Re: Lancastrians, Andes


Andrew Robert Breen wrote:
In article <1158234637.783186.17970@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
guy <guyswettenham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Andrew Robert Breen wrote:
In article <1158233525.677992.297070@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
guy <guyswettenham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Not military so a bit OT...
Given that the Lancastrian was unpressurised how where the passengers
suppled with oxygen when crossing the Andes?

Bottle and mask, IIRC. Not uncommon in those days. Same was done
for cross-Indian-Ocean flights where they had to climb above
the monsoons (probably better than trying to fly through them).

Thanks Andy,
that is the only solution i could think of - must have been fun!

Flying with BSAA seems to have been interesting, in the sense of the
old Chinese saw.

As the rather grim joke had it:

"BOAC will take good care of you
BEA will take you there and back
BSAA will inform your next of kin"

The first two, of course, were the advertising slogans used by
BOAC and BEA. BSAA seems to have had the worst accident rate of
any airline since the pioneering days.

--
Andy Breen ~ Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting
money from the gullible (Martin Sinclair)

lol:-)
i worked on a Y2K project for BA a few years ago, one of my colleagues
- a COBOL programmer! - discovered that the app she was working on was
a BOAC ap, not BA, and has last been modified before she was born!


guy

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