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.
The Lanc is beautiful in a functional way. The Connie is absolutely gorgeous. I think it's probably the opposite as far as their sounds. I've never heard 4 synchronized Merlins together, only single ones, but they just purr.
The Connies were still flying into Washington National in the 60's before they finally allowed jets to fly in to National....the last Connie I saw was an Eastern Airlines plane, before they got scrapped in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale....
Recall going to the airport with my mom in late 50's to pick up dad, returning from business trips, usually TWA super constellations. The best part was watching the "boat" lower from the belly on 4 steel cables and the porters leaning in to get the luggage and cargo unloaded. It was a beautiful aircraft. Dad always said to never sit near the rear, it twisted the fuselage back there and induced a form of sea sickness. Sadly it was out of service by the time I took my first intercontinental flight in 1962 - in a brand spanking new Boeing 707 with PanAm livery. Flying was an adventure back then. Not any more, airlines are all the equivalent of a greyhound bus in the sky with about the same level of space and service.
Lancaster more pretty.
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The Lanc is beautiful in a functional way. The Connie is absolutely gorgeous. I think it's probably the opposite as far as their sounds. I've never heard 4 synchronized Merlins together, only single ones, but they just purr.
ReplyDeleteHave long thought the Connie one of the prettiest planes ever made. And I'm old enough to remember seeing them in service.
ReplyDeleteThey look like they're traveling a thousand miles an hour, standing still.
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The Connies were still flying into Washington National in the 60's before they finally allowed jets to fly in to National....the last Connie I saw was an Eastern Airlines plane, before they got scrapped in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale....
ReplyDeleteI got to fly a MATS Connie with a Navy crew from Travis to Hickam in 1962.
ReplyDeleteRecall going to the airport with my mom in late 50's to pick up dad, returning from business trips, usually TWA super constellations. The best part was watching the "boat" lower from the belly on 4 steel cables and the porters leaning in to get the luggage and cargo unloaded. It was a beautiful aircraft. Dad always said to never sit near the rear, it twisted the fuselage back there and induced a form of sea sickness. Sadly it was out of service by the time I took my first intercontinental flight in 1962 - in a brand spanking new Boeing 707 with PanAm livery. Flying was an adventure back then. Not any more, airlines are all the equivalent of a greyhound bus in the sky with about the same level of space and service.
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