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Lockheed Constellation

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Author : Graham M Simons
Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 1526758873
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Lockheed Constellation written by Graham M Simons and published by Air World. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated history “recounts the unusual and sometimes dramatic development and operational career of one of the twentieth century’s most iconic airliners” (Aviation History Magazine). Clarence “Kelly” Johnson’s design for the Lockheed Constellation, known affectionately as the Connie, produced one of the world’s most iconic airliners. Lockheed had been working on the L-044 Excalibur, a four-engine, pressurized airliner, since 1937. In 1939, Trans World Airlines, at the instigation of major stockholder Howard Hughes, requested a forty-passenger transcontinental aircraft with a range of 3,500 miles, well beyond the capabilities of the Excalibur design. TWA’s requirements led to the L-049 Constellation, designed by Lockheed engineers including Kelly Johnson and Hall Hibbard. Between 1943 and 1958, Lockheed built 856 Constellations in numerous models at its Burbank, California, factory—all with the same distinctive and immediately recognizable triple-tail design and dolphin-shaped fuselage. The Constellation was used as a civil airliner and as a military and civilian air transport, seeing service in the Berlin and the Biafran airlifts. Three of them served as the presidential aircraft for Dwight D. Eisenhower. After World War II, TWA’s transatlantic service began on February 6, 1946 with a New York-Paris flight in a Constellation. Then, on June 17, 1947, Pan Am opened the first-ever scheduled round-the-world service with their L-749 Clipper America. With revealing insight into the Lockheed Constellation, the renowned aviation historian Graham M. Simons examines its design, development, and service, both military and civil. In doing so, he reveals the story of a design which, as the first pressurized airliner in widespread use, helped to usher in affordable and comfortable air travel around the world. “Simons makes good use of black-and-white and color photographs of Constellations in various airline markings and includes colorful airline brochures and marketing posters featuring the aircraft.” —Air Power History

Lockheed Constellation & Super Constellation

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Author : Scott E. Germain
Publisher : Specialty Press (MN)
ISBN 13 : 9781580070003
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Lockheed Constellation & Super Constellation written by Scott E. Germain and published by Specialty Press (MN). This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series provides the enthusiast with a first-ever look at the structure, design, systems, and operation of these high tech wonders of the air. Contains engineering drawings, tech manual excerpts, exploded views, overhaul handbooks, cockpit photos, pilot manual excerpts, factory assembly photos, and more.

Lockheed Constellation

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Author : Dominique Breffort
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782915239621
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Lockheed Constellation written by Dominique Breffort and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2005-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed just before World War II after special instructions from the American tycoon Howard Hughes, the Lockheed Constellation is celebrated today as one of the finest flying machines ever built. As a civilian aircraft, it has been the first airliner able to cross the Atlantic Ocean non stop, but it also has had a respectable military career, thanks to its brilliant characteristics which allowed it to fulfill missions of electronic warfare and AWACS.

Lockheed's Constellation

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Author : Steve Pace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610607308
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Lockheed's Constellation written by Steve Pace and published by . This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a dedicated passenger airliner, the Lockheed Constellation was referred to as "Queen of the Skies." As a devoted warbird, she was called upon o serve the armed forces. Elegant, graceful, and extremely photogenic, the legendary "Connie" remains one of the most sought-after aircraft for airshow appearances. Witness these beautiful aircraft in this fine collection of color photographs depicting the planes in both civilian and military dress, as well as in U.S. and foreign markings. Piston-powered and propeller-driven, triple-tailed and shaped like a dolphin, the Constellation, Super Constellation, and Starliner series are bona fide classics.

Lockheed Constellation

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Author : Curtis K. Stringfellow
Publisher : Motorbooks
ISBN 13 : 9780879383794
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Lockheed Constellation written by Curtis K. Stringfellow and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume in an exciting new series about piston-engined civil airliners of the 1940s and '50s, this book uses the best archival material available from Lockheed and several U.S. airlines to illustrate the complexity of building what was arguably the most stylish piston-engined airliner ever -- the majestic Constellation. Created in response to a requirement issued by the flamboyant owner of TWA, Howard Hughes, in late 1939, the Constellation was soon ordered by other airlines due to its unmatched ability to fly non-stop from the East Coast to the West Coast at a constant 300 miles per hour. All the major prototype, pre-production, and civil service variants are shown in production ar the Lockheed plant in California, and in service with various operators around the globe. Period color photography is also included, featuring Lockheed and airline advertisements. Detailed captions and a concise narrative outline the manufacturing procedures, while appendices includes comprehensive production batch lists, performance data, and a double-page cutaway.

