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Connie Cocktail Lounge at The TWA Hotel

July 16, 2024 Stephen Chapis 0

In the middle of the 21st century hustle and bustle of John F. Kennedy Airport, the TWA Hotel is a rip in the space-time continuum that will transport you back to 1962 and the heyday of airline travel. One of the highlights of the hotel is the Lockheed Constellation Cocktail Lounge. […]

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Columbine II Restoration – Fall 22/23 Update

January 9, 2023 Moreno Aguiari 1

It has been some time since our last status update on former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Lockheed VC-121 Constellation, Columbine II. The ex-US Air Force executive transport has been undergoing restoration at Dynamic Aviation following its arrival […]

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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of The Lockheed Constellation

January 9, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On January 9, 1943, at the controls of the United States Army Air Forces, Boeing’s Chief Test Pilot, Eddie Allen, made the first flight of the […]

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Lufthansa Lockheed Starliner Moves to Paderborn Airport in Germany

March 3, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

After our most recent report from Constellation connoisseur Ralph Pettersen concerning the status of President Eisenhower’s executive VC-121 Constellation transport, Columbine II, presently under rebuild with Dynamic Aviation in Bridgewater, Virginia, a number of questions […]

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Columbine II Restoration – February 2021 Update

February 22, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 1

Following the profound shock and sadness we all felt in learning of Karl Stoltzfus untimely passing last November, there was an understandable concern over what his death might mean to the continuation of various historical […]

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Columbine II – Restoration Progress Report – August, 2020

September 11, 2020 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

It has been a couple of months since our last update on Columbine II, the Lockheed VC-121A Constellation which President Dwight D. Eisenhower used during the early years of his first term of office. This […]

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Columbine II – Restoration Update June 2020

June 29, 2020 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 1

By Richard Mallory Allnutt (editor) Echoing loudly across the expansive, high-bay hangar, one can hear the staccato clatter of rivet guns and high-pitched squeal of air-powered drills tearing into sheet aluminum. There is a whole […]

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Super Constellation Under Cover at Qantas Founders Museum

March 20, 2020 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

We have been following the Qantas Founders Museum and their efforts to recover, restore and preserve a Lockheed Super Constellation for the past six years, and are happy to announce that the fully restored aircraft is […]

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Qantas Founders Museum’s Super Constellation Unveiled

December 20, 2019 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

For the past five years, we have been following the saga of the Qantas Founders Museum in Australia and their efforts to recover and restore a Lockheed Constellation in the livery of an original Qantas […]

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Super Constellation Project One Step Closer to Australia

December 16, 2016 Moreno Aguiari 0

Qantas Founders Museum (QFM) has made some significant progress with their Lockheed C-121J Super Constellation Bu.131643. As many of our readers will be well aware, this aircraft has sat outside at Manila International Airport in the […]

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