International travel in 1930's

[MichaelSTee]

This makes me think of what Traveller passenger travel would be like, or at least the way it is IMTU.

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/what-international-air-travel-was-like-in-the-1930s-1471258414

 

[Vladika]

Thanks much for the post. Great stuff!

 

[Timerover51]

You might want to look at some of the interior shots of the Pacific Clippers, as they were designed for overnight sleeping given the duration of the flight.

 

[SpaceBadger]

This makes me think of what Traveller passenger travel would be like, or at least the way it is IMTU.

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/what-international-air-travel-was-like-in-the-1930s-1471258414

I like this feel a lot for a Colonial Expansion setting where interstellar travel is something new and special - doesn't work so well for something like the Third Imperium where interstellar travel has been around for millennia.

 

[BlackBat242]

You might want to look at some of the interior shots of the Pacific Clippers, as they were designed for overnight sleeping given the duration of the flight.

http://www.flyingclippers.com/B314.html

http://www.flyingclippers.com/B314interior.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-the-luxurious-boeing-314-clipper-2013-8?op=1

http://socks-studio.com/2010/11/07/flying-boats/

http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/boeing314.html

 

[Vladika]

You might want to look at some of the interior shots of the Pacific Clippers, as they were designed for overnight sleeping given the duration of the flight.

Posted a pic to my gallery as I don't know how to link to an image on my computer.

 

[Timerover51]

Thanks for the posts, BlackBat. That is what I was thinking of.

I keep figuring a high/middle passage cabin as on par with that if a cruise ship.

 

[McPerth]

All this thread makes me think about Ken Follet's novel Night Over Water, where, among an intrigue spies plot and several quite hot and explicit scenes (I must warn you all about them) it describes a flight of a clipper from Southampton to New York at the begining of WWII...

 

[Flying Dutchman]

Awesome Sauce!

Thanks for sharing the website! It breeds all kinds of ideas for anachrotech on other worlds and the roads not taken with technology!

 

[ShapeShifter]

There is an amusing movie from the 30s called Non-Stop New York (1937) about a huge trans-Atlantic plane -- a film with murder mystery and comedy elements. Pretty good if you can find it. May or may not be relevant to the thread.