Crash of the most beautiful plane of the century

Crash of the most beautiful plane of the century - TWA Flight 529

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@mbnemechek 2 жыл бұрын

My grandfather, Ray McLaughlin, 34 died on this flight when my dad was 8 years old. The biggest tragedy of my dad’s life. Watching this video made a deep impact on me, truly put me in the place of those who were in the crash. I can just imagine, being nearly completely vertical, with items and bags falling on you and you just know it is the end. I hope they all comforted each other in those last moments. RIP TWA flight 529 The first time I watched this, I was bawling. It’s really helped me understand how just one bolt could have taken the plane down. I now have a curiosity and have been studying the crash more, and even plan on going to chicago to see the memorial and meet people who are involved in keeping their memories alive. Thank you for this video, although I hope my dad never finds it.

@christiancazabonne Жыл бұрын

Sorry for your lost...

@Jeanettesboxingchannel 9 ай бұрын

My condolences to you and your family.

@redblade8160 8 ай бұрын

@@Jeanettesboxingchannel Your "condolences"! You just couldn't wait to use that word. Does it make you feel like a saint now?

@Jeanettesboxingchannel 8 ай бұрын

@@redblade8160 What the hell is wrong with you? Talking to a lady like that makes you feel more manly? Get the hell out of here.

@maltlickytexas 8 ай бұрын

@@redblade8160Are you ok?🤦‍♂️

@garygrant9612 8 ай бұрын

In the mid 50's I was invited to go aboard a connie with tip tanks. A beautiful flight attendant saw me by the fence and invited me aboard. After a tour of the plane and sitting in the cockpit, invited by the Captain, It was at that moment that i decided to be a pilot and flew turbo props, jets and helicopters for 45 years.

@LionZebra 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, sure! Now stop day dreaming and back to your chores please!

@majorp7967 2 ай бұрын

How you know??@LionZebra

@LionZebra 2 ай бұрын

@@majorp7967 Wow! Finally, Mr. aspiring wannabe attorney appeared with his 2cents to play! 😂

@Damone7653 Ай бұрын

My parents flew in the Constellation from NYC to Miami on their honeymoon, they are gone now but the memories go on forever... thanks for all the love and support you both gave me.

@petesmith9472 Ай бұрын

I had a parallel experience. I was in a bar in a rural locality and in walked three trainee pilots each with a gorgeous girl on his arm. I don’t know if I was envious, intrigued, jealous or impressed (a bit of all I suspect) but I spent a fortune on flying for the rest of my life. Today I am broke.

@billy1673 8 ай бұрын

Truly one of the most beautiful planes ever built.

@adotintheshark4848 8 ай бұрын

they were called "The Queen Of The Skies"

@melvyncox3361 2 ай бұрын

As is,of course,the Boeing 747.

@cletusvandamme6262 Ай бұрын

As a child in the early '60s, I can still remember seeing the "Connies" at Barbers Point Naval Air Station in Hawai'i. What a breathtakingly beautiful airplane! They had a tall box at the top of the fuselage, which I imagine was related to the task of hunting Submarines. Probably the forerunner of the P-3 Orion.

@stevemccarty6384 Ай бұрын

@@melvyncox3361 The Boeing 747 is a lot of things, but pretty it is not. Least not for me. My dad flew the 747 and he loved it. He was astounded by its size. He told me that he was 8 stories high when in the flare to land.

