Need info on vintage airplanes 1940s-1950s

[Ceiling Cat]

In a conversation, a guy told me that he remembered as a kid flying in a propeller airplane. When people went to the toilet and flushed, a little trap door opened and the waste was ejected into the sky. I do not know if this was the actual case or if he had a false memory from a long time ago. If crap really fell from the skies, would there not be a hit on a pedestrian once in a while? Even a hit of a wad of wet used toilet paper is not too pleasant.

I think that waste was collected into a holding tank and removed when the flight was over, like it is today on jet aircraft.

 

[papasmerf]

yea
but I am sure he recalls the toilet being on the wing.

 

[cancowboy2001]

A possibility
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Stranraer

Due to its less than favourable reception by flight and ground crews, the Stranraer gained a large number of derisive nicknames. It was sometimes referred to as a "whistling shithouse" because the toilet opened out directly to the air and when the seat was lifted, the airflow caused the toilet to whistle.

Last one in civilian use was retired in 1957
Canadian airlines that had them Pacific Western Airlines and Queen Charlotte Airlines.

 

[james t kirk]

I don't know about planes, but trains just dump the turd right on the tracks. (Or at least it was that way until very recently.)

Which is why in the can they have signs that say, "Please do not flush toilet in Station"

 

[red]

I don't know about planes, but trains just dump the turd right on the tracks. (Or at least it was that way until very recently.)

Which is why in the can they have signs that say, "Please do not flush toilet in Station"

no shit?

 

[buttercup]

I don't know about planes, but trains just dump the turd right on the tracks. (Or at least it was that way until very recently.)
Which is why in the can they have signs that say, "Please do not flush toilet in Station"

Passengers will please refrain
From passing water while the train
Is standing in the station, passing through.
Hobos travelling underneath
Might catch it in the nose and teeth,
And they might bite off more than they can chew.

 

[Celticman]

In a conversation, a guy told me that he remembered as a kid flying in a propeller airplane. When people went to the toilet and flushed, a little trap door opened and the waste was ejected into the sky. I do not know if this was the actual case or if he had a false memory from a long time ago. If crap really fell from the skies, would there not be a hit on a pedestrian once in a while? Even a hit of a wad of wet used toilet paper is not too pleasant.

I think that waste was collected into a holding tank and removed when the flight was over, like it is today on jet aircraft.

I once paid for a flight on a WW2 bomber out at the warplanes museum between Hamilton and Brantford. Do not recall the toilet facility though

 

[multiman]

Many small planes, carrying a few passengers, had a padded seat that disguised a toilet. Planes like the Beechcraft and Cessna 421 had such things. Some had small holding tanks for solid waste or plastic bags, some could be drained out on the ground or in flight by a trap door. Many small planes had "pilot relief tubes" in the cockpit for the piots to urinate into and this just drained out of the plane. These tubes can still be bought and installed in small private planes.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Many small planes, carrying a few passengers, had a padded seat that disguised a toilet. Planes like the Beechcraft and Cessna 421 had such things. Some had small holding tanks for solid waste or plastic bags, some could be drained out on the ground or in flight by a trap door. Many small planes had "pilot relief tubes" in the cockpit for the piots to urinate into and this just drained out of the plane. These tubes can still be bought and installed in small private planes.

Holy shit! ( pun intended )

It is bad enough when you use the toilet at McDonald's and there is a guy brapping away in the stall, at least you can leave. Up in the air you are a captive audience.

 

[smiley1437]

How do the ladies fit a relief tube? Must have been messy.

Pic unrelated

 

[multiman]

http://www.chiefaircraft.com/pilot-shop/pilot-relief.html

Here this company sells both male and female relief tubes for small planes, it's better than having wear a diaper on those long flights

 

[blackrock13]

In a conversation, a guy told me that he remembered as a kid flying in a propeller airplane. When people went to the toilet and flushed, a little trap door opened and the waste was ejected into the sky. I do not know if this was the actual case or if he had a false memory from a long time ago. If crap really fell from the skies, would there not be a hit on a pedestrian once in a while? Even a hit of a wad of wet used toilet paper is not too pleasant.

I think that waste was collected into a holding tank and removed when the flight was over, like it is today on jet aircraft.

Not much has changed over time, just a little more refined and controlled. Check out the term Blue Ice and aircraft