The best part of the video is the last scene, where the kid with the aircraft model is walking up and admiring the aircraft. We have this incredible 'safety culture' nowadays, to the point that I fly for over 10 years now but my kids have never been able to walk under an airliner yet. I hope that kid in the video is now a pilot too. Fantastic video. Many thanks!

@DanielBrown-sn9op

2 жыл бұрын

Its not a "safety" culture, its a "lawsuit" culture where profit is a god.✈

flew with these planes for years , from Kinshasa to Kananga and Mbuji Mayi - Fontshi Airlines had 2 of them , flown by French pilots. Love the lines of that plane , but they were very noisy and landings were tough. The plane had a convenient backdoor very useful in the bush , like the Boeing 727. I was told that plane could hover as no other jet could. Because of that they were very sensitive to thermal upwind which happened a lot in Zaire and as a passenger you had to cope with a lot of turbulence and long air pockets slides. Back now, i think i was crazy to flight aboard these planes on daily basis, they were barely maintained, some flew with only one hydraulic circuit working, and you could see, feel and hear the metal fatigued close to dangerous limits.

Great!!!!! Love to see how laid back the Africans are!!!! I love the shot of the little boy with his model aeroplane....I wonder did he become something in aviation?..........Flew in Zimbabwe 4 years ago internal flight on a 737 series 200....so spacious inside compared to todays "cattle truck" flights.......and the crew and other passengers so happy and friendly.....I even walked out to the plane with the female captain a tiny lady but she flew a visual approach into Vic Falls airport with no problem.........

Been spending 2 years in Gabon ... Tout est bon au Gabon ! I miss Africa so much ! Evthg is so simple and humble over there ! Europe etc is full of selfishism and virtualism ... the freedom is still in Africa ! Keep it up ! 💪🏼🤝🏼✌🏼

Souvenirs...! J'ai eu la chance de voler sur Caravelle en 1963, 1965 et 1967 sur la ligne Bordeaux-Alger...Ce sont les meilleurs vols que j'ai fait...J'ai volé aussi (bien plus tard) sur Dassault Mercure et sur Airbus A-320 mais je n'ai pas retrouvé le même confort ( manque de place aux jambes, décollages plus "brutaux" . Dans la Caravelle, tout se faisait en douceur... C'était un avion merveilleux qui me laisse des souvenirs impérissables... .

The beautiful Lady of the Sky

Good landing with speed brakes and reverser on before touchdown. Very cool.

@rkan2

5 жыл бұрын

No go-around on that :P

@passengersplace

4 жыл бұрын

The wings are particularly susceptible to ground effect, and you can easily use up half of the runway floating at 10ft above the ground if you don't force the plane onto the tarmac.

@ervinthompson6598

3 жыл бұрын

@@passengersplace interesting to deploy reverse thrust in flight ; a lot of jets have a “squat switch” on the gear that will not allow reverse to be engaged until the gear is compressed.

More of first gen jets pls! Caravelle, F-28, Trident, BAC 1-11! Love this!

Love the hand-cleaning... proud of their baby!

@kristerkarlehem3335

4 жыл бұрын

Lots of oil leak. Pax do not like to watch oil leaks prior dep....

Incredible footage - such a beautiful aircraft.

I never believed that Caravelles were still flying until 2005. But I flew to Africa, with behind me in the cabin, chickens in cages, bicycles...

That landing is extremely smooth and impressive! Short primitive airfield.

I have flown into Oyem twice as a pilot very lush and green....I remember it was a VIP flight he gave us a box of Belgian Chocolates delicious.

The Caravelle! Just stumbled on this video and lapped it up quick! Had flown on these beuts back in the 70s, with Indian Airlines. Never could forget those majestic PW engine sounds! In this video too could hear the reverse thrust! Just wow! Hope they fly for ever.....

Superbe, quel avion mythique, magnifique !

beautiful aircraft.... wonderful flight.... nice video! congrats

My first ride on a pure jet was on a Caravelle, Jan 1965, Milwaukee-Cleveland. In Cleveland I had to transfer to a DC-6B what a comedown. It was one of the Caravelles United Airlines used for a few years.

La belle Caravelle! Still, IMHO, the most stylish aircraft design ever penned

Guy at 0:23 "oh, they re filming me, let's clean that engine with that piece of cloth, so it looks like i am doing something important" hahaha - When i was a kid, i flew a couple of times on the Fokker F-28 with Air Gabon from Libreville to Lastourville and Franceville...good memories...Awesome video, keep those classics coming.

I love this video! It is certainly quite historical, I miss the Caravelle :(

Beautiful aircraft!

Flew the Caravel from Barcelona to Rome in 1967. It remained the quietest, most comfortable flight I’d experienced up until the A-380 came along.

GREAT VID, WHAT A CLASSIC AIRCRAFT!!!

Old but Gold, another fantastic video, keep up the good work.

Thank you Justplane!!!!!

I wish air Gabon was still a thing in nowadays

Amazing aircraft. Please more of those videos. thx

Great footage. Love the young lads with the toy plane looking up at the real thing - wonder if they are pilots now?

