A memory of a 5 year old I flew from Hawaii to SF Bay Area in 1957. Will never forget the sights and sounds of such a magnificent aircraft.

"Breitling" worth every SFR you have spent on this Constellation Thank you so very much

Now that is an Aeroplane with History.

My dad was stationed in Germany from 1952 to 1955, and so were we. We flew on one of these beautiful things back to the States, to New York. I remember, even as a 6-year-old, how beautiful this aircraft was,and how privileged I was to be flying on it. A truly gorgeous airplane.

Those big engines speak to your soul. As a small child, my family went to Florida on the Connie, I was, but 3 years old, but still remember it.

yay finally some good vintage aircraft noise that I can use as a background sound.

KLM Lockheed Constellation, from Hamburg to New York, December 1950. The sound changed when one of the engines quit, over the ocean. I was 8 years old, watching 3 blurs and one motionless propellor. We returned to Amsterdam and spent a day. Then on to Shannon, Gander and New York.

Oh, wow... fabulous video; no music, slow shutter speed so the props spin normally, etc. Reminds me of my flight from Germany to NY in 1959 on a DC6. Forgot how relatively small they are inside. Noisy flight. I miss 'em. Thanks Sooo much!! ❤

Man I love seeing the flames shooting out of the exhaust

I flew on ec-121k while in the Navy at Pax. River, md. Its been over 50 years ago, and the engin sounds still stir many fine memories.

I flew on a TWA Constellation from New York to Paris and back. Sat in the cockpit and got to hold the controls. I love this plane and it is so beautiful.

Sexiest airplane ever designed. An old joke about the Connies..........."The best 3 engine aircraft ever made". Spent many hours in the cockpit when I was a kid with my Dad, a captain for TWA, back in the '50s. Fond memories :-)

My dad flew these for several years and I was able to go with him a few times. Sat in the cockpit. I miss them both.😢

This airplane is built like a dolphin and handles like a dragon and the sounds of piston vibrates deeply like an old fashioned drone. All glory to the drone sounding Super Constellation :D.

These Super Connies look like poetry whether flying or parked on the ground. Props

As with the Electra, and the L1011, Lockheed aircraft captured the hearts, and were favorites among pilots, worldwide!

i was on one of these from Japan all the way to Massachusetts TWA constillation, the noisiest 25 hours of flying. my ears were ringing all the time.

This brings back a flood of memories. A reminder of how much motion there was when flying on the old wind-mills. In rough air it was really tough and a lot of people used to get very sick. Over-wing was the most sought-after area because the center of motion tended to pivot around that area. The tail of the Connie had the worst tendency for motion and would fish-tail through turbulence. This flight was pretty low and I do not hear the High-Blowers, probably for lack of high octane av-gas. In the summer, it accounts for more motion down low. However, the view is spectacular and aviation geeks LOVE it!

I love the sight and sound of a by-gone era! 75years ago to was cutting edge technology! It was planes like these that marked the beginning of the end of the Great Ocean Liner ships!

What a gorgeous plane!

Thanks for everyone who preserve this elegant machine, great job!

No airliner is drawn more beautifully. In Lockheeds tradition i guess it was also cutting edge technology. I would love to fly with it.

Overwhelmingly cool

That is a bare-bones Super Connie! Normally they had much more luxurious cabin interiors than this. I flew on these aircraft back in the 1960s. Also flew on DC-7, DC- 6, aircraft.

Great video, love these old piston aircraft, sounds so musical

Incríble is Belle aeronave. Fantástic.

That thing is awesome... The engines are about to fall off but it's still in one piece.. That plane is gotta be as tough as nails!

When the passengers enter the plane they all should get a modern ear plug/noise blocker for free with a Super Constellation branding on it , as a needed noise reducer and as a thank you souvenir ! That would be a great gesture and welcome ...^^

Loved the video, mostly the sound of those 3350’s and props. Did not like the never ending yacking of the other people.

THIS is what we want

She’s beautiful. That takeoff would’ve been amazing to see at nighttime from inside the cabin but during the daytime it’s still extremely cool

That is crazy, it's like going back in time!

RADIAL PISTONS ENGINES CONSTELATION 👍👍 🇧🇷

Flew from Dallas to DC in '56 as a ten year old, with my mom and rest of the kids. It was wonderful and I remember it well. At night in Texas I would hear the Connies fly over with that wonderful sound of the engines, on their way to Dallas.

....I know..i know that Kelly Johnson was one of the guy's designing this marvelous plane but I want to say thanks also to Howard Hughes for seeing the potential of this design and giving the final boost to Lockheed to go ahead with the development....Thank you very much Kelly Johnson, Hall Hibbard , Howard Hughes and countless others... for giving us this marvelous plane....Forever blue skies ...wherever you are .

Will forever remind me of "TWA" and "Howard Hughes" ....

