheap Pratt & Whitney paraffin burners fitted on Boeing’s for proper Rolls Royce engines ,they even looked better suited to the streamlined shape of the Boeing airliners .The only thing the Comet needed was a more swept back tail plane to match the wings .once it was sorted .
I noticed the fuel gauges were reading empty but nice to see such an elderly commercial jet still with all its bits and able to spool units engines. I hope they manage to keep it that way instead of just another inanimate museum piece
At 4.00min you can see the tanks are reading 40%
@@Nielzep the fuel gauges were lbs used not how much fuel the tanks had - I thought exactly the same at first !
She was one of two ex SAS aircraft modified and operated by the Swedish Airforce until 1999 as ELINT aircraft until replaced by modified Gulfstream IVSP aircraft'.The other one of the two is in the Swedish Airforce Museum.
Congratulations👏👏👏 on saving this beautiful caravel! I worked, Air Inter, on the caravelle 12 ...❤ as an online maintenance mechanic..She was, even more beautiful..👍😉😊
7:02 not everyday you see a Caravelle from the cockpit of a Caravelle and a MD-80 :O
Thanks for keeping this old bird alive! I read from somewhere that the other Caravelle that can be seen is being sent to Finland for restoration.
How wonderful is to see people that cares classic airliners.
I’m a retired Flight Dispatcher for United Airlines and got to ride from EWR to ORD. A FACTOID: from 30,000 ft both engines at idle, the aircraft could glide 130 miles (so the manual says).
Absolument unique au monde.
Caravelle reprend vie.
Merveilleuse machine.
Particulièrement belle.
Je l ai vu décoller piste nord .sud a lan bihoué .. Lorient
Ca décoiffe a kervilly ... petit village dans l axe de la piste.. 👍👍
I used to fly on the Caravelle as a boy in the late 60's early 70's from Nice to London Heathrow and back. What stuck in my mind the most was that the seats halfway through the plane (at the wing) were facing backwards from the wing to the cockpit, IIRC. This was on Air France....
Anyone else remember how gorgeous the stewardesses were back then?
I've have had the privelege to get a tour and a 'no restriction photo session' with this individual. It was amazing to see it up close and personal, but we never got the chance to experience it come to life like this. Wonderful too see and hear it like this, great video!
Do support the Le Caravelle Club so that they can (at least) keep it from deteriorating.
My first flight on a jet was in early Jan 1965 Milwaukee to Cleveland on United. Then I had to transfer to a DC-6B for my next leg to Baltimore. It was the return of my first trip home after starting a job after college. My outbound trip, intended for Milwaukee landed in O'Hare, the only plane to land at ORD in 24 hours because of pea soup fog. That was on a United Vickers Viscount, a red eye, three passengers and a whole lot of mail in the seats for Christmas mail.
...I remember the when United operated Caravelles into Milwaukee, they were primarily used on the Milwaukee Cleveland Newark route. Indeed they were loud as they had the old RR Avon turbojets. Later versions of the Caravelle (10B 11R and 12) were fitted with JT-8Ds. TWA would have been the second operator in the States with the model 10A powered be GE aft fan jets, but financial troubles caused them to cancel the order.
_Ahh, the unmistakable _*_almond-shaped_*_ windows!_ 💙
The true sound of aviation 🥲😋
It is quite simply an exquisite aircraft. I remember them well. SUD Aviation, pure class….. and I’m English…..
Et de nombreux français aiment les ASTON MARTIN , ami .
En juin 1977 Strasbourg-London Heathrow en Caravelle pour un Weekend à Londres(superbe atterrissage au coucher du soleil) et en mai 1974 vol Strasbourg-Nürnberg-Strasbourg pour la journée pour visiter l’usine Grundig (offert par Grundig aux techniciens et revendeurs, j’avais 17 ans seulement car mon père m’avait laissé son ticket, super souvenir) Au retour vers Strasbourg en soirée, violent orage et turbulences juste avant de se poser avec les réacteurs qui hurlent, j’étais assis tout au fond à gauche à 1 mètre environ de la turbine, inoubliable expérience 🏆 , puis mon oncle m’a ramené à Colmar avec sa Ford Granada . Merci d’avoir vécu tout ça !
Gotta love that flap gauge that’s old school. This is a truly beautiful airplane and hopefully they keep it restored. The precursor to the MD80.
Fabulous footage and a credit to the people who keep this beautiful bird alive
As much as I love the DC-9 and MD-8xs when I learn about Caravelle, this beauty is were all started.
