The First Jet Airliner Was SO Hard To Fly

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[00:00:00]Now, I always wonder what was it like to be a pilot of one of the first jet airliners ever. This right here is the Caraval, a French plane from the 1950s made by the company of Suit Aviation, which is long gone. But the Caraval lived on for quite a long time. It flew all the way until 2005, so it really wasn't a bad plane. Yes, I know it used one of the first jet engines ever made, the Rolls-Royce Avon, which was also used on military jet fighters like the Hawker Hunter or the Swedish SA Lancen.

[00:00:32]I do wonder how was this plane like to fly with an engine developed in the 1940s. Well, this is definitely why I'm making this video. See, this guy on Patreon is actually creating quite a good flight sim model of it. Yes. I mean, look at the way we can remove the remove before flight tags here on the PTOS. Yes, remove the covers. Yes. Oh, here's another PTO on the engine.

[00:00:55]Interestingly, and of course, an engine cover as well. Oh, this plane is nearly walkoundable. How special would it have been to have airplane windows that are not round? That's kind of weird. I mean, the cockpit is great. You can see quite a lot out of it. The glass maybe a little bit like green tinted. And yes, the it is a little bit like a this is a very complicated looking cockpit, but look at the way this plane is actually simulated. We have a circuit breaker board that we can actually use, which is pretty realistic. Oh, and we have a cabin. Yeah, people did like the caravl back then. It was modern and relatively quiet. The engines are mounted in the back. So, no one to do this. Have to This is realistic. I mean, look. Okay, now Oh, wow. So, we have to pull out this pin right here and then we can Yeah. Open the door. It's hard to even open the door. Come on. We've done two revs. Oh, okay. We Oh, this is interesting. I didn't know that. See, the caravl had doors that opened like this. There we go. So, that they don't actually open to the outside, but actually slide up in. Now, in terms of like art. Oh, look. We can actually remove this. In terms of art, yes. I mean, the cabin is a little bit like ugly and Oh, wow. It's floating. That might not be too good. But look, we can close and open the curtains. No, this shape was absolutely useless for, you know, the window blinds. We know nowadays we had those curtains right here, which is really old style. You know, this plane was back from a time before luggage had wheels. You know, we just kind of got to remember that. Oh, and look at the bathroom. Oh, it had one. That's good. It's actually funny.

[00:02:29]You can properly explore this plane.

[00:02:31]It's kind of like a flying museum, really. So, look at this. Open this.

[00:02:35]This is the baggage part. And we also seem to have, yes, a back door. This is great for airports that don't have stairs yet, which may just have been a thing in the 1950s. We can actually open the stairs from here. Open the passage and the stairs. Come on. Ah, this is a manual thing. Look at this. The stairs being lowered. Amazing. Now, yeah, this airplane was futuristic for the time, but let me look at the vertical stabilizer. It does look very DC3ish, very old. But let me just see. Can one turn on this plane? Well, first of all, the dirt plane is not in French, which is good. Now, let's go ahead and um use this right here, the checklist.

[00:03:14]Static selectors normal. What does that even mean? I guess this says normal.

[00:03:18]This might be one maybe. Like, genuinely, what the hell is a JPT?

[00:03:23]No idea. No, this plane is French, but it may not be an Airbus. Um, okay. So, something as interesting as this battery switch. How many volts do we want? Do we want 112 volts volts or 28? Um, oh, it's not specified. Okay, let's see what I can do here. Oh, yeah, the battery is actually given volt, but I think I found the right switch here. This is the main battery switch. Did it just ring? Wait, that's funny. And yes, this plane is very beautifully made. For example, I can press this right here and I can call up the ground power or disconnect it in this case. So, this is like very, very well done. What an underrated aeroplane.

[00:04:01]Putting on the boom headset lowers the volume. Now, this is the early version of the caravl and it actually did not have an APU. So, does that mean these turbo jet engines are able to just turn on? I mean, we can try to do it. So, engine number two, start that. You know, this airplane truly is a bit of a maze, I will say. But pressing this clown button is the engine start, which I reckon is electric, which is super interesting. I mean, this whole airplane is incredibly, let's say, honest. I mean, look at the way that these wires work. They're just literally This is just a little circuit with a little resistor right here, which is literally just screwed into the board. Wonderful.

