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Post subject: Re: Last “Operational” Caravelle Posted: 16 Oct 2021, 16:42 |
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Username Protected wrote: Cool - IMO - Certainly among the top 3 prettiest airliners ever built.
1) Concorde 2) Caravelle 3) Convair 880 Great taste Allen. Concorde is definitely number 1, my biggest regret is that I will never fly in one. Concorde and La Caravelle were designed and built by the same company, Sud Aviation. As a matter of fact, there was a project called "Super-Caravelle". Don't laugh at the name, it's a relic of the times, there was also a Super-Mystère B2, and the famous Super-Etendard. Anyway, Super-Caravelle was a project by Sud Aviation to design, with Dassault, a supersonic airliner; Dassault being quite familiar with delta wings, of course. See where this is going? Super-Caravelle was to be available in two versions, one (shorter than Concorde) for the European/African flights that AF was operating at the time, and a bigger one for transatlantic flights. Of course it all got scrapped and mixed with the Bristol 223 project, and became the most beautiful avion ever designed. Meanwhile, Super Caravelle (without the hyphen), or SE-210B, was the name given to a stretched version of the Caravelle.
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Post subject: Re: Last “Operational” Caravelle Posted: 17 Oct 2021, 09:03 |
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Username Protected wrote: Cool - IMO - Certainly among the top 3 prettiest airliners ever built.
1) Concorde 2) Caravelle 3) Convair 880 I agree with your choices. There seems to be something about airliners starting with the letter “C.” I’ll add another: the Comet, designed by DeHavilland.
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Post subject: Re: Last “Operational” Caravelle Posted: 17 Oct 2021, 09:05 |
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Username Protected wrote: Cool - IMO - Certainly among the top 3 prettiest airliners ever built.
1) Concorde 2) Caravelle 3) Convair 880 There should be two lists. On the first one, there is the Connie. On the second list, there is everything else. Jg
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Post subject: Re: Last “Operational” Caravelle Posted: 17 Oct 2021, 09:13 |
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Username Protected wrote: Cool - IMO - Certainly among the top 3 prettiest airliners ever built.
1) Concorde 2) Caravelle 3) Convair 880 There should be two lists. On the first one, there is the Connie. On the second list, there is everything else. Jg
Well, I have to admit my list was thinking about the jet airliners, perhaps a product of me being young enough to have never ridden on a piston driven commercial airliner, but if we want to make a jet - prop list I'll go with these for prop driven airliners.
1) Connie 2) Bristol Brittania (breaking with the "C" theme) 3) Vicker Viscount - While nothing extraordinary it always struck me a as a clean design.
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Post subject: Re: Last “Operational” Caravelle Posted: 17 Oct 2021, 17:30 |
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Username Protected wrote: Cool - IMO - Certainly among the top 3 prettiest airliners ever built.
1) Concorde 2) Caravelle 3) Convair 880 There should be two lists. On the first one, there is the Connie. On the second list, there is everything else. Jg
Hey JG,
My father worked as a steward for BOAC (British Airways) on a Connie back in the fifties. His routes took him from London to Tokyo with stops via Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad, Delhi, Singapore and Hong Kong. At each stop the flight crew had two days off before continuing. It was a different time and must have been a wonderful way to see the world.
It goes without saying I have had a soft spot for the Connie ever since.
-ad
P.S. He also traveled as a passenger on the SS United States, another beautiful machine I would love to have seen in its prime.
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Post subject: Re: Last “Operational” Caravelle Posted: 17 Oct 2021, 17:38 |
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Antoni - since we've now brought up UK aircraft, I have to say that the Vickers VC-10 still looks amazing and fast today. BOAC and Gulf Air we're pretty much the only ones that flew them. Attachment: vc10.jpg
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Post subject: Re: Last “Operational” Caravelle Posted: 18 Oct 2021, 00:07 |
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There was some design collaboration between deHaviland and Sud Aviation on the Caravelle because the nose section is identical between it and the Comet.
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