Author Topic: toilets on board ?? (Read 814 times)

ghi · « **on:** September 27, 2003, 03:44:17 PM »

Did the crew have toilets on board of the bombers in long missions?? or they saved " ordnance" until bomb bay were open over tgt??
What about the fighters in escort?? Diapers & relief tubes??
Would be nice to get relief tubes in AH2, but different sizes (M,XXL)

relief tubes

Max · « **Reply #1 on:** September 27, 2003, 10:01:47 PM »

piddle packs were collected and dumped over Bremen where they were collected and used to brew Becks...it's my story and I'm sticking to it.

DmdMax
Damned MkXX

Cooley · « **Reply #2 on:** September 28, 2003, 03:11:15 AM »

Been a while since i read "The Wild Blue" but I seem to remember that they didnt have em

And what he said ^ abouts Beck's, what a nasty beer:D

Edit: Yeah, I know most US beer is nasty also, but I drink Red Hook, Sierra Nevada etc etc. Not disimilar to a Newcastle Brown or Samuel Smith Ale

Replicant · « **Reply #3 on:** September 28, 2003, 05:45:53 AM »

B17 and Lancasters had them, dunno about other planes.

Furball · « **Reply #4 on:** September 28, 2003, 06:42:38 AM »

was in a Sunderland a few days ago, that has a toilet, and even a mini workshop for minor repairs.

Karnak · « **Reply #5 on:** September 28, 2003, 02:42:45 PM »

H8K "Emily" had them.

I'd be very surprised if the B-29 didn't. It had bunks after all.

As to fighters, well, you should have gone before flying. But if you have to go, you have to go. You'll have a pretty unpleasant mess to deal with though.

davidpt40 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 28, 2003, 02:59:58 PM »

B17s had a bucket you could poop in, and a small tube that you could urinate in.

Quite a few airmen died from eating foods that caused gas. At 30,000 feet their intestines could and sometimes would burst.

airbumba · « **Reply #7 on:** September 28, 2003, 04:21:23 PM »

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Originally posted by davidpt40

Quite a few airmen died from eating foods that caused gas. At 30,000 feet their intestines could and sometimes would burst.

Every time I read that it freaks me out. I keep picturing a german spy infiltarting the 8th Air corp as a cook and feeding all the men chilli for supper....

Is nothin sacred in war:(

Bumba

Staga · « **Reply #8 on:** September 28, 2003, 04:39:56 PM »

iirc even H-75s had "relief" tube.

JAWS2003 · « **Reply #9 on:** September 30, 2003, 10:39:14 AM »

check this story of a p51 pilot

funny story

Rutilant · « **Reply #10 on:** September 30, 2003, 12:12:04 PM »

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Originally posted by davidpt40
B17s had a bucket you could poop in, and a small tube that you could urinate in.

Quite a few airmen died from eating foods that caused gas. At 30,000 feet their intestines could and sometimes would burst.

awww.. how.. morbid

So you only had to fart on the way up or what?

MwXX · « **Reply #11 on:** September 30, 2003, 01:15:12 PM »

ok, question about that pony pilot...for all you "historians" on airplane specs...

he mentioned 5 hours of flight? was that possible with 100% and drop tanks? if so, MAN, what a rice burner!!!

LMAO:rolleyes:

klem · « **Reply #12 on:** September 30, 2003, 02:49:49 PM »

P51D often credited with 8 hours plus

Curval · « **Reply #13 on:** September 30, 2003, 03:07:46 PM »

There was a story about a co-pilot (I think) of a B17 who would hold off pooping until over Germany on every mission. Just before the bomb run he would relieve himself into a bag of some sort and when the bombs were dropped he dropped that out too.

He called it the schiese bomb or something...someone posted it a while back.

fffreeze220 · « **Reply #14 on:** September 30, 2003, 03:15:26 PM »

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Originally posted by DMax
piddle packs were collected and dumped over Bremen where they were collected and used to brew Becks...it's my story and I'm sticking to it.

DmdMax
Damned MkXX

Allright dude now u got an enemy