Correct, thanks to Douglas the Caravelle DNA still survives in the last DC-9, MD-80/90 and Boeing 717 still operating.
In the 1950s Douglas was entitled to produce Caravelles under license. Instead of that, they reverse engineered the prototype and start producing their own quasi identical DC-9 which will later evolve into the MD-80/ 90 family until the MD-95 was eventually rebranded 717 by Boeing.
DC-8 is the most beautiful airliner ever.
My first flight was on a Caravelle from Helsinki to London when Finnair had them.
Fantastic! I was lucky enough to fly on a Caravelle in August of 1974 when Court Line went bust and I was stranded somewhere in Spain on a package holiday from the UK. As a kid and an aviation enthusiast, it was amazing to fly over in an enormous, beautiful, modern L1011 TriStar painted two shades of bright pink, and fun to fly back in a noisy, rickety old Caravelle, which was basically a De Havilland Comet with a different engine configuration.
I remember the Caravelles from the 1960’s. There were _LOUD_ screamers!
Beautifully cared for. The flight deck is cleaner than most airliners in service today!
Modern flight decks are not bad to look at. But you can't beat the old analogue switches and dials set up.
Second most perfectectly proportioned and beautiful airliner. I remember as a kid flying on them in the Middle East...the windows had a wonderful shape for a great view. I miss those airliners with ventral steps, I always insisted on climbing them if available.
Brings back memories when working as a ground handler at Rotterdam Airport in the 1970s, when they were running a regular charter service to the Canary Islands (can't remember which company though!). Beautiful lines!
Dat was met Transavia. Ik heb die periode nog gewerkt bij Aerohandling
@@josborsboom5092je hebt nog een goed geheugen, het mijne is weg! Werkte ook bij Aerohandling, mijn vader (Aerocontacts BV) had destijds Aerohandling opgezet in ik (samen met mijn broer Reinier) ben daar begonnen met het schuren en verven van het materieel!
@@DutchieDownUnder , Jou, Reinier kan ik me nog goed herinneren. Er was toen een directeur Ko Eger en een bedrijfsleider Madiol. De Bruin was toen chef TD
En Anthon Smit en een zekere Wanner de duty officiers. We hebben daar hard gewerkt maar ook heel veel gelachen. Er was een uitstekende sfeer.
P.s. Ik woon sinds 21 jaar in Twente.
@@josborsboom5092 Ko Eger ken ik ook nog, alsmede De Bruin (zat altijd door de afval container te graaien op zoek naar overblijfsels van de catering truck!). Anthon Smit ken ik ook, heb een aantal malen met hem gevlogen (hij had z'n PPL+) maar was vreemd want hij had een tic. Sfeer was uitstekend, en Reinier is later zelf Duty Officer geworden. Is na een aantal jaren weg gegaan en werd toen Cargo Manager voor SIA op Schiphol. Heeft later nog een bedrijf gestart vanaf Rotterdam met zijn (destijdige) vrouw (Faravia) maar is nu al een aantal jaren European Cargo Manager voor Atlas.
Ik ben in 1980 voor een vakantie naar Australie gegaan, en kwam 1.5 jaar later terug naar Rotterdam om wat dingen te regelen. Heb toen nog een tijdje gewerkt voor RotterdamAir, maar ben eind 1984 weer naar Australie gegaan waar ik nu nog steeds woon. FYI www.call-eric.com.au & www.aashay.com.au
Mis nog steeds de luchtvaart, en ben nog steeds helemaal gek van vliegtuigen etc.
Flew on these in the Sixties, and a handsome plane agreed, but in the Seventies worked on them as a baggage handler, and for that it was the worst plane ever - unless you were a potholer!
I remember United flying those out of Cleveland in the 60s. NOISY !
One of the most beautiful planes to ever grace the skies.
The Caravelle was a great looking aeroplane, one of my favourites, thank you.
I love the old ringing sound. There’s literally a bell mechanism that’s making that noise.
What ball mechanism?
Fantastic video
When I was a kid back in the 60’s I was flying (as a passenger) almost exclusively on board one of Thai Airways International’s Caravelles. It was such a beautiful aircraft. My late Dad, who was a jet fighter pilot instructor, told me then that the locations of the engines at the rear mean lower noise in the cabin and also less vibration. I could feel that this was true after the airline switched to a fleet of DC-8.
