Flew on a United Airlines Caravelle from Toledo to Chicago on the first leg of being on my way to Vietnam in 1968. The cargo door came open after takeoff and we made an emergency landing back in Toledo. Not a good beginning! LOL. It was small inside and really a piece of crap. The DC-9 is and was much better.
I worked for a company that flew the last passenger carrying Caravelle in the US circa 1978-1984 Now parked at Van Nuys N98KT. United Airlines had a few before the B727 came along. Great plane and a show stopper at every FBO we stopped at. . Still some Caravelles in the EU and SA running freight. The RR Avons were not very fuel effecient to say the least let alone noisy. You knew we were there !
For those, who didn't get the chance to be aboard such an aircraft, s/he can go to Copenhagen, Denmark. In the proximity of Copenhagen in a museum is a Caravelle in full SAS colours, with interior. Plus you can walk around in it (as of 2004).
@granskare DC 9 Is a almost a Caravelle but, without Caravelle's default (low horses power engines and poor capacity for passengers luggages for exemple). Sorry my english is too poor for a long writing
After americans wanted to kill Caravelle, Concorde and the Europeen aviation industry, Europeens realized that their union only can defeat the yankee project to dominate the sky.
@merkenstein I'm an American, and I AGREE with you!!! I'm up to here with monster trucks, cheap beer, "Extreme", "Can you handle it", etc. In our country, it's about ATTITUDE not the CONTENT. PLEASE do know, that there are many, many fine Americans who are enlightened, love their country in the "Correct" way, and love and respect people from nations the world over. Sometimes, with the comments at YT, you'd think we were in a shooting war with Great Britain..AWFUL..
@merkenstein That is a rather narrow minded and stereotypical view. Unfortunately the loudest people are usually not the best representatives of a population. Just because you see a bunch of people acting a fool on TV, doesn't mean you should believe that everyone is like that just based on face value, Doing so makes you just as bad as the people you claim to condemn.
@glup2glup Your comments are so true, I wonder what would of happened if Boeing's SST would of made it off the ground, they would of expected an order from every major airline throughout the world.
@glup2glup I guess you aren't taking into consideration the BAC 1-11 which was flown by several US carriers- Braniff, Allegheny, Mohawk, Aloha, American, Cascade, Florida Express, Pacific Express, USAir flew them until the late 1990's.
@chachadynamite BAC1-11 was made some long time after Caravelle. So it used better technology for more powerfull engine and other systems. This made it popular at the US.
I had the very first flight in my life in a Caravelle (Alitalia, Düsseldorf to Rimini or so). Unfortunately, I was just ten months old and I have no memories.
@pump066 Aaaah! Citroen! We knew a family in Italy (close to Bologna). The father owned a Citroen DS in the correct colour (black, of course). From then, back in the mid-seventies, to now my all-over favourite car.
As a passenger, this was a great aircraft to fly in. Of course it was when flying was an event and customer service was to be expected. unlike today where investors have ruined the airline business as well as so many other US/international companies. Now you are more comfortable in any car rather than dealing with every ones' carry-on mess. We used to check everything except coats and hand bags. Now it's like being on a bus in a third word country! What a long fall. Thanks for posting!
I had the chance to fly on the Caravelle several times as a UA employee. Sweet ride, but a pain to ground handle. It had cargo bins behind the main cabin and we used a belt loader up the rear steps to on/off load. The belly bins weren't much better.
Love the Caravelle, it would make a great private jet with updated engines.
Hilarious how SUD thought they would be able to compete with Boeing and Douglas for very long though. Had they never seen the massive American facilities, not to mention the marketing capabilities? Boom, the DC-9 crushed the market about 5 years after the Caravelle's launch, and the 737 joined it a couple years after that.
Flew on a United Airlines Caravelle from Toledo to Chicago on the first leg of being on my way to Vietnam in 1968. The cargo door came open after takeoff and we made an emergency landing back in Toledo. Not a good beginning! LOL. It was small inside and really a piece of crap. The DC-9 is and was much better.
rickyt43515 4 weeks ago
the french are excelled at building really good aircraft.
Really good design's and system's.
Really handsome airplane.
kirkconway 1 month ago
A beauty !! Nice lines !!
squadman33 4 months ago
AWESOME!!!
Eric2221 4 months ago
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I worked for a company that flew the last passenger carrying Caravelle in the US circa 1978-1984 Now parked at Van Nuys N98KT. United Airlines had a few before the B727 came along. Great plane and a show stopper at every FBO we stopped at. . Still some Caravelles in the EU and SA running freight. The RR Avons were not very fuel effecient to say the least let alone noisy. You knew we were there !
dcrockett52 4 months ago
ty for this!
whitedemai 4 months ago
well zje car is better my youtube name is called after it
caravelleize 4 months ago
For those, who didn't get the chance to be aboard such an aircraft, s/he can go to Copenhagen, Denmark. In the proximity of Copenhagen in a museum is a Caravelle in full SAS colours, with interior. Plus you can walk around in it (as of 2004).
CanadianMapleLeaf01 4 months ago
it sure looks good in the United livery
smeltedcheese 5 months ago
Really attractive plane.. I love triangle shaped windows.
ffairlane57 8 months ago
@ffairlane57 In France triangle shaped windows were called "OLIDA" . When caravelle was a new aireplane
"OLIDA" was in Fance à famous....ham ( yes pork!) in a triangle tin box!
philippedu13 7 months ago
@philippedu13 Great info, thanks!!
mcdonnell220 7 months ago
@ffairlane57 Marketing referred to them as "teardrop" windows. :)
alienhuman 5 months ago
I believe the Douglas DC-9 came into being some time after the break up of the agreement with Sud...strange, eh?
granskare 9 months ago
@granskare DC 9 Is a almost a Caravelle but, without Caravelle's default (low horses power engines and poor capacity for passengers luggages for exemple). Sorry my english is too poor for a long writing
philippedu13 7 months ago
@philippedu13 no problem; I understand what you are saying...thanks for viewing
granskare 7 months ago
@philippedu13 Maybe to the naked eye, but there are few if any similarities beyond the fact they both had two engines.
alienhuman 5 months ago
The Champagne bottle did not break?!
