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Originally Posted by flipper35

Trivia question, anyone know why the fuselage is a flattened "S" shape?

It curves upward at the rear to raise the triple tail out of the prop wash and slightly downward at the front so the nose-gear strut didn’t have to be impossibly long. Lockheed decided that the airplane’s admittedly large propellers needed even more ground clearance than did Douglas or Boeing on their competing transports, which resulted in the Connie’s long, spindly gear legs.

The Legendary Lockheed Constellation | HistoryNet