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Lockheed L-749 Constellation

This month we feature Lockheed L-749 Constellation by Diego S. Barreto, Manfred Jahn, Hansjoerg Naegele, Luis Pallas, Bill Tyne, Roland Berger, Volker Boehme, Stefan Werner, Jaap der Baare and Hans Herrmann. This package includes 7 models and 5 paint schemes and complete documentation.

The Lockheed Constellation ("Connie") was a propeller-driven airliner powered by four 18-cylinder radial Wright R-3350 engines. It was built by Lockheed between 1943 and 1958 at its Burbank, California, USA, facility. A total of 856 aircraft were produced in four models, all distinguished by a triple-tail design and dolphin-shaped fuselage. The Constellation was used as a civilian airliner and as a U.S. military air transport plane, seeing service in the Berlin Airlift. It was the presidential aircraft for U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The advent of jet airliners, with the de Havilland Comet, Boeing 707, Douglas DC-8 and Convair 880, rendered the piston-engined Constellation obsolete. The first routes lost to jets were the long overseas routes, but Constellations continued to fly domestic routes. The last scheduled passenger flight of a four-engined piston-engined airliner in the United States was made by a TWA L749 on May 11, 1967 from Philadelphia to Kansas City, MO.[11] However, Constellations remained in freight service for years to come, and were the mainstay of Eastern Airlines' shuttle service between New York, Washington, and Boston until 1968.  (Source: Wikipedia.)

Lockheed L-749 Constellation

360 degree 3D virtual cockpit

TWA Constellation flies into the sunset

Eastern Airlines variant on the tarmac