I found this interesting!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehwvZXVKmPU&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehwvZXVKmPU&feature=youtu.be
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The First Air Force One!!!!!
- Thread starter bob letterman
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Love those Connies...
Can't watch the video yet but looking forward to it.
Can't watch the video yet but looking forward to it.
Love those Connies...
Can't watch the video yet but looking forward to it.
In 1958, when I graduated Basic and second eight weeks training in the army at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, they flew me to Washington D.C. in a Constellation. I was stationed there at Fort Belvoir for eight months and then they flew me to France on another Connie. We flew out of Dulles to Nova Scotia, gassed up, then to Greenland, then to Shannon Ireland, and finally to Orly field in Paris. It took us 18 hours to get there. Today they do it in 6 hours!
Those were cool airplanes! I feel fortunate to have flown in them! By the time I came home in 1962, the 707s had taken over the airlines.
Bob
I bet you had more legroom than the sardine can I flew on today.
I bet you had more legroom than the sardine can I flew on today.
You have to remember that was 56 years ago. My main memories about flying in the Connie was the passenger areas were much smaller than those of the big jets of today. The other was the pilot, when approaching Dulles, flew over all the lighted monuments in D.C. at a really low altitude and as a 17 year old kid I was like, "Whoa"! It was really impressive. I've never forgotten that even though I have been to Washington more times than I can remember since.
