The Sud Aviation Caravelle holds a specific place in aviation history: the western world's first medium and short-haul twin jet airliner, and the first aircraft anywhere built with its engines mounted on the rear fuselage rather than the wings. The film traces the joint French and British engineering that produced it, and addresses head-on a persistent claim that its nose section was borrowed from the de Havilland Comet, laying out why that story does not hold up. The second half shifts from history to restoration, following Nils Alegren's project to bring a Caravelle cockpit back from salvage to a working full flight simulator, panel by panel, instrument by instrument. Archival material on the jet's design and early service sits alongside present-day footage of the restoration workshop, giving the film two timelines: the aircraft's original engineering breakthroughs and one enthusiast's effort to keep its cockpit functional decades after the type left commercial service. The result is as much about preservation as about the plane's original claim to firsts.