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10-03-2007, 10:24 AM
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Country:  | Connies are the most beautiful airliners ever built. They have sensual curves, they are so classic and elegants and perform so good... they are like flying pianos. | |
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10-03-2007, 03:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Jgonzalez  Connies are the most beautiful airliners ever built. | I'll accept that..... Quote:
Originally Posted by jgonzalez They have sensual curves, they are so classic and elegant and perform so good... they are like flying pianos | Now that is going to require some thought !!! (My piano is an upright)
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10-05-2007, 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by ccheese I'll accept that.....
Now that is going to require some thought !!! (My piano is an upright)
Charles | I was thinking of the elegance and the curves that make so beautiful a grand piano... he he he
My grandmother was killed in one of those beauties, when it came down near Mexico City, in the late 50's.
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10-06-2007, 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Jgonzalez Connies are the most beautiful airliners ever built. They have sensual curves | Not this one!  | |
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10-06-2007, 09:42 PM
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10-06-2007, 10:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Matt308 What the heck? An astronomy experiment? | Yeah, I think so.
Early 1964.
Called the 'LAS TRAP III' Super Constellation Conversion. LAS (Lockheed Aircraft Service Company) converted a Constellation (SN.66956) to carry the TRAP III airborne radiation measurement system developed by Bendix.
The object of the exercise was to.."scan the skies from a single observation point and obtain visual and precise optical tracking, recording and timing data associated with the re-entry of high speed bodies into the earth's atmosphere."
The gun-turret-type domes contained the "optical radiation measurement instrumentation."
But I'm not exactly sure what 'high speed bodies' refers to. | |
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10-06-2007, 11:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Matt308 You don't like the Connie?? | Did we understand him right? I'm not enthused about airliners either and I worked on them for 13 years but the Connie and the Super Connie are the most beautiful airliners ever built. I was fortunate enough to be stationed at the Naval Air Test Center at Pax River back in the early '70's and NRL was stationed in the hangar next to us. They had two or three Super Connies. Listening to them crank up and taxi out and take off was some of the sweetest music I've ever heard.
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10-07-2007, 03:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Graeme Not this one! | Do I hear the phrase " EXTERIMINATE, EXTERMINATE" ? 
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