@centralplains7608 Ай бұрын

@@cletusvandamme6262 The USAF named them EC-121 "Warning Star" and the USN designated them R7V-1 both for early versions of AWACS and VIP missions. First airplane I rode on en route to military transfer to the Canal Zone in 1950's. Great airplane.✅👍🏽

@rvnmedic1968 7 ай бұрын

After a tour in Vietnam, I wound up joining the NJ Air National Guard at McGuire AFB. This was in 1971. The unit was the 150 Aeromedical Airlift Squadron and I did training flights as a med tech for 2 years on a part time basis. The unit had Connies. Some of the pilots were WW2 pilot vets. The longest flight I had on one was from NJ to the Azores and return. Did quite a few trips stateside. Built up 200+ hours on them. Had a few inflight fires on the wings with an immediate return to base. If you are an avid Connie fan, I suggest you read "Tiger in The Sea, The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 And The Desperate Struggle For Survival" by Eric Lindner. That Connie went down in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland. The pilot was extremely qualified and a lot of the passengers survived the ordeal in the bitter cold ocean thanks to him. Great recreation, MPC flights. (We used MPC in Vietnam for currency- military payment certificates) Cheers, CMSgt Bob Powell, USAF(Ret)

@MPCFlights 7 ай бұрын

Will read. Thanks.

@thehappiestleprechaun8522 3 жыл бұрын

I can't imagine how scary it is staring at your eminent death when your plane is crashing. I've had a dozen or so nightmares of being in a plane crash since I started watching channels like these and it's terrifying every time... The ones I don't immediately wake up when the plane crashes, I oddly come out alive. Rest in peace to the souls on board.

@MPCFlights 3 жыл бұрын

That's quite a vivid nightmare

@zoots15 3 жыл бұрын

You might want to reconsider watching these types of videos

@pradeepbajpai3382 3 жыл бұрын

Oh no 😧 I think no body survived i.am sad whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa help me God I hope everyone survives every plane crash is in your ✋ please don't let any crashes please God 🙏

@pradeepbajpai3382 3 жыл бұрын

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@lewiskemp5893 8 ай бұрын

My mom was a stewardess for Eastern Air Lines and loved the Connie. Me too

@eftate 8 ай бұрын

My mom worked for Eastern, also. My siblings and I got to sit in the tail with the flight attendants one night from DC to LaGuardia.

@RaptorFromWeegee 8 ай бұрын

My father flew a lot on business from the 50s through to the 80s. He said he always felt very secure on the connie, aircraft had a good feel. Said further that the feel of the stratocruiser was much different. Like rattletrap, less solid and secure feeling. Said it felt more to be struggling and lumbering up into the air

@eftate 5 ай бұрын

My mom worked for Eastern and National Airport in D.C. and subbed as a stewardess.

@NetCerpher Ай бұрын

Unless she had a FA certificate in her name or was working in an EAL declared emergency as FA She couldn’t function as crew. I worked with and for FA for years. That is not to say she couldn’t “borrow” a uni and use it for dating purposes. I knew several employees that did that, both male and female. Some were single so no foul. Some were married and just cheating. NOTE I am not referring to anyone specifically! Just what some people did.

@NetCerpher Ай бұрын

@@eftateI was based at DCA for years.

@richarddrum9970 2 ай бұрын

Back in 1968 I missed a Connie shuttle flight from DC to Newark, NJ, but years later I toured the inside of a USAF Connie radar plane at Andrews AFB. Beautiful aircraft.

@indyhotdog7652 Ай бұрын

That plane was the EC-121T Warning Star. The video represents a Lockheed L-049.

@GnomicMaster 8 ай бұрын

My mom (RIP) was lead avionics technician at Lockheed and she wired every cockpit of the Connies. I got to sit in the pilot's seat one day when I was a kid.

@DrMarianus 8 ай бұрын

I grew up in Burbank near the Ventura Frwy by Pass Ave. and I recall seeing Constellations take off from Burbank Airport in the 1960s. Unlike modern jets which begin their turn shortly after takeoff, the Constellations used to fly south until about the Ventura frwy before turning.

@rsrs9551 2 ай бұрын

My dad had the same type job doing wiring for the B-24 and B-58 while working at Consolidated (Texas) and Sperry Rand (Lake Success, NY). He died of PVC poisoning (Stage 4 brain cancer) which I believe came from the coating on the wires, working in a closed area. Safeguards were unknown back then. I would be interested to know if anyone else knows of a similar experience.

