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The Lockheed L-049 Constellation. TWA's flagship plane advertised the cutting-edge technology of the time. First of all, the Constellation would ...
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In 1953 the Lockheed Super Constellation rolled off the assembly line, a state-of-the-art plane with new Wright engines. The Super Connie, larger and faster than its predecessor, with a cruising speed of 335 m.p.h., held 102 passengers and could remain in the air for over 3,500 miles nonstop. It was powered by four Turbo-Compound R-3350-872TCC18DA-1 engines, each delivering 3,250 horsepower. One hundred and forty-two military versions of the Super Connie were manufactured for the U.S. Navy throughout the 1950s. Douglas introduced its DC-7 in 1953 to compete with the Super Connie. One generation of Lockheed’s Constellation would follow another until the plane’s final incarnation in 1957, the L1649A Starliner, which, with four 3,400 horsepower Curtiss-Wright turbo-compound engines, flew from California to Paris in a nineteen hour non-stop journey via the North Pole, on October 10, 1957. Later in the month the Starliner remained in the air for twenty-three hours and twenty minutes. Douglas would immediately respond to the introduction of the Starliner with its own DC-7C. The Starliner, however, as the fastest piston-engine long-range airliner ever built, left Douglas’ plane in the dust. But the times were changing and the rise of the jet age through the 1950s would spell the end of the Constellation series. Faced with the introduction of the <anchor>Boeing 707</anchor> jet airliner, whose four Pratt & Whitney JT3 turbojets offered a cruising speed of 600 mph, the production of the Lockheed Constellation-Starliners ceased in February 1958. Eight hundred and fifty-six of the planes had been built over sixteen years. The Lockheed Constellation, which was Hughes’ brainchild and Kelly Johnson’s creation, remains one of the most distinctive, beautiful, and significant aircraft ever built.
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