Aircraft comparison
Boeing 707 vs Douglas DC-8 vs Sud Aviation Caravelle
In a nutshell
The Douglas DC-8 carries 3.2 times as many passengers as the Sud Aviation Caravelle (259 vs 80).
The Douglas DC-8 flies 5,708 km farther non-stop than the Sud Aviation Caravelle. That difference is like a Madrid–New York flight.
At take-off, one Douglas DC-8 can weigh as much as 3 Sud Aviation Caravelle aircraft combined.
Over 1,000 km of cruise, the Douglas DC-8 arrives 8 minutes ahead of the Sud Aviation Caravelle.
The Sud Aviation Caravelle first flew 3 years before the Douglas DC-8.
About 1,010 units of the Boeing 707 were built: 3.6 times as many as the Sud Aviation Caravelle.
Nose to tail, the Douglas DC-8 is 25.1 m longer than the Sud Aviation Caravelle.
To scale
Parked side by side at the same scale: each drawing is as wide as the aircraft is long (the chosen variant or, when the model is chosen, its representative variant).
Figure by figure
Each bar is measured against the largest in the comparison; the crown marks the leader.
How far it goes
Each shaded area is what it could reach non-stop from the chosen city. Filled dots are cities within reach of at least one.
Nominal range with a typical passenger load, measured in a straight line over the sphere (great-circle route). In practice every flight follows airways, carries fuel reserves and depends on wind, payload and runway.
Lifeline
From each model's first flight to the end of its production.
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Figures for each variant (and, when the model is chosen, for its most representative variant), taken from manufacturers' published specifications and standard aviation references: every configuration changes them somewhat. A specific aircraft takes its variant's figures when its designation identifies it unambiguously, plus the data in its own record.