Constellation Videos

[Lockheed]

Here's a couple of great videos of a great airplane. Arthur was a rated Captain with Eastern too. Even a shot of my former boss...Captain Eddie.

I suggest watching #1 first and then #2 all the way through. I think you'll enjoy these videos of the finest piston-engined airplane that I once had the pleasure of flying.


www.youtube.com/watch?gl=DE&hl=de&v=3rgzAnrI6Bw&feature=related

www.youtube.com/watch?gl=DE&hl=de&v=SCL7FglFapY&feature=related

[Maarten]

Hi Lockheed,

Thank you very much for these links. Great videos!

Actually, the Super Connie featured on the ground in video 1 is a 1049 sans suffixe. Watch the jetstacks instead of the big exhausts of the turbocompound versions.

Cheers,
Maarten

[Tom/CalClassic]

These are part of an Eastern publicity film called "Flying With Godfrey". It is really great, especially some of Arthur's cracks about smoking, etc. It's one of the best propliner videos ever.

[coenraad]

Very nice video's. Those will go to my favourites!
Thanks allot.

[raymengel]

Thanks for the link to the great videos.

Has anyone tried Captain Godfrey's real life flight demonstration of flying on just one engine, with Manfred's Super Connie?? That aircraft must have been pretty light on fuel and empty of passengers??

Again thanks for the links.

Ray Mengel
Spokane Valley, WA

[coenraad]

I think it was a bluff Ray, as i noticed the plane is really sitting on it's tail and looks like she loses speed, and goes towards stalling, but then they start the engines again. So it was just some comercial stunt in my oppinion.

[Lockheed]

Hey.....wadda ya mean a bluff ?!?! Lookie here !!



And you'll notice in the video that Arthur started with the Number 1 Engine. Had he started with #4 and turned to the Flight Engineer and said: "Feather Four", it might've gotten real quiet up there !! ;D ;D

I think it was all for real. It wasn't a passenger flight. We were told about it in ground school. We were also told that Captain Eddie slow rolled the first Connie delivered to Eastern.

[coenraad]

Yeah, if she is absolutely light it might be possible yeah, but no way that she will fly on just one engine when having a full passenger load with their bagage.