Originally Posted by
Transall
Hello, Cornish Jack.
Like most people, I don't know that much about the Beverley. I gather she was a fascinating creature.
Was that boom hatch that you mentioned something like the hole in the bottom of a Stirling that SOE agents dropped out of?
I did not know such a hatch was present in the Beverley's boom.
I remember one of our guys drew a cartoon about the training jumps out of the bottom of Whitleys. They were not their happiest memories with a real risk of hitting their heads on the trailing edge of the hatch. Maybe the hatch was bigger on the Beverley, or maybe she could fly at slower speeds for the drop.
Best regards, Transall.
When I was still an ATC cadet, we were given a ride in a Beverley sitting in the main hold, but some of us decided to climb up into the tail boom. A cadet (not me) noticed an interesting looking handle and operated it; the doors in the floor of the tailboom started to open so he and several other cadets jumped on it to force it closed again!