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Cockpit CARAVELLE to Oyem Gabon (1999)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 พ.ค. 2019
- 20 Years ago JustPlanes was very lucky to have been invited to Gabon to film the very last Caravelle operating in scheduled passenger service. Our crew was able to take no less than 10 flights on this aircraft across the country of Gabon and was even able to film one air to air flight with some amazing memorable footage of the aircraft!
The Caravelle first flew on May 27th 1955, a total of 282 units were built and nearly 100 airlines operated them until the aircraft was retired in 2005.
Gabon Express started operated scheduled jet and prop services to various destinations in Gabon from 1998 to 2004. . At the time this program was filmed Gabon Express was the last airline in the world to operate a Caravelle in scheduled passenger service making this dvd a very unique experience.
The program also features the Hawker Sidley 748 and you will learn about both types of aircraft as you follow flights to very primitive fields in Africa. At Oyem the Caravelle must engage its reversers before landing due to the short runway!
An experience that cannot be missed is the air to air of the Caravelle over the coastline of Gabon, this is certainly one of the highlights of the World Air Routes series!
You can now download this classic piece of history for just $15
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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!
Its not a "safety" culture, its a "lawsuit" culture where profit is a god.✈
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.........
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.
That landing was just spectacular. Visual approach to a short runway and the captain nailed it.
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 ! 💪🏼🤝🏼✌🏼
Good landing with speed brakes and reverser on before touchdown. Very cool.
No go-around on that :P
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.
@@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.
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...
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More of first gen jets pls! Caravelle, F-28, Trident, BAC 1-11! Love this!
beautiful aircraft.... wonderful flight.... nice video! congrats
That landing is extremely smooth and impressive! Short primitive airfield.
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...
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.....
Love the hand-cleaning... proud of their baby!
Lots of oil leak. Pax do not like to watch oil leaks prior dep....
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.
The beautiful Lady of the Sky
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.
I love this video! It is certainly quite historical, I miss the Caravelle :(
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
Great footage. Love the young lads with the toy plane looking up at the real thing - wonder if they are pilots now?
Thank you Justplane!!!!!
Beautiful aircraft!
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....
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.
Superbe, quel avion mythique, magnifique !
Amazing aircraft. Please more of those videos. thx
Old but Gold, another fantastic video, keep up the good work.
🇫🇷 la caravelle un avion mythique de l industrie aéronautique française
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
Is it the one at aero beach entebbe?
Never mind I think it was 3D-KIK
GREAT VID, WHAT A CLASSIC AIRCRAFT!!!
I wish air Gabon was still a thing in nowadays
I have never seen anyone polish a plane. Cool.
Merci d’avoir mis en ligne ce document ! Pour information, à découvrir sur la chaîne TH-cam :
« PHIL DE RAIL » la vidéo : « La Caravelle figée ». Et si l’avion Caravelle m’était conté…
I think this is the first time I see a plane being embarked/disembarked from the starboard side.
Ainda voa? No meu tempo de aviação, nos anos 60 e 70, o Caravelle era top de linha no Brasil!
Infelizmente não! Se acidentou em agosto de 2004, perca total!
The Caravelle was the best airplane at that time.I have flown her four times.
A beautiful airplane! It's a shame, that it crashed 5 years later in Rwanda :-(
Los volé en Ecuador, en San, y Saeta, caravelle IV, en Quito, Guayaquil, y Guayaquil-Panamá. en los 70's.
Красота какая....
Great video the manual final approach was very interesting 🤓🤔,no computer 🖥️💻 their just the pulse of the pilot.
Haven't seen one in forever! Still a great looking bird.
Real y nice Video
Крутое видео. и самолет. Приборная доска вся аналоговая) Перед взлетом самолет буквально вылизывают. Интересно смотреть такое
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.
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.
The French said "screw the rest of the world we speak French in our cockpit!"
...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.
So do we in Québec !
Great to see this old bird fly!❤️👍
For sure, thank you
Awesome!
Great video !
I flew on a United Caravelle back in the 1960's.
Did anyone notice how well the passengers are dressed ? So much different if you take a look on the flights in Europe of today.
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.
Thanks for the video
Classic plane, wings of the past!
More of this.
......when I was 7 years old....got to fly on a SuperCaravell.....
Scared as Hell.....
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
Beautiful jet.
It sure is!
Pre departure and arrival at the apron, wow probably common during those days in these countries.
9:10 future pilot!
magnifique avion !! bientôt sur simulateur, p3d v4 . vivement
Es una versión repotenciada!! El original era extraordinariamente ruidoso!!! Noisy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not much room for error on that destination runway.
J'adore...
Very elegant plane though has seen better days .
The left side window looks ajar!
Very interesting..
Older than dirt!
Quando eu era menino meu pai trabalhava na várias ele falava deste avião muito bonito
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.
Sud aviation
@@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.
@@fadynakad right. Sud Aviation : Concorde, Airbus, Eurocopter... Caravelle birthd in a prestige family
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.
What do you mean "copied"? It looks nothing like the 787.
@@novemberdelta1282 It’s not really a copy, but you have to admit to the similarities. As they say, form follows function.
Do you expect the 787 to have the nose vertical?
jan bar what? Seriously? 😩
novemberdelta1 well, like that’s your opinion man. 😡
These birds were monsters in the air when properly maintained.
There was never a Caravelle that could be maintained.
Haha i meant classic planes in general which could serve for more than 30 yrs.
@@RLTtizME wibble
@@ant2312 Limey slang doesn't cut it here Anthony. This is an American Platform.
United airlines had a few caravelles. They looked nice in United colours.
totally! nice memories
Só rezar pai nosso 100 vezes 🙏🙏🙏🙏
0:38 why is that guy cleaning the engine?😹
Wooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
the very last Caravelle flying, crashed 2004 in Rwanda
J'aime
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…
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.
João Paulo Serra very interesting. Any photos?
@@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...
e lindo
je croyais qu il n'y en avait plus qui volait
Как он летает? Мятый перемятый, наверно до первой вынужденной.
0:22 maybe he wanted to polish a Rolls...
Beautyfull aircraft,bit Very noise insiste que out, this das original jet engines ir some modern atualization?
Wut?
Exotic
Still flying...737 MAX can’t say that.
LOL so true
The caravelle is not flying anymore
Data Masked What do you mean still flying? The Caravelle has been retired since 2005. No Caravelles have flown since then.
Pretty sure there are no Caravelles flying today.
This video was recorded in 1999.
@@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.
Caravelle 10/12 ?
Trabalhava na varig
Second 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.
First dudes😂
How old is that aircraft!
this 3D-SEP delivered to it's first owner ( french airforce) in july '76
Wow!
aviation en Afrique !🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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.
wondered when I'd see a biased boeing fanboi comment
c'est magnifique
beautiful aircraft.... wonderful flight.... nice video! congrats