RODEN 339 BOEING 307 STRATOLINER TWA "The TRANSCONTINENTAL Line" 1/144 SCALE
DESCRIPTION:
In the mid-1930s, in the wake of the rapid growth in passenger air travel, the Boeing Aircraft Company, while busy with the design of a modern four-engine bomber, worked simultaneously on the creation of a new four-engine aircraft, purposed for civil aviation.
Innovative engineering directly affected the design of the aircraft fuselage - for the first time in a machine of this type, a pressurized cabin was utilized, which enabled a significant increase in altitude in flight, allowing greater safety and a minimization of collision with thunderstorms, which flights were affected by at lower levels. The new aircraft, according to designers, could safely fly at an altitude of more than 7,500 meters, where the more dangerous atmospheric phenomena were absent.
The first flight of the aircraft took place on the last day of 1938.
The type was also named Stratoliner for the first time in the history of American civil aviation. The aircraft was comfortable enough and could carry 33 passengers in a seated position, or 16 in folding comfortable berths during long transcontinental night flights. In addition to the forced ventilation system and the maintenance of normal pressure, the Stratoliner had many other interesting innovations. Considerable attention was paid to the issue of flight comfort, so that even a spacious women's lavatory was installed, with a separate toilet located in it.
FEATURES:
* Brand: Roden
* Title: Boeing 307 Stratoliner
* Number: 339
* Scale: 1/144
* Type: Full kit
* Released: 2019 New tool
* Topic: Boeing 307 Stratoliner » Propeller (Aircraft)
* Markings for: TWA B-307 NC19907
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