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Post by jesse on Mar 23, 2012 19:01:47 GMT -5
One such airplane was the Lockheed Constitution. A postwar Giant. There is a typo in the aircraft specs. The engines used were the Pratt and Whitney R-4360. The R-4630 was non-existent. R-4360 was the largest radial engine ever produced. Enjoy the flight ... Jesse The 12 engine Dornier's Do X held the passenger record from 1929 until the Constitution. (Check: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornier_Do_X ) The video shows one of the Constitutions at Las Vegas before scrapping. The other one ended up in Miami. The fusalege was on the north side of 36th Street for many years in the early sixties. The plan was to make it a restaurant, but it never happened and the fusalege was scrapped. www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=-Ss9ZyidjlI
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Post by ashaman on Mar 25, 2012 20:45:19 GMT -5
Yeah, the Constitution was something, huh? Shame there has never been a FS version. I would have liked to have one.
And one of the XC-99 too. Two giants forgotten, even by the virtual community.
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