Everything about Sud Aviation Super-caravelle totally explained
Sud Aviation's
Super-Caravelle was an early design for a
supersonic transport. Unlike most competing designs which envisioned larger trans-Atlantic aircraft and led to the likes of the
Boeing 2707, the Super-Caravelle was a much smaller, shorter range design intended to replace their earlier and very successful
Caravelle. Design work started in 1960 and was announced in 1961 at the
Paris Air Show, but was later merged with similar work at the
British Aircraft Corporation (originally the
Bristol 223) to create the
Concorde project in November 1962. After starting the Concorde, the Super Caravelle name was instead used on a lengthened version of the original Caravelle design, the SE-210B.
The Super-Caravelle looks very much like a smaller, two-engine version of the Concorde. It used the Concorde's unique ogive wing planform, and was otherwise similar in shape and layout with the exception of the nose area which was more "conventional" and only the outermost section over the
radar "drooped" for visibility on takeoff and landing. In normal use it was designed to carry 70 passengers between 2000 to 3000 km at about
Mach 2. The size and range requirements were set to make the Super-Caravelle "perfect" for
Air France's European and African routes.
The Concorde was originally to be delivered in two versions, a longer-range transatlantic version similar to the Bristol 223 that was eventually delivered as the Concorde, and a smaller version for shorter range routes similar to the Super-Caravelle. After consulations with prospective customers, the smaller design was dropped.
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