[00:04:39]Okay, come on. Come on. Uh-oh. What What am I seeing here? Exhaust temperatures going up. Am I blowing up these engines?

[00:04:45]Uh oh. Oh, I forgot to kind of remove that. Uh, let's try again with engine number two. Work, please. Um, right. I'm totally able to turn on this airplane. No, I'm not. This is confusing. And I actually don't like What is all this about? See, there's so many interesting quirks with this plane.

[00:05:07]Indeed, let's maybe let's spawn it up on a on a runway with the engines running.

[00:05:13]Oh, I heard the bing. Now, do I have flight controls? Uh, this is like this looks like a submarine thing. And yes, I do. Look, we even have a flight control indicator. This is interesting because the early 737s did not have that. And this plane does. It gives you awareness of what your flight controls are doing.

[00:05:30]And that's really cool. Now, look at the goofiest parking brake in the world. Oh, that's actually the emergency brake.

[00:05:37]It's still goofy. What a great French design piece. Now, let's go ahead and get the flaps to like uh 5° kind of like a modern Airbus. We actually have three hydraulic systems, which are blue, green, and yellow. They never changed that idea. But I do wonder what happens when you put windshield alcohol. It's going to be drunk rain repellent. I mean, that's crazy because we have like these things to clean up the windshield.

[00:05:59]At the same time, we also have windshield wipers. Feel like there's a bit of an over equipment in this plane.

[00:06:04]I mean, look at how they move.

[00:06:07]Nice. You know what? The noise is kind of annoying me a little bit. Now, in case we have a rapid decompression in our cabin, we can just put the oxygen mask on, which is kind of cool. We can even hear that. and it looks like it's from the Second World War because it almost is. Now, the good thing is that the airplane does come with some literature. For example, here's the entire aeroplane flight manual with a little animation. And I think that's really cool, even though that's not necessarily like useful because you can't actually flip the pages. It's kind of just a gimmick. But I mean, look at all those gimmicks here. They're removing for flight tags. And here's even a Well, there's more circuit breakers and they're kind of usable.

[00:06:41]Holy moly. What an incredible add-on here made for a plane. Oh, look at this.

[00:06:45]Yes, this is even with a eye thing. I mean, glasses and stuff. What a beautiful add-on for a plane that was made before we landed on the moon. Can you imagine that? Let's go fly full power. Now, what does a plane like this sound like? Quite quiet, actually. In real life, I think they would make a lot more noise and especially high pitch noise, right? I mean, we have got very high RPM engine and that's very noticeable. Either way, these engines literally take forever to spool up. I mean, we have engaged full power thr like a minute ago, and they still are spooling up. And look how long it takes to spool down. This is a slow response airplane. And of course, it's slower than most modern jet airliners. Now, let's go full power again. And it takes forever to actually see that happen.

[00:07:31]Now, where's the parking brake on this thing? I actually have no idea. By the look of this handle right here, like a hand starter. No, this is actually for the throttle friction.

[00:07:41]What the hell is an artificial fuel simulator?

[00:07:46]What? Okay, now let's go ahead and get moving now. All is perfect. Yes, you can definitely feel we're going full power.

[00:07:54]Not really, by the way. Finally, we have an air speed indicator in knots.

[00:07:58]Revolutionary that we're not using kilome per hour. And yes, it takes a bit of a wow to go from zero to 100 knot.

[00:08:05]Like, this is one of the slowest things we've flown a long time, actually. But we're rotating. Yes, let's do that.

[00:08:10]Okay, wonderful. And yes, we have almost got a bit of a buttery type of landing gear, which is a little bit tilted, which is incredible. Let's go and try this.

[00:08:24]I crashed and so it blows the tires, interestingly. That's immensely. That's funny. I like that. Now, that wasn't a great takeoff. Now, let's try again.

[00:08:35]Now, uh yes, we do need a long runway.

