Originally Posted by
Vag277
.....and built in oil leaks for rust proofing, lots of bits where one could do the job and highest maintenance bits inaccessible except to midgets with 3 elbows. But still with classic appeal.
Design "features" that were perfected with their large offerings, such as main galleys directly above avionics compartments, ensuring optimal spillage runoff paths, to name but one of hundreds I could quote.
Back to thread ---- remember, "back in the day", very few UK airfields, including RAF bases, had the luxury of sealed runways. Which in some ways accounted for very small fins and rudders and lousy yaw stability --- because you never had a crosswind --- fields were all over grass, the windsock governed all.
Tootle pip!!.