@sofiaso9942 Жыл бұрын

This accident killed many families, father mother and 5 children, mother and 4 children, father and mother and 2 children. I actually stopped counting, most were family😭😢🥺

@RindaJane 8 ай бұрын

Heartbreaking 😢

@maryrafuse2297 8 ай бұрын

A most beautiful aircraft in its era and still appreciated today. Looking at the ultra modern shape of the A-220 it is the leading passenger aircraft design in our era.

@jamest2401 8 ай бұрын

The Lockheed Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation was prettier. The L-049’s were more stubby and bulbous looking, next to the more elegant and streamlined Super Constellations.

@mikemumford8419 Ай бұрын

I was a junior in high school and lived about 5 miles northeast of this crash . There was a road right next to the wreckage and I and a couple of friends drove right past it; no roads blocked whatsoever. I remember the biggest piece of the plane that was left was part of the tail section sticking up. The rest of the plane was just pieces scattered around this field. It was a surreal scene I vividly remember 63 years later.

@ellisonlowrimore7751 3 ай бұрын

Still the prettiest plane ever built!!

@adotintheshark4848 8 ай бұрын

Funny thing about these planes. We worked on an EC-121 (the military version of the Super Connie) while I was still in the USAF, and they look kind of gawky when you're close to them. Yet, standing 20 or more feet away they are truly beautiful birds. Also, these planes had compound engines. They used turbo-charging, not to stuff more air into the intake (they also had a supercharger for that) but to return energy back to the crankshaft, thus "compounding".

@rsrs9551 2 ай бұрын

I used to watch the triple tail plane from my front yard being stacked up waiting to land at Idlewild (Kennedy) airport. The sound of those four motors reverberating. Very cool. I agree it is a beautiful airplane. Have built several of them in various scales, mostly 1/144 or 1/72.

@DISGUYROX Ай бұрын

This plane crashed along side Ill Rte 83 in the western suburb of Clarendon Hills. Many people walked around IN the crash site(I was one of them). There was little or no prevention of this at the time. At lest there were no bodies at the time as they were already removed. This was one of the most graceful planes ever built.

@BillSmith-rx9rm Ай бұрын

Fond memories of my youth playing in the park and on the ball fields and hearing these prop engine planes flying overhead on a regular basis. It's a sound you almost never hear today.

@Enid2Sacramento 8 ай бұрын

Saw the one from the Planes of Fame Museum last year. Absolutely gorgeous!

@valdez57700 3 ай бұрын

This was one of the most beautiful planes ever ! Thanks for the video !

@jeremypearson6852 8 ай бұрын

Amazing how one loose bolt can lead to tragedy on a routine flight.

@KingOFuh Ай бұрын

Very good minidoc on this flight. Having no AI narration was nice.

@michaelreilly1310esq Ай бұрын

As a kid I thought these planes were so beautiful they took my breath away

@gurrando3a6 4 ай бұрын

I flew from Frankfurt Rhein Main to McGuire AFB NJ aboard a Connie March 1, 1962.Landed twice in Scotland and Newfoundland for fuel.

@truthray2885 8 ай бұрын

Those were such beautiful airplanes. I remember my grandmother coming to visit on one so many decades ago. The sight of it was a Buck Rogers kind of thrill to me.

@tomfilipiak3511 Ай бұрын

Yeah,but as a ramp worker at Midway Airport in Chicago,from 1970 till 2016, the airplane a super Connie,had 4 engines,and each engine held 60 gallons of oil!Sitting on the wing putting oil in,50 weight oil,in the middle of winter,a gallon at a time,a couple years later we got a oil truck,well we froze our behinds!Small cockpit windows,it had to be difficult to see,took,115 145 octane fuel,highly flammable!Thomas A.Filipiak

@dabneyoffermein595 8 ай бұрын

Connie sits up really high to avoid prop-strike when landing mains compress

@georgehandel5908 29 күн бұрын

Probably not many of us old Connie pilots still around. I have just over 2,000 hours of US Navy Super Connie pilot time. A wonderful old bird!

