FighterControl

Posted: **Mon Jan 15, 2024 12:24 am**

Continuing my scanned prints – Graphic heavy!
The fine vertical scratches on some were from using an HP6520 to feed and scan a pile of prints automatically. They were fed over a strip of glass around 5mm wide. However, a piece of paper dust on the glass from the prints caused the multiple fine scratches seen on some of the scans. Scan it again, you got different scratches, as seen here (It's what I sent to HP)

Scratches by eLaReF, on Flickr

As the images say on Flickr, I returned 3 printers before giving up!

On with the topic......

48-0612 Lockheed C-121 Constellation msn 2604 by eLaReF, on Flickr

52-3414 Lockheed EC-121T Super Constellation msn 4332 by eLaReF, on Flickr

53-0535 Lockheed EC-121H Super Constellation msn 4350 by eLaReF, on Flickr

53-0547 Lockheed EC-121D Super Constellation msn 4362 by eLaReF, on Flickr

53-3399 Lockheed EC-121D Super Constellation msn 4373 by eLaReF, on Flickr

54-0160 Lockheed NC-121C Super Constellation msn 4179 by eLaReF, on Flickr

54-0161 Lockheed C-121 Super Constellation msn 4180 by eLaReF, on Flickr

54-0168 Lockheed C-121C Super Constellation msn 4187 by eLaReF, on Flickr

54-0169 Lockheed C-121C Super Constellation msn 4188 by eLaReF, on Flickr

54-2306 Lockheed EC-121T Super Constellation msn 4388 by eLaReF, on Flickr

54-4050 Lockheed TC-121G Super Constellation msn 4103 by eLaReF, on Flickr

54-4059 Lockheed C-121G Super Constellation msn 4130 by eLaReF, on Flickr

54-4067 Lockheed C-121G Super Constellation msn 4147 by eLaReF, on Flickr

54-4072 Lockheed C-121G Super Constellation msn 4134 by eLaReF, on Flickr

55-0120 Lockheed EC-121Q Super Constellation msn 4393 by eLaReF, on Flickr

55-0121 Lockheed EC-121T Super Constellation msn 4394 by eLaReF, on Flickr

55-0126 Lockheed EC-121T Super Constellation msn 4399 by eLaReF, on Flickr

55-0133 Lockheed EC-121T Super Constellation msn 4406 by eLaReF, on Flickr

67-214-- Lockheed C-121R Super Constellation msn by eLaReF, on Flickr

67-12475 Lockheed C-121R Super Constellation msn 4436 by eLaReF, on Flickr

131388 Lockheed NC-121K Super Constellation msn 4308 by eLaReF, on Flickr

131623 Lockheed C-121G Super Constellation msn 4124 by eLaReF, on Flickr

131635 Lockheed C-121J Super Constellation msn 4136 by eLaReF, on Flickr

141317 Lockheed EC-121P Super Constellation msn 4441 by eLaReF, on Flickr

141292 Lockheed NC-121K Super Constellation msn 4416 GD/11 VAQ-33 FEWSG by eLaReF, on Flickr

Posted: **Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:37 am**

Imho, the Connie is still a beautiful aircraft, even after all these years

Great to see those

Thanks for posting

Paddyboy

Posted: **Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:41 am**

Wow, what a selection and even camo Connie's! Thanks for sharing.
Paul

Posted: **Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:47 am**

Thanks for sharing these, always great to see Connie's.

Posted: **Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:10 pm**

wow, thanks for sharing. i absolutely love the Connie, one of the most beautiful planes built. I'm currently modelling one in Blender

Posted: **Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:45 pm**

Great selection - a very sad time when these beauties were gradually retired. No mistaking where #1 of 48-0612 was taken - RAF Northolt.

Posted: **Mon Jan 15, 2024 9:46 pm**

ridgmeister wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:41 am
Wow, what a selection and even camo Connie's! Thanks for sharing.
Paul

A
There were 29 EC-121R converted from various Navy types. By the time of my visit to MASDC in '74, 3 had been written off. The other 26 were in MASDC but despite a bus trip that allowed us to get off and run around, we never got too near them. Most of the Constellations we saw were in this condition

53-0553 Lockheed EC-121H Super Constellation msn 4368 551AEW&CW & 53-3402 (No Mks) by eLaReF, on Flickr

It was mostly NAVY ones that were still whole

145939 Lockheed EC-121K Super Constellation msn 5520 GD10 VAQ33 by eLaReF, on Flickr

Posted: **Mon Jan 15, 2024 9:51 pm**

wolfie138 wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:10 pm
wow, thanks for sharing. i absolutely love the Connie, one of the most beautiful planes built. I'm currently modelling one in Blender

I'll have to have a look at 'Blender' !!

Posted: **Tue Jan 16, 2024 9:29 am**

SPLENDIFEROUS!
A superb post of a truly great frame.
I remember how they would glide almost silently along the 'Red One' airway in the 60's and 70's
I love the old pistons so thanks for making an old enthusiast tremendously happy

Posted: **Wed Jan 17, 2024 2:23 pm**

A bit of contrast... cocooned Connies at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2024 5:27 pm**

eLaReF wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 15, 2024 9:51 pm

wolfie138 wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:10 pm
wow, thanks for sharing. i absolutely love the Connie, one of the most beautiful planes built. I'm currently modelling one in Blender
I'll have to have a look at 'Blender' !!

there's a great Connie-dedicated issue of CLassic Airliner magazine, i used it for reference. well worth a buy if you like the plane.

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2024 7:55 pm**

Archer wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 17, 2024 2:23 pm
A bit of contrast... cocooned Connies at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

When were these taken?

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2024 3:55 pm**

A friend of mine took them when he visited Amsterdam on his honeymoon, that was in 1963 I think.
Edit: Yes, pretty sure it was 1963. I found out that KLM operated their Connies until 1962, but at that point in time the only things about them that were worth anything were engines and instruments, so they stood like this for a while and a lot of them ended up scrapped.