Air Liners Have Berth Facilities (Jun, 1934)
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.
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.
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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
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.centennialof…
Also see http://www.dc3airways.c… and http://www.stinsonflyer… for the DST.
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