Bombers repurposed into transports/airliners

McColm · October 25, 2021, 08:49:31 PM

Quote from: Weaver on October 25, 2021, 07:27:17 PM
Nice interior shot of a BOAC Avro Lancastrian. Not a lot of room, is there!

Pic posted on Twitter by @Fly_BOAC here: https://twitter.com/Fly_BOAC/status/1452567784270057473?s=20

What no door mat to wipe your shoes on when entering the plane?

Rick Lowe · October 26, 2021, 01:11:26 AM

Quote from: McColm on October 25, 2021, 08:49:31 PM
Quote from: Weaver on October 25, 2021, 07:27:17 PM
Nice interior shot of a BOAC Avro Lancastrian. Not a lot of room, is there!

Pic posted on Twitter by @Fly_BOAC here: https://twitter.com/Fly_BOAC/status/1452567784270057473?s=20

What no door mat to wipe your shoes on when entering the plane?

Post-War austerity measures... one probably even had to do without one's Scotch, or G'n'T.

PR19_Kit · October 26, 2021, 02:20:57 AM

I've never seen an interior pic of a Lancastrian before, and that pic answers the question of how the seats were arranged!

I couldn't work out how they got two rows of seats into that narrow Lanc fuselage, and they didn't................

Gondor · October 26, 2021, 04:55:11 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on October 26, 2021, 02:20:57 AM
I've never seen an interior pic of a Lancastrian before, and that pic answers the question of how the seats were arranged!

I couldn't work out how they got two rows of seats into that narrow Lanc fuselage, and they didn't................

Looks like that was all they got in there, admittedly turned round 90^o and put end to end.

Gondor

The Wooksta! · October 26, 2021, 04:56:06 AM

Don Bennet said the Lancastrian was a poor airliner but would have made a great bomber...

There's apparently two versions of the Lancastrian. There's the modified Lancasters and there's the Lancastrian proper, which had the rear fuselage widened slightly by removing the taper. The Alitalia Lancastrians are the latter.

NARSES2 · October 26, 2021, 06:12:59 AM

That's a fascinating photograph, both for the way the seats are aligned, I had no idea and assumed they'd be standard fit, and for the fact they've got that paper covering the floor

kitnut617 · October 26, 2021, 11:23:53 AM

My Dad told me that when he was in 617 Sqn, they were sent out to the far east very suddenly. So sudden that the ground crews were taken out in the Lancasters (Mk.VII's BTW). He told me they all had to sit on the floor ----

kerick · October 26, 2021, 11:25:46 PM

That pic looks like once everyone got in and settled you could at least stretch your legs out!

zenrat · October 27, 2021, 04:17:37 AM

Definitely more legroom than any modern airliner i've flown in. Better soundtrack as well.

Rick Lowe · October 27, 2021, 11:27:03 AM

Quote from: zenrat on October 27, 2021, 04:17:37 AM
Definitely more legroom than any modern airliner i've flown in. Better soundtrack as well.

Where's the 'like' button? Ah well, consider it duly activated.

Nick · October 28, 2021, 10:29:46 AM

Quote from: McColm on October 25, 2021, 08:49:31 PM
Quote from: Weaver on October 25, 2021, 07:27:17 PM
Nice interior shot of a BOAC Avro Lancastrian. Not a lot of room, is there!

Pic posted on Twitter by @Fly_BOAC here: https://twitter.com/Fly_BOAC/status/1452567784270057473?s=20

What no door mat to wipe your shoes on when entering the plane?

At that time the 'Terminal Building' at London Heath Row was a set of ex-army tents. Passengers would have walked out of their marquee on wooden boards across muddy grass - like a Great War trench!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-33310445

Rheged · October 28, 2021, 01:04:50 PM

Quote from: Nick on October 28, 2021, 10:29:46 AM

At that time the 'Terminal Building' at London Heath Row was a set of ex-army tents. Passengers would have walked out of their marquee on wooden boards across muddy grass - like a Great War trench!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-33310445

Know originally, I believe, as the Great Western Aerodrome