@Roy-uu4dg 8 ай бұрын

The true epitome of piston driven commercial aviation! Make no mistake 🤠

@faerieSAALE Ай бұрын

The Connie - The B-17 - The B-29 - The C-118 - The C-97 - were some of the USAF's most good-looking aircraft before the Jets and Turboprops took over. It was a sad day when all of them were sold or scrapped.

@cudathehawgjetfixer7520 Ай бұрын

Something about the Lockheed 049 (049, 749, 1049 & 1249) series of aircraft that just looks gorgeous and sexy!!! Those Connie's are the apex of recepticating engined passenger aircraft!!! Fast, futuristic looking, and beautiful!!! Lockheed got it right when they designed them!!!

@riverratranger1427 8 ай бұрын

Amazing to see the Sears Tower built in 73 on a reenactment of 1961

@californiadreaming9216 8 ай бұрын

Hee hee hee yes I noticed that also 😅

@ROGER2095 8 ай бұрын

Plus the lush forest around Midway!

@thedevilinthecircuit1414 7 ай бұрын

Oh! Thanks for ruining the movie! 😜

@khisel1 Ай бұрын

To be fair, they had booked David Copperfield for shooting day but he was too "busy" on his island and missed the shoot.

@garypugh1153 8 ай бұрын

Best looking airliner ever, but I like the Connie with the pointed nose too !😊

@Dilley_G45 8 ай бұрын

The super Connie was a bit slimmer, not as chubby cause it was stretched

@andyengels1343 3 жыл бұрын

According to WGN TV News earlier this evening, CAB wanted the change but the FAA said a change to the flight instructions was adequate...

@lonestarhog7407 Ай бұрын

Seemed eerie watching the Connie on 9/1/61 taking off into a modern-day Chicago skyline. However, good video and new subscriber.

@hardikgarg9555 3 жыл бұрын

Nice and informative video

@colinashby3775 8 ай бұрын

Amazed the plane clocked up 43,000 hours.

@itjustlookslikethis 4 ай бұрын

That's a lot of flying.

@DigbyOdel-et3xx 8 ай бұрын

The Connie may be the most beautiful airliner ever propeller or jet engined. The challengers would be the 707 or 747. IMO.

@briannickerson6858 27 күн бұрын

My US Navy squadron flew Connies configured as EC121 with radomes on top and bottom. We lost two during 1968-70 with 54 lives lost. One getting shot down and one crash landing at Danang Airbase Vietnam.

@jeromebreeding3302 Ай бұрын

When I was about ten years old, there were a dozen of derelict Constellations in a field of the Greater Wilmington DE. airport in New Castle. They were stripped of instruments and flight controls. The Boeing 707 jets were replacing these venerable piston powered airliners.

@jsl151850b 8 ай бұрын

*Nice Graphics!*

@cdc3 8 ай бұрын

First airplane I ever flew in. Still remember the night flight to England back in 1955 or so. It was a looong way up to the rear entry, hot and dark inside, noisy and I distinctly remember my parents had NOT BROUGHT MY BLANKY with us! Obviously I have never forgiven them...

@johnberard9820 Ай бұрын

I flew from England Air Force Base at Alexandria, Louisiana to Augusta ,Georgia (Fort Gordon Signal School ) on a big plane like that....on Saturday November 23 1963 the day after the Kennedy assassination. It was a quiet flight on a beautiful plane......we landed in a cold Georgia rain.......

@Greg-w6t 8 ай бұрын

The Super Connie is the most beautiful passenger plane

@zztops4504 8 ай бұрын

Also, DC8, DC9 and DC10 were cute! Wing on DC8 was awesome.

@tommarck4296 8 ай бұрын

First flight. Midway to Miami 9;yrs myself. Eastern Airlines.

