People often ask me ~ in my head ~ which are my favourite fixed-wing aircraft, and for short-haul the Caravelle edges fellow nominees Trident, BAC 1-11, Tupolev 154.
At long-haul, cherish the 747 as we may the L-1011 clinches it for onboard elevator alone.
As a personal jet, it would have to be the consummate F16, six-hundred-plus flying hours some among my co-pilots in Turkey had.
And the only aircraft I would use again to fly from Chicago to Denver in the course of one day and over the Rockies into Aspen: would have to be the under-rated Piper Tomahawk.
Yes there are pilots who prefer wings above to those below, but there are people who like eating insects too.
And the Caravelle is pictured at Manchester's 1960s terminal before they replaced it with a leaky duty-free shopping mall with travelators that don't travel.