[00:08:37]And we just did a tail strike. But yes, we don't need too much speed to be able to take off. We've got not very swept wings. That's kind of nice. Let's see what happens when we put the landing gear up. The way we do that is using this right here. We have I think we have to unlock it for a Okay, there we go.

[00:08:54]So, gear is coming up. Let's see what that looks like. Takes forever. Hello.

[00:08:58]Give me the animation, sir. Now, what is hilarious is this airplane's climb rate as well. Oh, we're climbing at 2,000 ft per minute and we're not really gaining speed very much. So, yes, this airplane really wasn't a fast climber at all.

[00:09:11]Please, landing gear. Now, this took a bit of a while. There we go. It comes up. We have a bit of a door system now.

[00:09:17]Yes, the 3D art might not be great. The landing gear is kind of coming up into into nothing. Great. But here we go.

[00:09:22]We're flying, but it kind of feels like we're barely flying. Yes, pilots did like how it kind of steered. And of course, for the time, this was special.

[00:09:31]But this is definitely far from a 757.

[00:09:34]We're really barely climbing, are we?

[00:09:36]But look at the front of the windows.

[00:09:38]This airplane still reminds me a little bit of like those Falcon airplanes that we still have, the jets, right? Let's go ahead and do a landing. Now, why am I laughing? Well, there's one party trick about the Caraval, which was pretty insane. You might know about it already.

[00:09:52]It was a parachute in this plane. Why does this plane need a parachute? I guess when the brakes failed, they didn't use the parachute on every landing because that would be extremely wasteful. But the truth is, this plane did not have thrust reversers. It was lucky to feature like literally the smallest spoiler surface ever. Like it's not even like streamlined. It's just like a net that comes out. I don't even know what the point of that is, but it had like dual surfacing spoilers. So, we have a spoiler down here and we have a spoiler up here, which was definitely needed. I mean, when this airplane had a fail break, which would sometimes happen, I guess you would definitely want the parachutes to work. So, let's see what happens if we land without any brakes. Now, we're stalling this airplane out. And we're going full power. This airplane takes forever to gain RPM back. Oh, that was a very bad landing. Doesn't matter. Let's go and stop without using brakes. We're just going to pull this. Yes. Pull the parachute. Yes. Look at this. And it does come out of a little door. Yes.

[00:10:46]Look at this. I mean, this act has almost an air bra. And so, we're actually able to stop despite us actually not using any brakes at all.

[00:10:54]What an interesting quirk right there.

[00:10:56]You would never find this on an Airbus.

[00:10:58]Way too heavy of a thing. And we don't really need any emergency braking. There we go. Look at this. Now, something I do kind of wonder about is why does the landing gear lever have like a safety lock? Does this airplane not have any ground contacttors that are able to tell, hey, we're on the ground. We can't put the landing gear up quite like this, you know. Interesting. No, this airplane does have a ground contact thing. The locking solenoid is engaged, which locks the landing gear in position. Very interesting. They really thought of everything. I think this airplane is like very interestingly, you know, simulated right here. Let's go and fill the tires. And as you can see, yes, we're like walking on rims now. Does the plane still like go? Does it work? Let's go full power and see. Right. Ah, we can't actually go on rims. Ser doesn't really have the power to be able to do that. Huh. Everybody, the suit aviation caravl for XPlane 12 is absolutely an amazing depiction. I can't wait to see it fully come out. Right now it's in an alpha state. Maybe with a little bit more texturing work. This is brilliant cuz I mean all the systems are quite well simulated and you can hear loads of mechanical clicking. There's no digital thing anywhere here at all. So this is definitely the final boss if you want to learn how to fly a plane. I have no idea what vibrators is, especially navigation with the stars could be a little bit interesting as well. Thank you guys so so much for watching this video and I'll see you guys tomorrow. As always, good night. A special thanks goes out to my members, my supporters, Guns Killer, R27, James D, the Rom, That Dude, Anime Gods of Gaming, Derek, Insider Plane, Nishitsu Finer, Professional Jamal, Ryan Williams, and New York. You've got beautiful names.