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Aviation History
1944
1944 - 1696.PDF
178 FLIGHT AUGUST I7TH, I944 AVRO YORK and super-important personages. There is no stan dard passenger version of the York as such, although in view of the fact that there are more Yorks of the 1st class passenger category than of any other (including freighter versions), this class can be nominally represented as standard, and it is with this type that we shall deal. Twenty-four passengers are accommodated in two cabins, twelve in each, the compartments being divided by the wardrobe space and toilet rooms, which are placed to starboard of the entrance "hall." The seating arrangement pro vides each passenger with an individual armchair, but these are arranged two side-by-side to star board, and singly to port, leaving a gangway or aisle the whole length of both cabins. The seats are positioned so that each "row" is served on each side by two of the circular windows which pierce the length of the fuselage, and this ensures the' cabin being pleasantly lighted without the attendant design difficulty of large unstressed areas. Cabin Ventilation The ceiling of the front cabin is false, being made up in three detachable panels which -give access to the interior of the roof proper. In the space provided by this false ceiling are a folding ladder stowed athwartships and serving a ditching escape-hatch in the roof to starboard forward (a parachute escape hatch is to port forward in the floor); a water tank which serves the toilet rooms, the electrical system batteries, which are stowed to starboard; and the hydraulic system com ponents, which are mounted on a panel on the forward face of the front main spar. Above the seats are racks for light luggage, and above the racks are ducts for infiltration ventila tion of cool air. Ducts for infiltration of warm air are above the cove skirting between walls and floor, the degree of warm and cool air supplied to the cabin being regulated by handles con trolling butterfly flaps at the rear end of each duct. The warm air duct is supplied through radiators fed from both inboard engine coolant systems. Cold air is taken in through a vent in the wing-root leading-edge, passes through a radiator in which circulates coolant from the adjacent engine, and is there warmed and fed to the cabin duct, which also feeds the crew cabin. Cool air is supplied from small single scoops on each side of front and rear cabins. The crew compartment has a vacuum extractor vent, sand cool air has to flow forward from the passenger cabin aided by the fan in the communicating door. In addition to the general cabin ventilation described, each passenger has an adjustable fitting by which a stream of warm or cool air of controllable strength can be played where desired. The central space between the passenger cabins is devoted to toilet accommodation, and a central wardrobe fitted with hooks and rail for coat hangers. Each toilet The " office " seen through the entry door. The pilot's hand is on the throttles, beneath his elbow are the engine instruments. The radio man is at bottom left, and a portion of the navigator's pane! is at top right. room has a special Elsan flushing closet, a light-alloy folding wash basin, and a wall mirror. The outer walls and doon; of the toilet rooms are of stretched leather, enamel painted, whilst the inner walls are doped and enamel painted fabric. Kitchen Equipment Layout and general arrangement of the rear passenger cabin is similar to the forward cabin, but there are minor differences, such as the arrangement of lights which, in the rear cabin are placed in the roof, whereas in the front cabin they are in the walls. This is made possible by not having a false ceiling in the rear cabin except at its forward end where a raking panel encloses hot- and cold-water tanks for kitchen services, the hot water being obtained by means of an immersion heater. Aft of the rear cabin is the kitchen, and very well -A equipped and arranged it is. but an elaborate "hay-box 'sM%: Food is not cooked aBoard, " type of electrically heated cabinet maintains pre-cooked food piping hot without allowing it to become dry and "stale." The haybox is to starboard with the heat ing control panel on top. Over the haybox, fitted The clean main-plane top surface, two-part wing flaps, neat tail-unit, and twin- tread tail-wheel can clearly be seen in this view.
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