FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Atlas
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1963
1963 - 0132.PDF
120 C-AL^er UNIT FLIGHT International, 24 January 1% ~PfiiS£nCEH £MTH^nOE SLICING- DOOIZ. 22_~S£frT CftBlN Layout of the passenger accommodation in the two Carvairs for Aer Lingus, reducing car capacity to four vehicles but increasing the number of seats to 34 C»f2 tV£wy Furnishing and Finishing C A R V A I R . floor-level grilles in the front and rear cabin bulkheads. There are no individual lights, but the concealed roof lights, three on each side of the cabin, give excellent general lighting for reading. Passen gers have dimming controls for these lights. The rear cabin is entered via a small passage which extends for ward of the port entry door to form a toilet compartment, narrow but sufficiently roomy to accommodate a small washbasin, towel dispenser and waste disposal units, as well as a non-flushing toilet and a large mirror on the forward wall. Just forward of the cabin is a simple galley unit providing stowage for bottles, glasses, lunch- boxes, and a 2gal hot-cup for coffee. A sliding door forward of the galley shuts off the rear passenger accommodation from the hold. Aer Lingus Version In the two Carvairs which Aviation Traders are building for Aer Lingus, additional passenger accommodation is being provided. The airline has called for stowage for four cars only, and seating for up to 34 passengers. The 12 extra passengers will be seated in a cabin immediately forward of the existing rear cabin (layout of which is identical with that just described), a removable bulkhead being installed in the hold. This can be posi tioned either to accommodate 12 passengers in four rows (or nine in three rows) of three-seat units with a gangway to port. In the Aer Lingus version the sliding door between bold and rear cabin will normally be kept open, but concealed behind a grey curtain. Unlike the rear cabin, in which the seats are mounted on fixed fittings built into the floor structure, the seats in the forward cabin will be mounted on rails, so that there is more scope for flexibility of arrangement. Four pairs of roof lights, similar to those in the rear cabin, are mounted over the inboard seats and over the gang way. An additional cold-air intake is being provided to serve the individual louvres, and the hot-air ducting system of the original version has been extended to feed in warm air through grilles, just above foot level, in the starboard sidewall. Aer Lingus are to use the same decor for the passenger-accommo dation as is provided for British United Air Ferries—with the excep tion that window surrounds will be white instead of gold. The colour scheme adopted is one that has proved generally popular and serviceable in airline use—i.e., deep blue carpets and kickstrips, light blue and gold Lurex seat covers, the lower part of the wall trim in coral-coloured Vynide with white Vynide upper walls, room trim in gold-starred white Lionide, and window curtains in plain white satin. For the toilet compartment a fresh and cool blue is the chosen colour. The galley unit for Aer Lingus will have stainless-steel working surfaces instead of white plastics as in BUA's aircraft, and will be provided with two Stiebel hot containers for tea and coffee respect ively, with stowage for four meal-boxes and a waste-disposal unit Stewardess-call will be by chimes instead of by coloured lights. The standard Carvair passenger cabin as operated by British United Air Ferries, looking aft. An attractive colour scheme does much to increase the apparent volume
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