WOW, VERY IMPRESSED.

Great video. It remains me when my father makes the belly landing in one of the 🔴Avianca. Constellation.

Das ist eines der tollsten Videos, die ich bis jetzt zum Thema DC 6 gesehen habe! Absolut der Hammer! Vielen Dank! 👍👍👍👍👍😎🇦🇹

What a NICE airplane.I love the Lockheed Conny.This is the way an airliner should be.

I had a chance in the mid-90s to ride on a pristine MATS Super Connie from Hillsboro, Oregon to the LA area. One of the greatest days of my life!

Flew across the pacific from the US to Hickman air base on the big island of Hawaii and on to Japan ,from Japan to Tan Son Nuit air field in Viet nam. It was thirty hours of flight time broken up into three legs. We flew in a C- 97 four engine Air Force cargo plane. Four Massive Pratt & Whitney thirty five hundred horse power radials made you think you could conquer the world. It was equipped with GE electric adjustable twelve foot four bladed props which had a habit of turning out of synch with each other. The constant thrumming of the blades as they synchronised and then slowly slipped out of synch could put you to sleep.

Well well ------- I flew a small plane with a friend to Camarillo Airport on April 26, 2004. When we were on short final we noticed a Connie at the departure end of the runway running up her engines. Amazed to see an operational Connie. I see in the closing credits here that it was THIS beautiful bird!

Superb work of art , to me although i love military jets etc, to me this is a proper aircraft , USA you done good , UK fan ,

Epic.

*"WOW THIS PLAAAANE IS SOO QUIIIIET.. I SAID, IT IS SOOOO SIIIIILENT!!"*

these sounds.... crossing the atlantic... memories

Curtiss Wright! Proud to say, made in USA😍

Wonderful. Thank you for posting this.

wow super cool thanks

What a magnificent plane, it was a great luxury to fly with this plane...It lacks a bit of comfort but in those years, it was a great luxury. And what about the sound of the engines? It was very aggressive but once again, in those times, the sound of the engines was perfect. I flew with a DC-3, it's much smaller but also very special! In short, I love the constellation! 😮✈

cool sound.

Enjoyed the entire video. As a young lad of 6 or 7 years old, I flew as a passenger onboard a Connie. It was my first flight in an airplane. I got a tour of the cockpit and was given a set of wings! I don't remember much of anything else of that day. I think it may have been a flight from PHL to MIA. Later in life I became an F-15E Instructor pilot. Think that first ride may have influenced me? It was also nice to see a couple of F-15Es at the very end even though the first one shown was mislabeled as a super hornet.

Fabulous

I sure missed working on this plane in the 90s at Camarillo CA.

The pool noodle on the entry door reminded me of an experience I once had. On the Boeing 727 the #1 right hand entry is what is called a "service" door and it's a few inches shorter than the main entry door. If you don't know or remember that there's a good chance you'll get a good whack on the noggin' Ask me how I know 😩

when the engines sparked into life, I was expecting more noise. but wow, what a dramatic start on the outer engine with those flames, however to the uninitiated, i believe that exhaust flames and smoke to be perfectly normal for the Connie

FANTASTIC !!! 😌🍺🍺🍺👍

Beautiful and classic.

What a beauty ! Thanks for sharing and greetings from New Zealand.

I remember flying a DC-6 at night. Sitting just behind the engines you could see the exhausts glow cherry red during the run up just before the closing of the cowl flaps. Cool!

Beautiful video! I remember flying on Constellations....

super video, with props really turning, and the sound well controlled.

i remember the first time I was on an Eastern Airlines flight was in 1958, when Eastern had the Great Silver Fleet. I remember on takeoff when the turbo's kicked in, and I also remember feeling a little strange because I was a kid, and the interior looked different from the Northwest Orient Stratocruisers that I had flown in. Still, to me it was really amazing to be on-board.

Thank God for KZfaq....I guess that's the closest I'll ever get to flying in one of these beauties!

Merveilleux, Wunderbar, Wonderful

My dad took this plane on a transatlantic flight to England in the 1960s.

My first flight was on an Avro York to Lagos just before they were withdrawn. Sadly I never got to fly on a Constellation and used to stand at various airports on the London to West Africa routes avidly watching them come and go. Great video ... thank you.

Flying in one of these is ony bucket list!

I was a former HOP’AIRLINES Flight attendant (purser) I saw in BASEL THE SUPER CONNIE

My dad had emigrated to Canada from Holland by boat. The first time he went back for a visit, he flew back on one of these. When ever the conversation of flying back to Holland. He would have to bring up the story, of watching the flames coming out of the exuast.

