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 ...ed million passenger-miles of
service, the product is a great advancement over
the one that first left the factory.
In other words, an airplane
develops and grows just as people do.
When the Lockheed Constellation first went into service,
it was far superior to any other transport on the airlines.
The new Lockheed Constellation
is also the finest transport in the air today.
And the earlier Constel...
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SAUNDERS VALVE COMPANY LIMITED
Aircraft Division
CWMBRAN, MONMOUTHSHIRE, ENGLAND
Lockheed
SUPER CONSTELLATION
DEMAND WORLD-WIDE
Unfilled orders for the Super Constellation now total
more than $250,000,000, Robert E. Gross, president
of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation disclosed in his
annual r...
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 ...8 SEPTEMBER 1950 FLIGHT
The Famous
Constellation
NOW IN SERVICE
FOR SOUTH AFRICAN
AIRWAYS
•
Another great airline—the South African
Airways—has added luxury service to its inter-
national routes by flying Lockheed Constellations,
the m...
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 ...s for the starting of all the latest types
of aircraft.
JM.
[UREX AIRCRAFT GROUND POWER UNITS
MUREX WELDING PROCESSES LIMITED,
WALTHAM CROSS, HERTS. TELEPHONE: WALTHAM CROSS 3634.
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SUPER CONSTELLATION
MAKES MONEY
FOR AIRLINES
On the opposite page you will see travel posters
representing the world airlines that have selected the
Lockheed Constellation and Super Constellation.
The...
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 ...onstellation (S.A.A.).
Stratocruiser (N.W.A.).
LOCKHEED CONSTELLATION • The beautiful Constel
lation will probably be remembered as the "Queen Mary" of
piston-engined transports. Originally desig...
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 ...lt to withstand high pressures in brazed aluminium alloy.
MARSTON EXCELSIOR LTD.
(/4 subsidiary company of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.)
WOLVERHAMPTON & LEEDS
MAR. I OS
ANNOUNCES NEW
SUPER CONSTELLATION
ORDERS FROM 6 AIRLINES
The Constellation production line is now at its highest
peak in history, following receipt of new orders for Super
Constellations from six world airlines recen...
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 ...50 FLIGHT, 21 May 1954
Transport Aircraft • I9S4...
Lockheed Constellation with Speedpak (Eastern Air Lines).
Lockheed Super Constellation (Pakistan International Airlines).
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Over 70,000 lb (cont)
HANDLEY PAGE HERMES IV • First post-war pres su...
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 ...LIGHT FEBRUAR\ 25TH, 1943
The prototype on its first test flight was in the air for about an hour, including a cross-country trip.
Constellation
• Features of the New Lockheed Super Transport
Interested spectators of the first flight were Mr. R. A. VonHake (left), vice-president in charge of manufacture; Col. B. D.
Morley, U.S. A...
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 ..., 1948 FLIGHT Advertisements. 2%
"Pull yourself together, Walter,
anyone would think you're travelling by flying boat!"
Travellers can fly from Britain to Australia by Speedbird flying boat or Q.E.A.
Constellation. Those pressed for time travel by Constellation, the world's fastest
commercial airliner. Others, with more time to spare, prefer the somewhat slower
pace of the roomier Speedbird flying...
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 ...8 APRIL 1952 FLIGHT 9
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Lockheed Presents The
SUPER CONSTELLATION
An even finer version of the
World's Most Experienced Airliner
Lockheed's new Super Constellation combines the un
matched record of experience and dependability of the
ivorld-famous...
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 ...EPTEMBER 1952 FLIGHT
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THE COȤTEUilTIOM & SVPER IOXSII II VIIO\
On every continent of the world leading
airlines fly the famous Constellation.
Today more people fly over oceans and
continents on the Constellations of these
great airlines than on any other modem
aeroplane. It is also the leader on the most
travelled route,...
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 ...ures Lab at Lockheed's
Factory B-l in Burbank. These boys are experts.
Not long ago their entire career consisted of delib-
erately ruining the meticulously engineered assem-
blies that went into the Constellation, just to see if
the parts came up to Lockheed's exacting standards.
For instance: they took up number 61 (the first
Constellation), blew a hole in one of the two tires on
the nose landin...
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 ...ONSTELLATION
MATS Connie will appear at 16 US air shows in 199$
Star attraction
GUY NORRIS/LOS ANGELES
Rising up through the early morning mist like a ghost from some bygone era, the silver Lockh...
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 ...h aircraft now enjoy in this respect.
GRAVINER
Airborne FIRE PROTECTION EQUIPMENT
THE GRAVINER MANUFACTURING CO. LTD.
POYLE MILL WORKS, COLNBROOK, BUCKS. Tel. Colnbrook 48
G.R.4
Lockheed
SUPER CONSTELLATION
ASSURES MANY YEARS OF
COMPETITIVE PERFORMANCE
Compared with any of today's certificated
aircraft the new Super Constellation is superior
in versatility, speed, pay-load, range and a...
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 ... of Europe's leading suppliers of
military aircraft.
The Milan is a development of the
Near-miss Dear Heathrow
At 1842 BST on January 9 a near-
miss incident occurred between an Indian
Air Force Constellation and an Olympic
Airways Boeing 727 which was five miles
from touchdown at Heathrow.
Two inquiries have been set up by
the BoT. The first is by the NATCS
Airmiss Working Group—virtual...
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 ...in a
Stephen Piercey, youngest member of the Flight editorial staff,
has (to the relief of the editor) at last achieved one of his greatest
ambitions: to fly in a Connie. Here is his report.
T HE Constellation sits on the airport ramp, its nose riding high and proud. Passers-by give it a fleeting glance but look away seconds later to watch a 747 freighter dis
gorge its load. The Connie looks ...
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 ... JNSTELLATION
Although 856 Constellations and 44 Starliners (the ultimate version of the type) were made between 1942 and 1958, only around 69 are thought to still exist. Of these,
almost 30 are threatened with eventual destru...
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 ... August 1958 197
Veteran
Constellations
By DENNIS M. POWELL
IN an article entitled "Across Three Oceans" (August 6,1954),the Editor-in-Chief of Flight said, "I always enjoy the feelof a Constellation take-off because it roars...
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 ...g next to a comparison of performance for the con-
verted Convair 340 with those of the original aircraft (seeperformance curves at foot of page 317, and similar curves com-
paring DC-6B and Lockheed Constellation 749 performance),the lecturer summarized the outstanding improvements as
follows: (1) The increase in take-off power was 2,200 h.p.,achieved with a saving in weight of 500 lb; (2) with t...
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 ...two airmisses which took place in the London TMA within eight weeks during
the winter of 1969-70. Accident report No 3/71 deals with
the incident on January 9, 1970, when an Indian Air Force
Super Constellation, BG579, passed close to Olympic Air
ways Boeing 727 SX-CBB.
BG579 was operating a regular flight from India to
Northolt but when London Approach attempted to hand
control over to Nor...
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