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Originally Posted by recycled sixtie
I did enter a Lancaster about fifteen years ago.... The main obstruction to get into the cockpit from the back of the aircraft was the wing root. Had to literally crawl over it so little wonder that exiting was a challenge...
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That's the wing spar. A mid-wing plane has that issue...
Part of the reason the B-17 had a low wing and the B-24 had a high wing.
B-29 had the same issue, had a pressurized tunnel over the spar to the rear.