Lockheed C-121 Constellation

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Author : Steve Ginter
Publisher : Aviation Book Company
ISBN 13 : 9780942612080
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Lockheed C-121 Constellation written by Steve Ginter and published by Aviation Book Company. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The photos in this edition are black and white. In 1943 the Lockheed Model 49 Constellation was the fastest and most modern airliner in the world. They were purchased by the USAAC as C-69s and in 1948 the larger more capable Model 749 was purchased as the C-121A. This early Naval Fighters Series volume first published in 1983 covers the USAAC/USAF C-121A, the Navy PO-1W/WV-1 AEW version of the Model 749 from 1949, the stretched Model 1049 Navy transport R7O-1/R7V-1 from 1952, the Air Force Model 1049 versions C-121C/EC-121S/C-121G/AC-121/EC-121R, Navy WV-2/EC-121K AEW and Air Force EC-121C/EC-121D AEW platforms, and the experimental WV-2E/EC-121L AEW aircraft and the turbo-prop R7V-2/YC-121F transport. Book includes brief Navy squadron histories, detail drawings, and essays on flying the Connie, Vietnam, College Eye/Big Eye, 552nd AEW, Bat Cat and AEWBARRONPAC.

Lockheed Constellation

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Author : Kenneth E. Wixey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780711017351
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Lockheed Constellation written by Kenneth E. Wixey and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Author : Jim Winchester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lockheed Constellation written by Jim Winchester and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of a new series that looks at classic postwar airliners. This volume charts the design and development of the Lockheed Constellation, from pre-war proposals to the sophisticated outcome. It includes a technical walk-round and descriptions of variants, and also a production list.

Tiger in the Sea

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Author : Eric Lindner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493031570
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Tiger in the Sea written by Eric Lindner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: September 1962: On a moonless night over the raging Atlantic Ocean, a thousand miles from land, the engines of Flying Tiger flight 923 to Germany burst into flames, one by one. Pilot John Murray didn’t have long before the plane crashed headlong into the 20-foot waves at 120 mph. As the four flight attendants donned life vests, collected sharp objects, and explained how to brace for the ferocious impact, 68 passengers clung to their seats: elementary schoolchildren from Hawaii, a teenage newlywed from Germany, a disabled Normandy vet from Cape Cod, an immigrant from Mexico, and 30 recent graduates of the 82nd Airborne’s Jump School. They all expected to die. Murray radioed out “Mayday” as he attempted to fly down through gale-force winds into the rough water, hoping the plane didn’t break apart when it hit the sea. Only a handful of ships could pick up the distress call so far from land. The closest was a Swiss freighter 13 hours away. Dozens of other ships and planes from 9 countries abruptly changed course or scrambled from Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, and Cornwall, all racing to the rescue—but they would take hours, or days, to arrive. From the cockpit, the blackness of the Atlantic grew ever closer. Could Murray do what no pilot had ever done—“land” a commercial airliner at night in a violent sea without everyone dying? And if he did, would rescuers find any survivors before they drowned or died from hypothermia in the icy water? The fate of Flying Tiger 923 riveted the world. Bulletins interrupted radio and TV programs. Headlines shouted off newspapers from London to LA. Frantic family members overwhelmed telephone switchboards. President Kennedy took a break from the brewing crises in Cuba and Mississippi to ask for hourly updates. Tiger in the Sea is a gripping tale of triumph, tragedy, unparalleled airmanship, and incredibly brave people from all walks of life. The author has pieced together the story—long hidden because of murky Cold War politics—through exhaustive research and reconstructed a true and inspiring tribute to the virtues of outside-the-box-thinking, teamwork, and hope.

Queen of the Skies

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Author : Claude G. Luisada
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764346392
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Queen of the Skies written by Claude G. Luisada and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2014 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary commercial propeller transport, the Lockheed Constellation burst on the aviation scene in the early 1940s. Unheralded for the most part, due to wartime secrecy, it finally entered commercial service in 1946, and promptly set new standards for speed, range, reliability, and passenger comfort. The Connie, as it was affectionately known, pioneered new flight paths in many parts of the globe. Connies ultimately flew commercially for more than thirty years, and underwent countless modifications and upgrades during that time. They continued to be utilized by the military as well; in fact, Connies were involved in a number of endeavors that remain shrouded in secrecy to this day. This, then, is the story of a remarkable and distinctive airplane. It is also the story of the people who made the Constellation great, including aviation legends like Howard Hughes and Clarence "Kelly" Johnson. Most importantly, however, it is a story that sheds light on the dynamics of technology, politics, and society in the years 1940 to 1980. This revised edition contains an additional chapter on Constellations that are still flying today, as well as an additional appendix of the Constellation's operations manual.

