randall1959

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This big, beautiful bird is part of a commercial aviation museum in Kansas City. Today I was lucky enough to see it coming in on final and got the landing on video
http://www.hustjona.com/randall/VIDEO/DSCN0638.wmv

BBriBro

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Awesome, my dad was a flight engineer on the super connie for Eastern and Capitol in the 50s and 60s.

FLYBOY

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We had a connie on the end of the runway where I went to flight school. They broke it en route to a museum. It was there the whole time. I am told that they tried to fly it out after I left and had a problem, brought it back, left it for another few months, then got it fixed and flew it home. Was a cool looking bird. There is one in Helena Montana with a huge hump on its back. Gotta be some kind of radar thing for weather or tracking something. They haven't flown it in years. I think the A&P school uses it for training. Sweet looking bird.

aaron2874

Sweet! I just love those unexpected airplane treats. You never know when you're going to get one. They are so rare that is just makes them more enjoyable when they do happen.

Ed Toner

I flew the Connies for TWA in 1957, Seaboard and Western 1958, and they farmed me out to Aer Lingus.

http://airlines.afriqonline.com/images/px5112.jpg

I got furloughed, was recalled to ACTDY, sent to Saufley, instructed in the T-34 for 3 years, then got orders to VR-7A, Tachikawa AFB, where I flew them as the C-121, but we always called them the R7V.

By this time, I had been recalled to TWA, no more Connies, instead I flew the Convair 880's.