Byron10301 10 months ago
1:37 Rich ass people.
NextLvlProductions 1 year ago
After americans wanted to kill Caravelle, Concorde and the Europeen aviation industry, Europeens realized that their union only can defeat the yankee project to dominate the sky.
Thanks to AIRBUS.
glup2glup 1 year ago
@glup2glup
For the Americans, everything is war.
They are terrible. Concorcde will ever be a knive in their flesh!
And what all they tried, to avoid landings of Concorde in USA.
merkenstein 1 year ago
@merkenstein I'm an American, and I AGREE with you!!! I'm up to here with monster trucks, cheap beer, "Extreme", "Can you handle it", etc. In our country, it's about ATTITUDE not the CONTENT. PLEASE do know, that there are many, many fine Americans who are enlightened, love their country in the "Correct" way, and love and respect people from nations the world over. Sometimes, with the comments at YT, you'd think we were in a shooting war with Great Britain..AWFUL..
mcdonnell220 1 year ago 2
@merkenstein That is a rather narrow minded and stereotypical view. Unfortunately the loudest people are usually not the best representatives of a population. Just because you see a bunch of people acting a fool on TV, doesn't mean you should believe that everyone is like that just based on face value, Doing so makes you just as bad as the people you claim to condemn.
MyleneJ 9 months ago
@glup2glup Hey before you get too uppity about Airbus rememeber that Airbus benifits from government subsidys something Boeing operates without
sfrenchhorn07 1 year ago
@sfrenchhorn07 9/15/2010 Geneva, WTO concluded that aid of US gouvernement to Boeing violated international rules.
glup2glup 1 year ago
@glup2glup Your comments are so true, I wonder what would of happened if Boeing's SST would of made it off the ground, they would of expected an order from every major airline throughout the world.
tonightwefly 1 year ago
@glup2glup I guess you aren't taking into consideration the BAC 1-11 which was flown by several US carriers- Braniff, Allegheny, Mohawk, Aloha, American, Cascade, Florida Express, Pacific Express, USAir flew them until the late 1990's.
chachadynamite 10 months ago
@chachadynamite BAC1-11 was made some long time after Caravelle. So it used better technology for more powerfull engine and other systems. This made it popular at the US.
glup2glup 10 months ago
I had the very first flight in my life in a Caravelle (Alitalia, Düsseldorf to Rimini or so). Unfortunately, I was just ten months old and I have no memories.
eltfell 1 year ago
@eltfell I did my first jet travel in a Caravelle and in the 60's it was used by almost all
companies.Flew with SAS,Finnair,Sterling,Austrian,Alitalia,Sabena and AirFrance and
the Caravelle was wonderful to fly.Still remember the seats being like a Citroen-armchairs.
pump066 1 month ago
@pump066 Aaaah! Citroen! We knew a family in Italy (close to Bologna). The father owned a Citroen DS in the correct colour (black, of course). From then, back in the mid-seventies, to now my all-over favourite car.
eltfell 1 month ago
I flew on the last United Caravelle Flight. Thanks Dad!
timtoolman426 1 year ago
As a passenger, this was a great aircraft to fly in. Of course it was when flying was an event and customer service was to be expected. unlike today where investors have ruined the airline business as well as so many other US/international companies. Now you are more comfortable in any car rather than dealing with every ones' carry-on mess. We used to check everything except coats and hand bags. Now it's like being on a bus in a third word country! What a long fall. Thanks for posting!
westminster860 2 years ago 2
I had the chance to fly on the Caravelle several times as a UA employee. Sweet ride, but a pain to ground handle. It had cargo bins behind the main cabin and we used a belt loader up the rear steps to on/off load. The belly bins weren't much better.
The aircraft had a climb that was excellent.
lakewoodil 2 years ago
Thanks for the memories
joluqa 2 years ago
Wow...another amazing video. Thank you.
coolspindrift 2 years ago
I was lucky enough to fly on Air France, Alitalia, Swissair, and Finnair Caravelles. My last flight was on Air France "Artois", F-BHRE in 1973.
Good stuff.
schneegeist 2 years ago
Ol' Caravelle did pretty well considering it's competition. ~200 orders seems to be the average for pre-Airbus aircraft.
scaremenga 2 years ago
Tem até o Caravelle 3 da Varig. Massa
adenilson707 2 years ago
What a beautiful airplane, and "Caravelle" is one of the best names for a plane ever.
Happy to say I flew one once, but I was five years old and don't remember much. Maybe I'll try hypnosis and recover some (good) memories!
TFinSF 2 years ago
Love the Caravelle, it would make a great private jet with updated engines.
Hilarious how SUD thought they would be able to compete with Boeing and Douglas for very long though. Had they never seen the massive American facilities, not to mention the marketing capabilities? Boom, the DC-9 crushed the market about 5 years after the Caravelle's launch, and the 737 joined it a couple years after that.
I hope SUD enjoyed the ride while they could.
rockyPants4000 2 years ago
Oops, and I forgot about the 727 which actually came out just before the DC-9.
The competition was just too massive for the poor Caravelle and SUD to compete.
Still a nifty classic aircraft though!
rockyPants4000 2 years ago
amazing thank you for the video.
yannayl 2 years ago