@BigEightiesNewWave 8 ай бұрын

I flew from Georgia to Calif. on one I believe in 1961, I was 3 or 4 at the time, fell asleep, remember and airline worker with a hat carrying me, mom had her hands full.

@sludge8506 8 ай бұрын

There is a memorial in Willowbrook, Illinois.

@sherylsocia4496 8 ай бұрын

What's so scary is that one bolt, wire, etc. can cause fatalities. I panic every time I have to fly

@itjustlookslikethis 4 ай бұрын

Well, Lockheed also built the L-188, they had a problem with the wings coming off.

@tomchristensen3392 8 ай бұрын

Gorgeous aircraft

@WMAcadet Ай бұрын

A pretty airplane, yes, but not the most beautiful in my humble opinion. I think the most beautiful airplane Lockheed ever built was their first all metal airplane, the Model 10 Electra. Design wise, I would choose the Douglas DC-6 and DC-7 series as more practical than the Constellation series for passengers or freight. I flew a few fam flights on a 1049H Super Connie, very tight, uncomfortable cockpit, and I flew the DC-6 for more than 3200 hours over a six year period as an F/O. I was in my 20's then, and life was an adventure!

@jaimevargas239 Ай бұрын

Who's talking about practicality here?

@jaimevargas239 Ай бұрын

The Electra was indeed a beautiful plane but the large wide open cowlings were much too large for the plane"s size and wing span and somewhat detrating from its appearance..

@redblade8160 8 ай бұрын

The Constellation was not in service up until the 1990's. "The last scheduled passenger flight of a Constellation in the contiguous United States was made by a TWA L749 on May 11, 1967, from Philadelphia to Kansas City, Missouri; the last scheduled passenger flight in North America was by Western Airlines' N86525 in Alaska, Anchorage to Yakutat to Juneau on 26 November 1968".

@Dilley_G45 8 ай бұрын

Freight services were run longer

@davef.2329 8 ай бұрын

We had a handful of them flying cargo in and out of MIA here into the early-mid 90's. They were all foreign registered though, mostly from the Dominican Republic. One of them still sat derelict off in the weeds in Sto. Dgo. 12 years ago when I retired from flying.

@redblade8160 8 ай бұрын

@@davef.2329 The point is, the Constellation was no longer in service as a commercial plane; it was only used for haulage by poor countries.

@MattsScaleModels 8 ай бұрын

Late 90s is correct. If it’s earning dollars by moving freight, it’s commercial.

@redblade8160 8 ай бұрын

@@MattsScaleModels Technically, you're correct. A commercial plane is a plane that carries passengers or goods. But I was referring to a plane that no longer carries ordinary passengers to their destination.

@davidpeters6536 8 ай бұрын

It was a beautiful prop driven airliner. I had a model one when I was about 12 when they were being replaced by jets. For me the Comet 2 and the Concorde were better looking in the 20th Century.

@billylain7456 2 ай бұрын

I was lucky to have flown on a Connie in the 1960's from Goose Bay to McGuire AFB.

@raywhitehead730 8 ай бұрын

These were great planes. Many variations for the military were made. Great airliner.

@Rudy32225 Ай бұрын

Fuselage shaped like an airfoil, they knew something back then.

@camilo66995 Ай бұрын

On service until late 90 ?

@jkryanspark 3 ай бұрын

In the early years of my life, living just miles from LaGuardia Airport, I remember the sky being full of a wide assortment of planes. It was the early 1960s and jets had replaced prop planes, but the latter could still be seen frequently above my neighborhood. I'm sure there were Constellations in those skies and they flew lower than the newer faster jets.

@Greatdome99 Ай бұрын

BTW-elevators are the horizontal control surfaces on the tail. Props were so large the landing gear had to be raised, which made the tail too high for hangers. So the plane got the triple-rudder arrangement instead.

