Tour Beverley XB259
Take look around and inside the ‘flying furniture van’ and see just how useful it was to the RAF and the Army who made excellent use of this leviathan.
The Freight Bay, which was enormouse for its time, along with a tail boom which held more people than many aircraft of the day, made the Beverley a truly versatile aircraft. Despite its ungainly appearance and slow speed, there was no other aircraft which could match it for what it could do. Its short take of and landing, combined with its ability to reverse allowed the Beverley to deliver freight and vehicles to airstrips no other large aircraft could get into.
The words“no other aircraft” became synonymous with the Beverley. After one got used to its appearance and what it could do, the wisdom of these words was abundantly clear.
XB259 at Fort Paull