❤❤❤❤❤ How amazing. Such a lovely old bird . Lots of smoke 😅

I flew on these for years in the USAF (EC-121) and have close to 2500 hours on them. The finest three engine aircraft Lockheed ever built. And like a Harley, if it runs, it leaks oil. 😎😎

Half tank is empty before take off... This plane uses in total 26000l fuel, each engine need 1800l fuel and 13l oil per hour . Each engine have his own oil tank with a capacity of 161l oil and is connected to an emergency oil tank with 253l. The travel speed is 492 km/h max.speed is 543km/h in a altitude of 10.000fuß or 1.400 m...

That engine view 💦💦💦💦

Awesome video, very brave to fly in that thing. I have seen a few restored airplanes and they usually looks cleaner and the brakes don't sounds like that. I am with the pilot who like I was surprised the wing was still there. If there were a hordes of zombies chasing me I would probably have to think about getting in that thing. Thank you for the video though you are a very brave person.

this plane can go fast than airbus nice superconstellation

wow I thought they were just going for a little taxi ride but it flies! wasn't expecting that, I mean when you take into account how old that plane is.. They must have taken very well care of it.

Muy buena causa y muy buen objetivo, agradezco que los jóvenes salgan a decir los muchos fallos que se están produciendo en nuestra España. Gracias campeones

At 5:53,😲wow what a flame.

She looks fast sittin on the tarmac. My father said that about two aircraft of his AF piloting era, the Connie and the B 58 Hustler.

Donizete Bragaca sp Brasil ✈✈✈✈✈✈

Fui de Mexico a Paris de pequeño en un avion de estos Recuerdo la nieve en terranova y el fuego del escape de los motores por la noche

Quelle Charme

33:13, es muy amplio. Y se mastica con la boca cerrada.

Couldn’t help but notice the radium painted dials in the cockpit. Radium infused paint was applied to cockpit dials until 1960. But still, the Constellation was the best 4 engine prop airliner ever made.

33:15 guy on the left looks like James Lance the man who plays Trent Crimm on Ted Lasso

I simply must fly on one of these before I croak!

Now I know where J-type diplomatic barge, AKA the Naboo Royal Cruiser got it's sound from (That Ship that has that B2 style design from the opening scenes of Star Wars Episode 2).

Amazing. I've seen the Star of Switzerland fly over Lucerne a few times. Really should seize the opportunity before she's retired one sad day. I'm amazed how spacious the cabin is! Btw, those 70-year old Pratt & Whitneys are a lot quieter than those much newer turboprop city-hoppers I've flown in. But... what on earth is that ghastly whine while they're taxiing?

Saddly I think this plane is no longer flying due to hi costs and covid , one of my favourite piston aircraft from that golden age of the last piston Trans Atlantic fly era before the Jet Take over . I was lucky to see this very Aircraft along with a DC6 and a JU-52 here in Hamburg Germany at the Airports centenary celebrations on display at the Lufthansa Technical headquarters located at the far end of the Airport both the Constellation and the DC 6 were joined by the then new Airbus 380 they looked like toys compared basically sitting under the wings of the massive airliner. Saddly the JU-52 is no longer flying too again a victim of cut backs after the near collapse of the aviation industry during covid . She has now been relocated from Hamburg to another Airport but with no plans to return her to flying .at the same time Lufthansa were restoring their own Constellation to return to flying , but there as gone silent. Lufthansa was bailed out by the German federal government to save loosing people jobs during the first and 2 nd Covid waves , the government took a controlling stake in the company this will be returned in the near future , but I am guessing luxury restoration project have been currently put on hold until the Airline industry has stabilised.but still I was lucky enough to see all three of these important piston passenger aircraft all sound wonderful.

You failed to show us the complete picture of this beautiful aircraft regards

For all those interested, please check out my other video filmed on this bird, still with the old US-registration N73544. Part 1 : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qJyRi6WrpqqvaKc.html and Part 2 : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/at6jaJBkmMrdiI0.html filmed in 2004.

All the interior and insulation is removed. Im sure in the day, the flight would have been alot more quiet/comfortable. But the motors sound sweet on takeoff!

I'll take the seat next to the crazy spinning blade please...

Le Super Constellation (un quadri- moteurs) de l'avionneur Locheed a été une intéressante et belle machine qui a révolutionné le transport aérien. On peut voir dans cette vidéo tout le process du pilotage de l'envol de l'aéroport de départ jusqu'a l'aéroport d'arrivée : décollage, montée, altitude, croisière, descente, approche, attérissage puis le roulage jusqu'à l'aérogare. Il faisait New-York/Paris en 14 H. Le 707 de Boeing le fera en 07 H.

Лет 15 назад я видел этот великолепный самолет над Амстердамом.....

Pity there is so much talking during statrt-up. 😣 Personally I would be 100% focussed on taking in all the sights, sounds, smells, sensations of this opportunity. What a treat for all those participants ☺

Very lucky..

Aircraft of this era were something special. 70 or so years later and people line up for the chance to fly on these radial queens. I just don't think people will be lining up for the chance to fly on an A320 Neo in 2090.