Main memories were the indifferent Flight systems/ILS
Sud must have got to grips with this because not particularly realised is that the Caravelle was the first Autoland airliner, beating the Trident into service with a system which was fundamentally different. BEA's efforts on the Trident were driven primarily by winter fog at Heathrow impacting services, but Air Inter, particularly on Paris-Lyon, apparently got this even worse, and the route, number one French internal route in those days, was marginal with the train (nowadays the TGV has swept all before it between these cities).
I well remember the chief engineer of Irving Airchute trying to persuade us to use parachute braking on our airliners ... Back to Caravelles, in the early days of Airbus we often did day trips to Paris
Um ... you're not going to tell us that they were proposing braking parachutes on the A300 ???