@elsiegermanos6473 2 жыл бұрын

I need a documemtary of twa flight 903, none is available on youtube!

@dennisjones1231 Ай бұрын

Have 3700 Logged Hours In The Navy WC-121N Flying Hurricanes From 1965--70.

@theworldwariioldtimeradioc8676 2 жыл бұрын

It’s odd seeing all the buildings that weren’t built in 1961 as the plane takes off. I do understand that there’s not much you can do in that regard on a simulator. It is a beautiful aircraft.

@christiancazabonne Жыл бұрын

Those simulators have the cities in the actuality...

@JamesSeaberry 8 ай бұрын

Yes, and I was remembering that there were in fact cornfields 8 miles out from Midway in 1961; not now! Places like Hinsdale and Aurora were "towns", not "suburbs"......

@sludge8506 8 ай бұрын

@@JamesSeaberry You beat me to it!! No cornfields anymore. 🤪

@JamesSeaberry 8 ай бұрын

@@sludge8506 Hahaha!!!! We can share the honor Sir!!!! Co-observers!!

@CaptainAlFrancis 7 ай бұрын

I started with TWA on the Constellation in July of 1964. I have no recollection of it having a voice recorder. So how did the conversation shown happen?

@stevemccarty6384 Ай бұрын

My dad flew the Connie with Pan American. The airplane didn't fare well when compared with the DC 6 and 7 however. I well remember seeing TWA flying beautiful Connies. What a pretty airplane.

@dntlss 8 ай бұрын

Might be the most beautiful but for some reason this plane has always given me the creeps,looks like a Aardvark,that triple tail is spooky and that front wheel looks like it could snap at any minute when landing,its a cool plane though,definitely has its place in aviation history.

@jimthompson5612 2 ай бұрын

That is one of the things I like about the Connie - that long, spindly nose landing gear.

@AndrewGrey22 8 ай бұрын

One of those things where the pilots were not familiar with a small detail like releasing stick pressure to enable the manual system. Details matter. You gotta pay attention and learn everything about the machine you are operating. Especially when transporting people.

@thedevilinthecircuit1414 7 ай бұрын

It was an unknown fault due to a mechanical failure--not a training deficiency. Investigators discovered *after* the crash that releasing pressure on the yoke could have saved them.

@mikrif2767 2 ай бұрын

Hard to believe this was 63 years ago. RIP.

@petergibson2318 8 ай бұрын

"This can't be". One day all of us will say that when facing our certain death.

@californiadreaming9216 8 ай бұрын

petergibson all those, including myself, who accept Jesus Christ as their God and Savior understand that, through Him, they have conquered death. Their bodies may expire but shall be raised again just as Jesus' body was raised again. Abar shalom. 😊

@StarlightUltimazyX 3 жыл бұрын

Good video !

@bluetickfreddy101 8 ай бұрын

My father flew the connie for flying tigers in 60’s😊

@thomaswille7681 Ай бұрын

I love the Connie as well, but IMO the Concorde would give it a run for the money as the most beautiful plane of the 20th century.

@semsemeini7905 Ай бұрын

You should do the TWA crash of a Connie taking off from Cairo in 1950. A famous Egyptian actress was on board going to Rome.

@daveth121864 8 ай бұрын

Remained in service until the late 90s?? Maybe as a cargo plane in The Congo. There were no Connies flying passengers anywhere in North America in the late 90s. Maybe late 60s.

@chrismasina1514 2 жыл бұрын

Funny how the month of September in history is synonymous with aviation accidents, the most famous one being 911 of-course with 4 aircraft in one day, but if you read accident reports from this century, I's say its pretty spooky

@BobbyTucker 8 ай бұрын

I was reading a documentary on aircraft "accidents" and "crashes", there is a difference, for instance, when the aircraft flew into the twin towers that was considered a "crash", it was deliberate, in cases where a nut and/or a bolt is overlooked and not tightened, for instance, causing the aircraft to fail to stay aloft, that's considered an "accident". As I stated at the beginning of my comment, I read that in an aircraft documentary a few years ago. I just wanted to share that with everyone and I hope it helps to better understand.

