by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On January 9, 1943, at the controls of the United States Army Air Forces, Boeing’s Chief Test Pilot, Eddie Allen, made the first flight of the […]
After our most recent report from Constellation connoisseur Ralph Pettersen concerning the status of President Eisenhower’s executive VC-121 Constellation transport, Columbine II, presently under rebuild with Dynamic Aviation in Bridgewater, Virginia, a number of questions […]
Following the profound shock and sadness we all felt in learning of Karl Stoltzfus untimely passing last November, there was an understandable concern over what his death might mean to the continuation of various historical […]
It has been a couple of months since our last update on Columbine II, the Lockheed VC-121A Constellation which President Dwight D. Eisenhower used during the early years of his first term of office. This […]
By Richard Mallory Allnutt (editor) Echoing loudly across the expansive, high-bay hangar, one can hear the staccato clatter of rivet guns and high-pitched squeal of air-powered drills tearing into sheet aluminum. There is a whole […]
We have been following the Qantas Founders Museum and their efforts to recover, restore and preserve a Lockheed Super Constellation for the past six years, and are happy to announce that the fully restored aircraft is […]
For the past five years, we have been following the saga of the Qantas Founders Museum in Australia and their efforts to recover and restore a Lockheed Constellation in the livery of an original Qantas […]
Qantas Founders Museum (QFM) has made some significant progress with their Lockheed C-121J Super Constellation Bu.131643. As many of our readers will be well aware, this aircraft has sat outside at Manila International Airport in the […]
In a continuation of our previous article on Lufthansa Technik’s project to return a Lockheed L-1649A Starliner to airline service, we now report on the restoration progress so far. The project has two Starliners at their base […]
The Lockheed Constellation is one of the most iconic airliners ever built, and one could even go so far as to say it is one of the most beautiful aircraft ever designed. The Constellation still resonates […]
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