Aeroplane Monthly 1985-10
??? - BOAC's Boeing Clippers
Boeing 314A Berwick, G-AGCA, touches down at Iquoi Airport at Lagos, Nigeria.
Two photographs of Boeing 314 Bristol G-AGBZ. Note the red, white and blue stripes below the registration letters.
Boeing 314A Berwick, G-AGCA, on the slipway.
BOAC's 314s were painted slate blue and drab olive and the Union Jack was painted on each side of the hull. The aircraft's name was painted in black and outlined in silver.
Boeing 314 G-AGBZ Bristol, seen here in wartime guise, was operated from Poole across the Atlantic by BOAC post-war.
Boeing 314A Bristol, G-AGBZ, taking on passengers from the British Airways tender. All three BOAC 314s were withdrawn from service in 1948 and were sold to the General Phoenix Corporation of Baltimore.
BOAC’s third Boeing 314A, G-AGCB, pictured at Baltimore, where all three UK boats were periodically returned for maintenance.
The two port 1,600 h.p. Wright Cyclone engines seen from the flight deck of Bristol, G-AGBZ
The radio officer's and engineer officer's stations in Bristol. The navigator had the port side of the flight deck to himself. The door which gave access to the wing companion-ways to the engines can be seen above the engineer's head. The spaciousness of two stations is evident.
The flight deck was reached via a staircase from Cabin B on the starboard side. Aft of the cockpit on the starboard side was the radio officer's table.