🇫🇷 la caravelle un avion mythique de l industrie aéronautique française

Красота какая....

This was the last commercially operated caravelle. Sadly it crashed while inbound for Goma in Congo. The pilots accidently took the wrong airport with a parallel runway a mile apart over the border in Rwanda.Runway was too short and the aircraft skidded of the rwy. Still present there. No fatalities

@williamcarnero9595

Жыл бұрын

Is it the one at aero beach entebbe?

@williamcarnero9595

Жыл бұрын

Never mind I think it was 3D-KIK

Thanks for the video

I have never seen anyone polish a plane. Cool.

Great video !

Awesome!

The Caravelle was the best airplane at that time.I have flown her four times.

Los volé en Ecuador, en San, y Saeta, caravelle IV, en Quito, Guayaquil, y Guayaquil-Panamá. en los 70's.

I think this is the first time I see a plane being embarked/disembarked from the starboard side.

Merci d’avoir mis en ligne ce document ! Pour information, à découvrir sur la chaîne KZread : « PHIL DE RAIL » la vidéo : « La Caravelle figée ». Et si l’avion Caravelle m’était conté…

Very interesting..

So interesting to see (again) , how the Comet 4 forward fuselage looked on the Caravelle , it was probably the prettiest part on the Comet, then the French made a truely beautiful aeroplane for it to grace. When growing up in East Africa , these were a common sight in the 1950’s ....great footage....

J'adore...

Ainda voa? No meu tempo de aviação, nos anos 60 e 70, o Caravelle era top de linha no Brasil!

@canaldomarquinho8926

2 жыл бұрын

Infelizmente não! Se acidentou em agosto de 2004, perca total!

A beautiful airplane! It's a shame, that it crashed 5 years later in Rwanda :-(

Classic plane, wings of the past!

Great to see this old bird fly!❤️👍

@justplanes

2 жыл бұрын

For sure, thank you

magnifique avion !! bientôt sur simulateur, p3d v4 . vivement

Great video the manual final approach was very interesting 🤓🤔,no computer 🖥️💻 their just the pulse of the pilot.

Real y nice Video

I flew on a United Caravelle back in the 1960's.

Beautiful jet.

@justplanes

2 жыл бұрын

It sure is!

Крутое видео. и самолет. Приборная доска вся аналоговая) Перед взлетом самолет буквально вылизывают. Интересно смотреть такое

Pre departure and arrival at the apron, wow probably common during those days in these countries.

Quando eu era menino meu pai trabalhava na várias ele falava deste avião muito bonito

Older than dirt!

Haven't seen one in forever! Still a great looking bird.

Unbelievable they just made the length of that runway! This aircrew have their Caravelle sorted out, must be a handfull around the world who can fly this classic. Spareparts? I think engine parts are no problem, as Pratt & Whittney would still have them or make them. Hydraulics also can be rebuild or parts made, the fuel and hydralic pumps could be substituted with current ones if the Caravelle scrap dealer has none. Same with avionics.

@marcusdamberger

2 жыл бұрын

Airbus pulled the type rating on the Caravelle around 2005, so it can't be legally flown anymore, even if you have a good example. Though I've seen some more recent videos of one being taxied around for flight sim audio recordings. It probably could have flown a few more years, but when the parts supplier, in this case Airbus (who eventually inherited Sud Aviation's type certificates and designs) decided not to support a plane designed in the 1950's, there is not much you can do about it. Your plane will eventually need a part you don't have, and Airbus won't sell it to you, even if they have it on the shelf. Plus I suspect Airbus by 2005 had limited parts availably, and whoever had made those parts probably had not made them in 30 years.

Very elegant plane though has seen better days .

J'aime

Só rezar pai nosso 100 vezes 🙏🙏🙏🙏

9:10 future pilot!

Did anyone notice how well the passengers are dressed ? So much different if you take a look on the flights in Europe of today.

More of this. ......when I was 7 years old....got to fly on a SuperCaravell..... Scared as Hell.....

@peterkoch1676

4 жыл бұрын

Same with me about the same age, my family spent the holidays in Italy so it was an Alitalia Caravelle. I remember being fascinated about the triangular windows

For those who don't know, this same aircraft in the video had an accident in August 2004, resulting in a total loss of the aircraft. Sad end to such an iconic aircraft.

Es una versión repotenciada!! El original era extraordinariamente ruidoso!!! Noisy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The French said "screw the rest of the world we speak French in our cockpit!"

@passengersplace

4 жыл бұрын

...until an MD-80 broadsided a Shorts 330 on takeoff, as a result of the pilots not being aware of each others' intentions when the ATC incorrectly cleared them onto the same runway.

@arcticflying

3 жыл бұрын

So do we in Québec !

e lindo

Wooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Not much room for error on that destination runway.

These birds were monsters in the air when properly maintained.

@RLTtizME

5 жыл бұрын

There was never a Caravelle that could be maintained.

@jameskariuki2170

5 жыл бұрын

Haha i meant classic planes in general which could serve for more than 30 yrs.

@ant2312

2 жыл бұрын

@@RLTtizME wibble

@RLTtizME

2 жыл бұрын

@@ant2312 Limey slang doesn't cut it here Anthony. This is an American Platform.