Love the clarification that you flew as a passenger, and not a pilot! heheheh
what an amazing story! Must have been very nice to fly during that time. I mean, modern planes are safer, more comfortable, quieter... but the older ones have so much charm!
@@OscarScheepstra_Artemis_ I guess the airline wouldn’t hire a 13-year-old pilot even in those heady times.
I was flying with my family on the Bangkok-Manila route, sometimes with a stopover in Hong Kong. The Caravelle would take almost 4 hours to cover the BKK-MNL route. TG’s onboard service was most memorable.
Nice to see an operational Caravelle at Arlanda. When I was young, I flew on both an SAS and an Air France Caravelle out of Arlanda. Good memories!
Absolutely mesmerizing!!!!! What a delightful Old Lady 🌹🌹🌹
Can't believe I'm actually seeing one of those startimg up! Thanks mate!
Wow the Caravelle was my first airliner that I got on a holiday flight back in 1972! What a beauty!
Very interesting footage of the Caravelle. A beautiful and stylish aircraft which I often saw landing and taking off when I was plane spotting in my youth. Would love to see it airborne. Thank you. ✈️
The modern aircrafts are like clones...no beauty no design, no personality...very sad, boring design. Only utility purposes.
Im very glad and thanckfull for keeping this legend alive! Wish you all the best
What a beautifull airplane !!! So reliable !!!
Man she would be a beautiful custom aircraft. The lines are gorgeous. Put new fuel efficient engines and redo the interior.
You might want to digitize the cockpit and upgrade the hydraulics……or not!
yes, she was particularly beautiful and sleek. Unique with the egg shape windows too.
There is still some people alive knowing how to operate Caravelle??? Awesome!!
Lovely plane flew a few times on this wonderful aircraft with Sabena, SAS, Air France, Swissair, and Royal Jordanian.
Fantastic vid of an absolutely beautiful plane! thanks for sharing this
Good old Caravelle 😍✈👍 Excellent video 👍
History coming alive; fantastic!
Thanks for the great footage
A milestone in aviation history. Thank you for sharing.
The last probably forever of the beautiful aircraft. Beautiful to look at, delight to fly, and handled like a clean glider.
I remember flying on those as a child. Seemed exotic even then compared to the usual Tridents etc.
I recall the same experience when I was 7-10 yo.
That was half a century ago.
Still the most beautiful and svelte visual design ever penned IMHO (Always loved the tailplane extension along the top of the fuselage) . Great video! Have fond memories of many of the Alitalia I-DAX* @ Manchester Ringway as a pre-teen spotter in the very late 60's. She needs to be repainted and sent on a world tour, so we can all see her in all her glory!
I remember seeing Caravelles at the United maintenance hangar at Denver Stapleton in the early '70's. Beautiful bird.
In my heard for ever, unforgettable! awedsome.
The Caravelle was the first jet aircraft to operate from Chicago's other (and much smaller) airport back in the 60s. It had a unique sound; you knew one was flying over without even seeing it.
Greeting from the Great White North 🇨🇦
I remember seeing these planes in books as a child I just love how they incorporate the engine’s.
My Dad would take us to the local airport for take off. My first dream was to be a pilot about age 8 but the dream I could never materialize it. As I discovered I’m colour blind and dyslexia.
Now pushing 60 glad to see this beautiful classic aircraft.
Cheers 🇨🇦
Wonderful plane thanks
The plane of my first flight in the beginning of the eighties, I was 6.
Now I am working for Airbus
Thanks a lot for this video, i worked on the last Caravelles in France and Suitzerland (EAS, AIR PROVENCE, AIR TOULOUSE) for NDT and PSIS Inspections, it was a wonderfull aircraft! Thank you for this share
I never thought I would ever hear turbojet engines come to life again reminds me of the old cargo 707s 727 and 737 200 at Manchester Airport
mon first jet flight it was in a Caravelle by TAP on th end of sixties Merci pour le bom souvenir Félicitations de Lisbonne
Its got beautiful sleek lines, just like the Eiffle Tower. I can picture one doing Paris - Beirut, Casablanca or Brazzaville in the 1960's, early 70's. Those were the early jet flying days.
Yes. I did Casablanca/Paris in 1962
Incredibly "Pretty" airplane. Thanks for sharing.
I remember flying on a UTA Caravelle during the 1970's between the New Hebrides and New Caledonia. Amazing that one of these planes is still running.
Ah, the Caravell was the first plane I was ever on in 1987, Glasgow to Pula. I will never forget going up the air stair at the tail.