The Dakota Hunter

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Author : Hans Wiesman
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1612002595
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Dakota Hunter written by Hans Wiesman and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of a lifelong passion for a WWII aircraft that changed the author’s life: “It is almost like an adventure novel except it is true” (Air Classics). This book tells the story of a Dutch boy who grew up during the 1950s in postwar Borneo, where he had frequent encounters with an airplane, the Douglas DC-3, a.k.a. the C-47 Skytrain or Dakota, of World War II fame. For a young boy living in a remote jungle community, the aircraft reached the proportions of a romantic icon as the essential lifeline to a bigger world for him, the beginning of a special bond. In 1957, his family left the island and all its residual wreckage of World War II, and he attended college in The Hague. After graduation, he started a career as a corporate executive—and met the aircraft again during business trips to the Americas. His childhood passion for the Dakota flared up anew, and the fascination pulled like a magnet. As if predestined, or maybe just looking for an excuse to come closer, he began a business to salvage and convert Dakota parts, which meant first of all finding them. As the demand for these war relic parts and cockpits soared, he began to travel the world to track down surplus, crashed, or derelict Dakotas. He ventured deeper and deeper into remote mountains, jungles, savannas, and the seas where the planes are found, usually as ghostly wrecks but sometimes still in full commercial operation. In hunting the mythical Dakota, he often encountered intimidating or dicey situations in countries plagued by wars or revolts, others by arms and narcotics trafficking, warlords, and conmen. The stories of these expeditions take the reader to some of the remotest spots in the world, but once there, one is often greeted by the comfort of what was once the West’s apex in transportation—however now haunted by the courageous airmen of the past.

Lockheed TriStar

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Author : Graham M. Simons
Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 1526758830
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Lockheed TriStar written by Graham M. Simons and published by Air World. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A thoughtful, well-organized overview from the beginning to the twilight days of this iconic airliner” by the highly regarded aviation historian (Large Scale Planes). In April 1972, after six grueling years of design and development, the then Lockheed California Company (now Lockheed Martin) delivered the most technologically advanced commercial jet of its era, the L-1011 TriStar, to its first client, Eastern Airlines. To mark the moment, Lockheed decided to make an impressive statement about the capabilities of its new medium-to-long-range, wide-body trijet airliner. It did so in spectacular fashion. Overseen by two test pilots, a total of 115 crew members, VIPs, Lockheed employees, and selected reporters boarded a TriStar at Lockheed’s Palmdale plant in California. The subsequent 4-hour, 13-minute flight to Washington Dulles Airport was achieved with virtually no input from the two pilots in the cockpit, the TriStar’s Automatic Flight Control System being “engaged from takeoff roll to landing.” It was, Lockheed proudly claimed, “the first cross-country flight without the need for human hands on the controls.” On the way to the L-1011’s inaugural flight, Lockheed battled through design challenges, financial difficulties, and even international allegations of bribery, with the result that the TriStar, famed for its large, curved nose, low-set wings, and graceful swept tail, remained in production until 1984, by when 250 examples had been built. The toll on Lockheed, however, was too great and after the TriStar it withdrew from the commercial aircraft business. In this revealing insight into the L-1011, the renowned aviation historian Graham M. Simons reveals the full story of this airliner’s design, development and service over the decades since 1970.

The Lockheed Constellation

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Author : Peter J. Marson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (176 download)

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Author : Peter J. Marson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780851303666
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Lockheed Constellation written by Peter J. Marson and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beskriver detaljeret og med mange illustrationer det amerikanske passager- og fragtfly fra 1943, Lockheed Constellation. Flyet fandtes i adskillige såvel militære som civile varianter.

Constellation

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Author : Adrien Bosc
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
ISBN 13 : 1782832009
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Constellation written by Adrien Bosc and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 27 October 1949, a Lockheed Constellation passenger plane left Paris for New York. Hours later, it disappeared on approach to its scheduled stopover in the Azores. It was found on a mountainside five miles from its intended landing zone. There were no survivors. Among those lost in the accident were heavyweight boxer Marcel Cerdan flying to New York for a world title fight; 30-year-old virtuoso violinist Ginette Neveu; Kay Kamen, Walt Disney's merchandising tsar; five Basque shepherds emigrating to America; a pilot who ran missions for the Free French during the war. Constellation tells the untold true stories of the forty-eight men and women who died on board, and paints a moving portrait of their place in the changing post-war world and of their hopes and dreams for the life awaiting them across the Atlantic. Adrien Bosc's magnetic debut novel is a memorial to an air disaster that happened half a century ago. But it is also a love song to the forgotten lives that every tragedy scatters around it like so much debris, and a poignant investigation into the nature of collective tragedy.

Lockheed Constellation in Colour

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Author : Scott Henderson
Publisher : Scoval Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781902236124
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Lockheed Constellation in Colour written by Scott Henderson and published by Scoval Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lockheed Constellation

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Author : Michael John Hardy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780715353776
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book The Lockheed Constellation written by Michael John Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: