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Old March 21st 06, 10:01 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Tony Polson Tony Polson is offline
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Default BAA to build ULTra PRT in Heathrow

Terry Harper wrote:

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:37:04 +0000, Tony Polson
wrote:

I made two journeys in RAF troop carrying aircraft - to and from the
Falkland Islands. One was a converted BAC VC-10, the other a
converted Lockheed L-1011 TriStar. All the seats faced backwards.


There was a time when BCAL had some BAC 1-11 with all-backward facing
seats, which they mainly used for trooping contracts to Germany. They
occasionally got used on regular services as well, like
Gatwick-Manchester.

The Tridents used by BEA had about half the seats facing rearwards,
those at the front half of the aircraft, with the rear half facing
forwards.



Interesting, Terry, thanks.