February 28, 2008

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Air Liners Have Berth Facilities (Jun, 1934)

Filed under: Aviation — @ 1:59 am
Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jun, 1934
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Air Liners Have Berth Facilities

GIANT air cruisers, equipped with comfortable sleeping quarters, will soon take flight, to mark another forward step in aviation. Each plane will have six compartments which may be converted into upper and lower berths.

These berths are longer than those in standard railroad sleeping cars and are furnished with reading lights, individually controlled air heat and the customary berth accessories. When not used for sleeping purposes, the berths are made into comfortable lounge type chairs as shown in photo, left.

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1. Oddly enough, these airliners were quite luxurious. Unless I miss my guess this article is referring to the Curtiss Condor II T-32 airliner. It was a biplane and carried only 12 passengers.
   American Airways later became American Airlines, of course.

   http://modelingmadness.com/rev.....condor.htm
   http://www.nationalmuseum.af.m.....sp?id=4251

   Comment by Firebrand38 — February 28, 2008 @ 6:54 pm

2. I think you’re right – the only other one that comes to mind is the DST (Douglas Sleeper Transport – the first production DC3s) and I believe they used a folding bunk though I’m not positive on that.

   Alan

   Comment by Alan J. Richer — February 29, 2008 @ 4:48 am

3. The DC-3 DST had a similar arrangement (with upper and lower berths) but it first flew about a year and a half after this article was published http://www.centennialofflight......Aero29.htm

   Also see http://www.dc3airways.com/aa_photos.html and http://www.stinsonflyer.com/prop/idc3-2.jpg for the DST.

   Comment by Firebrand38 — February 29, 2008 @ 9:19 pm

4. See also our own blog http://blog.modernmechanix.com.....er-planes/

   Comment by Firebrand38 — March 4, 2008 @ 11:45 am

5. FB: Nice to hear the sense of community. Feel like writing a guest post for our blog?

   Comment by Charlie — March 4, 2008 @ 11:53 am

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