The left side window looks ajar!

I flew on Swissair Caravelles in the 1960s - great aircraft but, as we know they were folded into what is now a small company called Airbus. While waiting for a flight from Zurich in, 1966 someone told me of a Swissair captain then used his Caravelle's engines to disperse fog. The brakes overheated and caught fire.

@fadynakad

2 жыл бұрын

Sud aviation

@mxyzptlyk

2 жыл бұрын

​@@fadynakad Correct. SNCASE and SNCASO merged to become Sud Aviation. Sud Aviation was merged with SEREB to become Aerospatiale and they all merged into EADS which obtained an 80% share of Airbus.

@xavier9147

Жыл бұрын

​@@fadynakad right. Sud Aviation : Concorde, Airbus, Eurocopter... Caravelle birthd in a prestige family

Exotic

United airlines had a few caravelles. They looked nice in United colours.

@justplanes

3 жыл бұрын

totally! nice memories

Wonderful clip, a real mechanical handling, no synth voice calling „100 above, 50, 40, 30, retard, retard“ but reverse thrust engaged while still flying. Dedicated crew. And yes, great Moment the boy carrying a toy caravelle at the end. I’m grateful for having been flown caravelle with Finnair in 1979 and with Air Inter 1986. caravelle est la beauté et vedette des avions et c’est super de la revoir. Thx for this great clip.

Beautiful airplane. It seems as though Boeing copied the nose for the 787.

@novemberdelta1282

4 жыл бұрын

What do you mean "copied"? It looks nothing like the 787.

@Shrimpo7

4 жыл бұрын

@@novemberdelta1282 It’s not really a copy, but you have to admit to the similarities. As they say, form follows function.

@j777barbasiewicz

3 жыл бұрын

Do you expect the 787 to have the nose vertical?

@KarmaFlight

3 жыл бұрын

jan bar what? Seriously? 😩

@KarmaFlight

3 жыл бұрын

novemberdelta1 well, like that’s your opinion man. 😡

Как он летает? Мятый перемятый, наверно до первой вынужденной.

Brave souls these pilots,with a number of high tech,state of the art aircraft failures (here’s looking at you 737 max)it takes great faith and exceptional skill to fly these relics from the past,especially in parts of the world where maintenance and support are questionable and logistics a bit iffy and reliability a must…

je croyais qu il n'y en avait plus qui volait

0:22 maybe he wanted to polish a Rolls...

0:38 why is that guy cleaning the engine?😹

the very last Caravelle flying, crashed 2004 in Rwanda

Second dudes

That plane crashed in 2004, the crew had to perform a forced landing due to fuel shortage on a short runway, but couldn't make it well. The aircraft has been written-off, but without fatalities.

@justplanes

5 жыл бұрын

João Paulo Serra very interesting. Any photos?

@Johnbirul

5 жыл бұрын

@@justplanes check this page: www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-aerospatiale-caravelle-gisenyi They didn't get permission to land in Goma, then had to divert to another airport just close by, and according to the short fuel left, but the runway was too short. They tried their best to land firmly. If they had more fuel, it could have been worst...

Still flying...737 MAX can’t say that.

@airdubai1

5 жыл бұрын

LOL so true

@Chorizo727

5 жыл бұрын

The caravelle is not flying anymore

@97I30T

5 жыл бұрын

Data Masked What do you mean still flying? The Caravelle has been retired since 2005. No Caravelles have flown since then.

@yolsclassics6347

5 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure there are no Caravelles flying today. This video was recorded in 1999.

@eduardosantabaya5348

3 жыл бұрын

@@97I30T the very same aircraft performed the last Caravelle flight, crashing in Rwanda 2004, no casualties, but w/o. Swedish Air Force has Caravelles in flying condition, but without certification, and no European country will issue a certification for the type ever. In England there is a Comet 4 with the same problem.

How old is that aircraft!

@haiko11

5 жыл бұрын

this 3D-SEP delivered to it's first owner ( french airforce) in july '76

@mauriceryton

5 жыл бұрын

Wow!

Beautyfull aircraft,bit Very noise insiste que out, this das original jet engines ir some modern atualization?

@banik20080

2 жыл бұрын

Wut?

Caravelle 10/12 ?

Trabalhava na varig

First dudes😂

Makes me feel so sad there´s not even ONE flying no more :( Today´s airliners get uglier every years. Big fat sausages with disproportionate wings, disgusting. Caravelle, VC10, Il62, Concorde.. Those were planes.

aviation en Afrique !🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

c'est magnifique

I was a passenger on a few Caravelles when working overseas. The plane was a piece of shit, even by 60-70's standards. Would have thought introduction of the DC-9 would end its production, but at that time in aviation many European airlines were managed by complete morons and were state owned. Same can be said of the Comet4. Even though the 707 and DC-8 were way more advanced and practical, the Europeans often chose the Comet4 instead.

@ant2312

2 жыл бұрын

wondered when I'd see a biased boeing fanboi comment

beautiful aircraft.... wonderful flight.... nice video! congrats