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27-11-2007, 09:59 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Outer reaches, Melbourne, Victoria
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You're Top Poster: #2   | Yes, it certainly is one that I definitely have to keep reminding myself about. Wonderful aircraft, perhaps one of the most beautiful things to take to the air. Lockheed Constellation and Super Constellation Survivors
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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27-11-2007, 10:40 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Certainly an impressive aircraft though I've always associated it with teh Korean War - wrong, I know, because a few were used at the tail end of the war. Not sure about the most beautiful Andy. But then again sum people think the Bristol Brabazon was beautiful (I'm not one of them).
__________________ _________________  Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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27-11-2007, 10:50 PM
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You're Top Poster: #10 | Agreed, certainly one of the most beautiful aircraft ever. For the last few airshow seasons we've been promised one of the two flyers over here in Britain, but it never seems to materialise; this year I think it ended up stuck in Greenland with engine trouble. However a mate from another forum in Australia sent me this photo, of Qantas' preserved Connie (note the feathered no.2 prop). Ok, Qantas never operated them when they were new, but at least they have a sense of history unlike a certain British airline which just scrapped its last 707 and its last Trident |
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27-11-2007, 10:52 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Qantas bought quite a few and run them through the 50's/60's? Photos: Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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27-11-2007, 10:54 PM
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__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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27-11-2007, 10:59 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | AR, they scrapped them? What the...?! "Our" Connie is owned by HARS ( Historical Aircraft Restoration Society - you'll love what they've got, wait for the pics to scroll on the front page for the exhaust pic and check out the "patches" on the Cat...she's getting blisters!!) and done up in a mostly QANTAS scheme. Quaint arse, as we like to call it, did fly Super Connies but not the Connie from new as you said. They obviously had good taste. A mate of mine, ex-RAN post-war, used to live in Sydney and when he and his family watched TV they always knew when the Connies were taking off as they'd fly between the TV transmitter and his house and block out the TV reception for a couple of seconds! You are spot on re QANTAS and its sense of history. I think the 707 that was recovered from the UK recently and flown to Australia for parking at the museum at Longreach was the first 707 operated by the airline! RAAF just retired the last of the 707 VIP/air tankers as well about a month or two ago. The HARS Connie comes to Kalgoorlie once a year on charter for the Diggers and Dealers conference in August. I was in Kal the week before but a good friend went down to the airport and took a pic of her through the fence while drooling. Must get there next year just to see her!
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. Last edited by Antipodean Andy; 27-11-2007 at 11:03 PM. |
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27-11-2007, 11:07 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Connie in Kal. Sigh. 
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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