AirPigz is becoming my "go-to" site for excellent plane pr0n of late. Today's subject is the Lockheed Super Constellation... for which we went to Airpigz to get a view of those massive flame-belching Wright R-3350’s from inside a Connie during take-off. That particular video was interesting as all get-out, but it was the associated videos (thank you, YouTube!) that really floated my lil boat. Here are a couple:
The voice-over in the first video observes that every era has its iconic aircraft and the Connie was one such in the 1940s and '50s. I can vouch for that fact.
Those of you who have been with me for a while know that I attended the third, fourth, and fifth grades at the DoD dependent school on Orly Field... the USAF portion of Orly International Airport in Paris. That was back in the day when kids had a LOT more freedom than they do these days and my schoolmates and I would often spend our lunch hour in the snack bar in the international terminal, where we would eat lunch while watching passengers boarding or deplaning from the airliners of the day... chief of which were the Connie and the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser... essentially a civilianized B-29. It's easy to tell which was the more beautiful bird...
Fat and ungainly versus lithe, sleek, and sassy. They simply don't make 'em like that any longer... and I wish to Hell I would have had the opportunity to fly in a Connie. Alas, my piston-engine airliner experiences were limited to DC-3s and DC-7s. More's the pity.
And there ya have my nostalgia fix for the day.
And this spectacular night take-off...
The voice-over in the first video observes that every era has its iconic aircraft and the Connie was one such in the 1940s and '50s. I can vouch for that fact.
Those of you who have been with me for a while know that I attended the third, fourth, and fifth grades at the DoD dependent school on Orly Field... the USAF portion of Orly International Airport in Paris. That was back in the day when kids had a LOT more freedom than they do these days and my schoolmates and I would often spend our lunch hour in the snack bar in the international terminal, where we would eat lunch while watching passengers boarding or deplaning from the airliners of the day... chief of which were the Connie and the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser... essentially a civilianized B-29. It's easy to tell which was the more beautiful bird...
The Stratocruiser.
The Super-Connie.
Fat and ungainly versus lithe, sleek, and sassy. They simply don't make 'em like that any longer... and I wish to Hell I would have had the opportunity to fly in a Connie. Alas, my piston-engine airliner experiences were limited to DC-3s and DC-7s. More's the pity.
And there ya have my nostalgia fix for the day.
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