European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                V in k Caravelle i a my out of the Toulouse placement of Jot pods at rear of hse Tho Airliner can accommodate As Many As 80 i filth Jay Are still talking in Al about us sensation the Jet plane Caravelle created one Day last fall Wincn it took off from new Yorks Idlewild filled with airline officials and air Craft manufacturing the iwo monary worlds first and Only medium Durance pure let now in Assembly line was off on another demonstration it taxied to the run Way without suddenly it zoomed in one it wan of too feet a Low was deep and sonorous at afterwards hit a site Fol Fiolas Otred old flyers clutched the seat Arm but then beat of drum and the Bass bad Jerrt heard was the Earl a Abr town my coming to War the caramels Lou speak so so smooth is the  Airliner you stand a Cota on end on a serving it Fri in and you can even during Ril mme of the Caravelle seems a bit 1oaoe it starts moving you Quick that noise int necessary for and str pet was invited on a flight of the Caravelle from pm ii Home of Sud the nationalized aircraft factory where production models of the Caravelle Are biting turned out for five airlines in three it wits a springtime with not a Trace of Haze Over a deep purple overhead faded into a Light Blue Pate Pink in the West at be of twp civilian the Loudspeaker announced flights for and and the pedal flight of Sud aviation mini for minutes background music and the 70 Passen Gers were looking Down upon the Figlow with illuminated monuments and lights that extended Toulouse is an overnight trip by propeller driven planes now making Reg runs Between Paris and Toulouse com plete the flight in about 2v4 in an the Caravelle was approach ing everything about the plane is designed for even the ramp to the Interior is an integral part of the fuse built in to save time on the at Sud aviation Assembly Plant at Blag nac Airport near Toulouse organization has plants in Paris and seven other French cities As Well the Caravelle How is being produced at the rate of four per this is expected to be in creased to five per month sometime next air France already has taken delivery of its first which it plans to use for its european system with the 11 others it has the company has options on 12 additional scandinavian air a Lutes system has bought Hae options on 19 the Fin Nish has bought of will Start with two and has options on three and air a French airline connecting French cities with North african has purchased Sud aviation expects to be fully occupied supplying the european be sides the lines which already have four a number of others have shown it seems to be the Ideal aircraft in the Jet age for connecting european capital and for internal use among eur Opean it can be fitted for either tourist or first the former carrying 80 Pas first maximum Range with the heavier payload is As a firs class plane the Range is cruising Speed is 500 Mph at an Altitude of to feet How the Caravelle trims time and Dis Tance was illustrated the flight of pre Mier Charles de Gaulle and his which covered the 750 nautical Miles from Paris to Algiers in 1 hour 33 on test flights it has made the Casablanca Paris run in exactly 3 hours and a round trip from Paris to Casablanca nautical Miles in 6 hours 7 Sud aviation is today one of Frances major Industrial it ranks As the largest aircraft manufacturer in All it has approximately pm of which about Are employed in the Toulouse Complex of three Sud aviation in along with other aircraft firms at been a big fac Tor in that cites once largely a farm Toulouse is bulging with Industrial activity much of it developed within the last 10 everywhere workers apartments Are springing streets Are the stores look it is today Frances fourth after Marseille and Sud aviation grew out of the merger of two nationalized each of which previously had absorbed other air Craft the state owns nearly 100 per cent of the the firm is administered by a Council of 20 chosen with the approval of the govern the arrangement is similar to that of the nationalized Renault works of the automobile As at the government observes a Handoff policy in the administration of the which in general is no differ ent from that of any Industrial Enterprise formed with private As at Renault new Plant at Flins near the factories of Sud aviation at Toulouse Are and employing the latest techniques and Ideal working the Eloi near the Edge of the the main design and technical offices for Sud Here More than 400 engineers and technicians component parts and fuselage construction for Many of Sud aviation products Are manufactured at Eloi the Light supersonic interceptor Durandal is another of the company Assembly where the 23 Caravelle that will be flying next year now Are taking is in a giant hangar at Toulouse Airport one of the Caravelle already is trimmed in the air France colors and another has been in use by the partially for purposes of for several months on Freigh Carrier service Between Paris and the plane that crossed the at that carried de Gaulle to North Africa and that in used for most of the demonstration flights in Europe has been flying since another has been put through every imaginable night test if Sud two Caravelle will never they Tarn been constructed in the French air min Strys testing Center at actually production models and Complete in Era they will be tested to the Hintt it special test one will be ejected to fatigue tests in a tank of the other is to undergo the Static Ance tests indicating whether the has been correctly calculated and it it is Able to withstand the to which it May be submitted during first plans for the Caravelle were in the Type of Jet aircraft to be at that time still was air France and other transport had expressed a need for a medium Jet powered which to Date neither been developed nor started on drawing probably the most unusual Char tic of the Caravelle is the placement the two Jet engine pods on the aft Lage several factors i flt this having no engines to on the say the gives t efficiency at High a Disalvi of most conventional twin engined is eliminated due to the great Power each of the engines and their one engine were to the stability the aircraft  be during in on three Sions Sud aviation has flown its Between Algiers and Paris with one intentionally Cut another advantage of the the Jet air intakes is the silence the one of the safety the triangular design of the greater stress special brakes protruding vertically from wings give much the same sensation the passenger As braking in an within a year the Caravelle will ing the scheduled airlines from to North and on routes of fat Multi Pean airlines extending to the Middle last it win be bringing isolated South can cities closer to the rest of the Worist the smooth Caravelle a new Era in air passenger the stars and stripes