Connie and the Baron
Both Connie and the Baron were resurrected from the grave, and now can be enjoyed by many.
This plane was in the graveyard in Arizona. Several interested people in Kansas City started the organization "Save A Connie".
They went to Arizona and got the plane in flying condition to ferry it to Kansas City. Several years were spent restoring it, and now it is one of 6 Super Constellations that are flying.
It is the ONLY one fitted in passenger configuration. It has been to Paris, London and other Euopean cities for air shows.
1958 Comfort...Gold seats are original First Class
The red seats in the center of the cabin are from an L-1011. Behind the red seats are the sleeping berths.
Comfortable beds for long flights
Berths were only on aircraft scheduled for transcontinental and transoceanic flights.
Taxi for takoff
A very sleek aircraft.
Liftoff for the sight-seeing flight
Me in the Right seat.
This was such a spur-of-the-moment event that I hardly had time to dream about it.
Power to spare
Pilot's workstation
Most of the instrumentation was original, but a few modern items were added, like GPS, the green display in the top center.
Analog display of spark plug performance
The Flight Engineer can dial in any one of the 144 spark plugs to see how it is performing.
The identifiable Triple-Tail
Here is a picture of the Connie next to a 747 to show you
how large the Connie really is.
