And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Regretably after all the effort and millions of $ Lufthansa put in to restoring it to flying condition, it is now doomed for ever by being turned into a frigging cocktail lounge in NJ. https://www.pressherald.com/2018/10/08/rare-lockheed-at-lewiston-airport-soon-to-become-cocktail-lounge-at-jfk-airport/
great pix. the view makes it look muscular and powerful. a side shot makes the case for the elegant and svelte triple tailed beauty she is. tied down to the ramp and not runup for some time, don't see any life blood under the engines on the ramp. we used to shut the alternate air intake doors to keep the competition from nesting atop the master control.
Save-A-Connie, based at the downtown airport in Kansas City. I lived about 30 miles East, years ago on the weekends they would fly around KC. Nothing sounds quite like four big radial engines overhead.
Rode in Connies to and from Morocco as a kid in the 50s. 18 hours flight each way with stops in Goose Bay and the Azores iirc.
I have a set of cocktail glasses commemorating Eastern Airlines' premier flight of the Constellation. They were given to my parents as a Christmas gift from Eddie Rickenbacker, who was EA president at the time. Eddie is a much overlooked American hero.
Christmas wish list: I want the corvette show in the following picture.
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Regretably after all the effort and millions of $ Lufthansa put in to restoring it to flying condition, it is now doomed for ever by being turned into a frigging cocktail lounge in NJ.
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The Kansas City Downtown Airport still has one that flies.
DeleteOne of the cleanest, prettiest airplanes ever designed. Right up there with the P51-D, the F16, and the Blackbird.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that a Constellation?
ReplyDeleteAn elegant aircraft for a more civilized age.
ReplyDeleteNot a DC-3 but very nice.
ReplyDeleteI rode in one from Detroit to Phoenix in 1952, at least that is what my Mom told me, I was 2 at the time. We had a picture postcard at one time.
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great pix. the view makes it look muscular and powerful. a side shot makes the case for the elegant and svelte triple tailed beauty she is. tied down to the ramp and not runup for some time, don't see any life blood under the engines on the ramp. we used to shut the alternate air intake doors to keep the competition from nesting atop the master control.
ReplyDelete"Connie pilots can handle three pieces if tail at the same time"....
ReplyDeleteSave-A-Connie, based at the downtown airport in Kansas City. I lived about 30 miles East, years ago on the weekends they would fly around KC. Nothing sounds quite like four big radial engines overhead.
ReplyDeleteRode in Connies to and from Morocco as a kid in the 50s. 18 hours flight each way with stops in Goose Bay and the Azores iirc.
ReplyDeleteI have a set of cocktail glasses commemorating Eastern Airlines' premier flight of the Constellation. They were given to my parents as a Christmas gift from Eddie Rickenbacker, who was EA president at the time.
Eddie is a much overlooked American hero.
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