Caravelle

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Caravelle (plural Caravelles)

  1. A type of twin-engine jet that was the first medium-haul modern jet airplane.
    • 2010, Alan Renga, Mark E. Mentges, Pacific Southwest Airlines, →ISBN:
      After much consideration, Friedkin decided not to purchase the Caravelles.
    • 2012, David Chance, Around the World in 80 Years, →ISBN, page 559:
      The airline has bought 4 Caravelles from Swissair, and they are very nice aircraft and are far superior to the previous planes they had.
    • 2012, Anthony Sampson, Empire of the Sky:
      The Comet disasters gave all the more prestige to Air France when in 1959 it began flying its elegant jet the Caravelle, through Europe as far as Istanbul.
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