Rearward Facing Seats

[kit]

Paul,

Based on this answer, one could also say the C-130 is such a plane, since it is capable of reversing. :huf:

While I take your original point a Herk isn't airborne when it's going backwards. Or at least I HOPE it isn't.........

The Pogo surely was airborne when going backwards though, but quite how Skeets did it I can't imagine. A pilot of exceptional skill.

[Garry Russell]

Pretty well all aircraft with reverse thrust can reverse

Some jets even backed out on reverse at some airports instead of push back...very noisy

The Beverley used to reverse often

And the Harrier can fly backwards :dance:

Garry

[Paul K]

Ah, but thats not the implication of the original question.

Can anyone think of an aircraft type where the pilot did face backwards????

The question asks in which plane does the pilot face backwards. In the XFY1, he is facing forward, and the plane goes backwards. By your premise, it could be said that the pilot of a Harrier faces backwards, since that aircraft is capable of reversing slowly in the hover. And I still maintain that premise also applies to the C-130, which also reverses under its own power while under the sole control of the pilots, albeit while on the ground.

The pedantic prosecution rests.

[kit]

But I set the question and I'm the judge.........

And I know about going backwards in Beverleys only too well, that's why I'm deaf i suspect.

My Dad's definition of a Beverley was 'A double decked Hastings with twice the number of oil leaks......'

[Paul K]

But I set the question and I'm the judge.........

So I don't get first prize, a fish and chip supper with Joely Richardson and a bus home ?? :curse:

[michduncg]

Going back to the original thread BEA liked to have rearward facing seats as an option for its 'Silver Wing' service - Elizabethans had them mid-cabin, Viscounts had them too, as well as the Comets. Pics I have seen show a permanent table like on a train. BOAC Comet 1s also had a coupe area in the forward cabin with seats facing each other.

Not that I have been on any of these aircraft with these layouts - just spent too much of my life looking at old plane books and films :-({|=

[Jetset]

The Euro Manx Dash 8 OEHBC has rear facing seats on the first row on the right side of the aircraft. Doesn't seem right to me, especially in the climb.