Precarious cargo: Fascinating images reveal that babies on plane journeys in the 1950s were simply placed in overhead cradles
- Vintage images have emerged revealing how families would travel in the 1950s
- Babies were placed in sky cots attached to the overhead luggage bins
- Air stewards are pictured attending to the children during the journeys
Flying with children has never been easy.
But before the days of special seat belt attachments and sky nannies parents took a more cavalier approach to childcare, simply placing babies in cradles that hung above their heads.
Fascinating vintage images, dating back to the 1950s, have emerged revealing that ‘skycots’ were attached to the overhead luggage bin, with children placed inside for the journey’s duration.
Parents travelling with babies would place their youngsters in bassinets hanging above passengers’ heads. This shot dates back to 1953 and shows smartly dressed families on-board a British Overseas Airways Corporation (British Airways’ predecessor) aircraft
Similar to nowadays, parents would have to hold their offspring during take-off and landing during these early days of commercial flight
One of the shots, from 1953, shows smartly dressed families on-board a British Overseas Airways Corporation (British Airways’ predecessor) aircraft with a child being attended to by an air steward.
Similar to nowadays, parents would have to hold their offspring during take-off and landing during these early days of commercial flight, according to Bored Panda.
However, despite the glossy images, flights of yesteryear were noisy and somewhat turbulent veteran fliers have previously revealed in a fascinating online forum thread.
Seen and not heard? Despite the glamorous images, some veteran travellers claim that flying in the 50s was extremely loud. Here parents offer their youngster a bottle of milk
Quora posters were quick to contradict air travel’s reputation for absolute glamour in the 50s revealing that despite vintage photos depicting leisurely journeys, on board it was actually a noisy ride racked with turbulence.
Quora user Andy Kerr remembered take-offs being dramatic.
He shared: 'The brakes released with a bang, and you slammed back into your seat as the plane leapt forward down the runway. It was awe-inspiring, and visceral, better than any roller coaster.’
Veteran holidaymakers admitted that unless you rented headphones there wasn't much by way of in-flight entertainment and that it was difficult to hear the entertainment over the engine noise, either way.
Private pilot Colin Teubner also added: ‘There was a smoking section and a non-smoking section on the plane, but the whole place reeked of smoke.'
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