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1964
1964 - 0195.PDF
132 FUGHT International, 23 January 1964 ^Furnishing Finishing datum. BOAC's interior-design requirements on the VC10 were co-ordinated by Mr J. R. Finnimore, the corporation's aircraft development manager, who set out to produce a "passenger's airliner" in every respect. Interior design to his detailed require- ment was undertaken by the manufacturer's Weybridge design team in co-operation with Charles Butler Associates. BOAC, however, retained its own consultants to apply texture and colour to the cabin—Mrs Gaby Schreiber for the standard VC10 and Mr Robin Day for the Super VC10. The resulting designs are strikingly different. The standard VC10, for example, has a slate-blue carpet whereas that in the Super is a bright red. The Super VC10 has black-and-white check seat coverings, and the seats in the standard aircraft have alternating coverings in sand, brown and green. There has been no announcement of any proposal to create a specific "style" for the eleven VClOs on order for RAF Transport Command. The desire to use seats interchangeable with those for the Britannia and Belfast would, of course, be a restrictive factor in this context. It has been reported, however, that Mrs Schreiber has been retained to undertake interior design of the six Hawker Siddeley 748s ordered for the RAF, including two for the Queen's Flight, indicating some readiness on the part of the Service to keep up with the civil Joneses in matters of design. VClOs for British United and Ghana Airways will have colour schemes by Charles Butler Associates. The Douglas Aircraft Company, as previously mentioned, is more self-sufficient than most aircraft manufacturers in matters of interior design. Its customers have the option of using Douglas designers to advise on materials and colours or of retaining their own consultants. As might be expected, the Douglas approach to design is highly A club lounge arrangement designed by Charles Butler for the Mohawk Airlines version of the BAC One-Eleven. With a cabin width of 124m, and many features adapted from the VCIO, the One-Eleven can genuinely be claimed to offer "big jet" comfort standards on short routes professional and comprehensive, and Douglas research over a long period has shown appreciation of passenger environment as a factor in design. In 1956, for example, an investigation was made into variables influencing the design of overwing emergency exits; this involved more than 12,000 transits by a wide cross-section of people—old and young, male and female, tall and short and "both naive and experienced." Similarly, Douglas studies have been made into many other aspects of design, ranging from population growth to rates of wash water and waste production in flight. In a paper entitled The Passenger, Mr Stanley Lippert of the Douglas Interiors Design Group presented this interesting informal The rivals: 65-seat mixed-class layouts for the BAC One-Eleven and below) Douglas DC-9 STNGALLEY , 64 j,3 GALLEY SOI TOILET WSSENCER VENTRAL COATS STAIRWAY PASSENGER COATS STN.I74 FORWAR0 AIRSTEPS (OPTIONAL) GALLEY SERVICE AND EMERG EXIT ATTENDANT'S SEAT GALLEY AND CREW STOWAGE LAVATORY ATTENDANT'S SEAT •-COATROOM OBSERVER'S SEAT
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