Originally Posted by
megan
With the talk about folding fins, at Heathrow in the late Forties, G-ALSC Centaurus shows another unusual feature of the breed: a sideways-folding fin and rudder to facilitate hangarage
Are you sure that is Heathrow?
BOAC used to put aircraft sideways in 106 or 107 hangar at Hurn. There were still tracks in the ground for the trolleys when I worked there in the 1970s.
I've seen a photo of a Constellation like this at Hurn.
Dixi.