@pascalcoole2725 8 ай бұрын

Technical detail: I think though the aircraft did fully stall, technicaly it was not a deep stall, as a deep stall is the case with a T-tail where the wings prevent the flow over the T-Tail-Elevator preventing recovery. The case here i think is called a 'full stall' (which you don't want eigther but from where under normal conditions a recovery is posible)

@sludge8506 8 ай бұрын

Wouldn’t cutting the power helped the pilots regain control?

@mohammedshanooj 3 жыл бұрын

Game name???

@paranormalsecurity2568 3 жыл бұрын

This recreation is done before Mauricio ...??

@davidberelson2925 Ай бұрын

Beautiful they were, and I used to fly into KC on them…but as to beauty, no planes have ever made my pulse race like the magnificent Boeing 314 Clipper flying boats which, incidentally, truly shrunk the world with their continent to continent range.

@overcastfriday81 2 ай бұрын

Not sure which plane is the most beautiful. For props, I'd definitely consider the de Havilland DH.88 Comet. For jets, I like the plane that was never built -- the Convair Kingfish. The Mig 29 is pretty handsome too.

@californiadreaming9216 8 ай бұрын

It is an unfortunate reality that safety - in ALL industries - is written into practice with the blood of victims of oversight. RIP to all the victims of Flight 529. 😢

@EuroScot2023 3 ай бұрын

I'd agree that it was a good looking plane. Super constellation has finer proportions in my view. But nothing beats Concorde!

@davidvaughn7752 Ай бұрын

They might have been able to control pitch with the throttle. We learned to do simulated elevator loss by flying the plane with only throttle and rudder (and yoke roll control) during my light training.

@HaimBenAvrahm 8 ай бұрын

Sometimes we learn from our mistakes and the tragedies of others.

@Wurlyscope 2 ай бұрын

It is the most beautiful American piston airplane of the 20th century for sure but for me the most beautiful airplane of the 20th century is the Concorde.

@None-zc5vg Ай бұрын

A single failed flap bolt caused the fatal crash of a turboprop at an airport near me in 1957. The plane was just a few seconds away from the runway

@jourwalis-8875 4 ай бұрын

Fantastic to see the red hot exhaust pipes in the evening!

@arutabaga8264 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting. I had no idea the Constellation remained in service until the 1990s--where? I've never seen one. Beautiful plane.

@MPCFlights 3 жыл бұрын

Dominican operators Aerochaga and AMSA used them as freighters until 1993

@raven_1133 2 жыл бұрын

@@MPCFlights Who knows, Buffalo might grab one at some point 😂

@MPCFlights 2 жыл бұрын

@@raven_1133 😂

@spladam3845 2 жыл бұрын

Well done.

@GnomicMaster 2 ай бұрын

Besides my mom wiring the cockpits of the Connie and F-104 and P2V-1 Neptune and the SR-71 Blackbird, she also wired the L-1011. I didn't know about her work with the SR-71 because it was top secret until it was finally released. This is off-topic of Lockheed and my mom, but it's still an airplane story. I was treated to getting a tour of the very first 747 that was Boeing's test flight craft. In fact I was the very first non-Boeing person to get inside of the 747. That was in 1969 at LAX. It had been flown from Seattle to LAX for its first shakedown flight.

@XRM123-f5k 3 күн бұрын

BAD START.!!!! THAT INSIDE THE COCKPIT PHOTO, IT’S = NOT = OF A CONNIE.!!!

@indyhotdog7652 Ай бұрын

The plane was incorrectly labelled "Star of Switzerland", when in fact it was the Star of Paris. Also, the rendering software apparently doesn't have imagery consistent with the 1961 Chicago skyline (without the Sears Tower)?