^^^ Connie.

With these engines:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1421119889.jpg

Good picture of the Wright R 3350 ! A compounded engine to boot with 3 PRT's. Those were the days! Burned more 115/145 octane fuel at start up than a car would use all day long.

I flew on one of those once. Here we are in Hawaii back in 1958 about to get back on board to continue on to Wake Island, Guam and finally Okinawa.
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Lockheed Constellation was a great airplane with beautiful lines. I've got a few thousand hours in "Connies". Weak point on the 3350 turbo compound engine pictured was the PRT turbos that self destructed on a regular basis.

gamin....where did you get the "Connie" time?

Is it possible to give a very simple explanation of a "compound" engine:


Someone else posted this - it really speaks to me for some reason!

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FLYGEEZER - Navy, many moons ago.

Maybe this would help:
Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It talks about how the "PRT" or "power recovery turbine" (aka parts recovery turbine) can cause the engine to burn exhaust valves.

Looking good! How many years until paint starts?

That's a turbo-compound engine from an L-1049 series Super Constellation. The Air France artwork shows an earlier L-049/749 airplane without the turbo-compound engines.

Super Connie:

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...C-121GGB-1.jpg

More of my Connie photos. The Air Force called them EC-121s and I believe the Navy called them WVs. I think this was a typhoon tracker WV-3 attached to the VW-1 squadron stationed on Guam.
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http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1421261366.jpg

Count me in this camp. It looks like every other berserk, ultra supercar; overwrought, pointless 'design'. This and the new Corvette are silly examples of the "Transformer" school of styling. If a person wants $$$ high-performance in a car, why do they have to put up with this kind of thing?

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