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Inauguration AF first flight (1)

Aéroport de Nice-Côte d'Azur (2)

(NCE/LFMN) nowadays.
Vickers Viking hidden by the man but visible in this other film Caravelle (1959).

8,000,000th passenger of AF Caravelle (3)

Coincidentally, the 8,000,000th passenger is the Saint (Roger Moore). This is therefore an opportunity to do a little promotion.

Visit of C.de Gaulle at London Heathrow Airport (4)

(LHR/EGLL) nowadays.

Aéroport de Paris-Orly (5)

(ORY/LFPO) nowadays.

Loud speakers on terrace of Terminal Sud.

Aircraft refueller Esso (6)

An example of semi-trailers tankers used by Aeroport d'Orly in the 1950s and early 60s. By courtesy of remimodelisme.com.
The tractor in the picture of the film seems to be a Unic Izoard.

Somua JL17 tanker *Produits Esso Aviation*.

Tribute to the Caravelle (7)

Excerpt from a text by the writer Olivier Merlin in the newspaper "Le Monde" of March 30, 1981 Air France renonce à la Caravelle.
...Nevertheless, its sleek and familiar silhouette will long remain in the memory of its admirers, as the first commercial jet aircraft designed and manufactured in France. In the left-hand seat, right at the front of the Caravelle. The captain, in his white shirt with epaulettes, has just put down the microphone, where he relayed the latest flight information to his passengers. We've swallowed the last layers of clouds, and the aircraft is hovering in the clear blue of the high altitudes. I mentally compare it to the atrocious turbulence that tossed me about fifty years ago—and 5,000 meters lower—during my first flight aboard a small, bumpy, three-engine Wibaut, emblazoned with the Air France seahorse. Yet it is this beautiful bird, so long the pride of our national fleet, that is about to be abandoned…