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Beautiful... flames out of stacks. At cruise the flames are blue.

The Lockheed Constellation was easily the most beautiful piston airliner. Ever.

TWA flew them when I was a kid... to Albuquerque.

They called the Super Connie the 'Super G'.

They were more expensive to build than the DC-6/7 as every fuselege cross section is different (unlike the cigar of the DC's).

And Ike's 'Air Force One' was a Connie "The Columbine". (Yes, the term AF-1 had not been coined then.)



Good stuff, in those days, Continental was flying Vickers Viscount turboprops to ALB too, and the old Frontier was moving away from the DC-3 to the Convair 340.