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By: 21st September 2014 at 20:59 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Thanks for the pictures Darren, nice to see.
There's a dedicated group looking after this aircraft, L'Amicale du Super Constellation. I've been on their mailing list for a couple of years, and I've recently picked up an email advertising an open weekend on Sept 27th-28th, ie. next weekend. I thought I'd mention it in case there's anyone able to go, I can't be there. More details on the website.
By: 21st September 2014 at 21:56 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Great pictures thanks for sharing them
By: 22nd September 2014 at 09:05 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Excellent photos... but I still don't see why people view the Connie as a beautiful aircraft. To my mind it looks like something you might find on a wet fish counter.
By: 22nd September 2014 at 12:32 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-. . . . . . . . To my mind it looks like something you might find on a wet fish counter.Yikes! :)
Fortunately beauty is depending on the eye on the beholder. And how wonderful that is :)
To me the Connie is the most beautiful of all 'tube liners', of any era. It has a certain 'eagle-ish' look.
A colleague of mine saw - and heard! - a Connie take of (From Duxford ?) and was duly impressed. Apparently a sight and sound never to forget.
And I am NOT envious . . . . . . . not at all . . . . . . . . . . . :angel:
By: 22nd September 2014 at 17:00 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Is my memory deceiving me but do I remember a Connie being used as a restaurant somewhere on the outskirts of Strasbourg ?? It would have been late 60s or early 70s.
Colin.
By: 22nd September 2014 at 17:11 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Is my memory deceiving me but do I remember a Connie being used as a restaurant somewhere on the outskirts of Strasbourg ?? It would have been late 60s or early 70s.Colin.
I think they tried that for a while outside Faro airport in Portugal, but the thing was scrapped in the end.
By: 22nd September 2014 at 17:19 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-This was definitely Strasbourg as I was driving home from Switzerland and I've not been to Faro.
By: 22nd September 2014 at 17:32 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Nothing beats the sight and sound close up of a Super G(or a L1049H) taking of at dusk.
By: 22nd September 2014 at 22:06 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-This was definitely Strasbourg as I was driving home from Switzerland and I've not been to Faro.
The constellation in question was F-BHMJ, which was destroyed by fire in 1978. See the link below:
http://aviatechno.net/constellation/suivi_matricule.php?mat=F-BHMJ
By: 22nd September 2014 at 22:47 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-[ATTACH=CONFIG]231921[/ATTACH]Another Super Connie in France is F-BHBG, which I think still exists outside Quimper in Brittany. I have not seen it for about 20 years but think it may still be there as a restaurant called the Windmill if I remember correctly.
By: 23rd September 2014 at 07:46 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Another Super Connie in France is F-BHBG, which I think still exists outside Quimper in Brittany. I have not seen it for about 20 years but think it may still be there as a restaurant called the Windmill if I remember correctly.
See http://www.pyperpote.tonsite.biz/patrimoines/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=130:lockheed-l1049g-82-98-qsuper-constellationq-f-bhbg-le-puch-29-&catid=2:pots-de-fleur&Itemid=5 - and, perhaps, weep?
By: 23rd September 2014 at 14:05 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Sorry to see it in that state, so many of these machines end up like that.
By: 23rd September 2014 at 15:56 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Daveg4otu, you are absolutely right about the sight of a Super-Connie taking off at dusk. I'm slightly surprised Feather *3 hasn't been along (he pilots the HARS Connie in Oz) to mention that they are a favourite airshow act just by starting up when it has gone dark. It really makes modern jet startups look very dull.
By: 23rd September 2014 at 18:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Nothing beats the sight and sound close up of a Super G(or a L1049H) taking of at dusk.
I'm just old enough to remember the sound of the Luxair Starliners that operated into and out of Gatwick in the late sixties.
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By: darren - 19th September 2014 at 22:18
Came across this old lady on my summer hols…