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The advent of jet airliners, with the de Havilland Comet, Boeing 707, and Convair 880, rendered the piston-engined Constellation obsolete. The first routes lost to jets were the long overseas routes, but Constellations continued to fly domestic routes. The last scheduled passenger flight of a four-engined piston-engined airliner in the United States was made by a TWA L749 on 11 May 1967 from Philadelphia to Kansas City, MO.Many Constellations continued to serve as fast freighters for years to come.
The advent of jet airliners, with the de Havilland Comet, Boeing 707, and Convair 880, rendered the piston-engined Constellation obsolete. The first routes lost to jets were the long overseas routes, but Constellations continued to fly domestic routes. The last scheduled passenger flight of a four-engined piston-engined airliner in the United States was made by a TWA L749 on 11 May 1967 from Philadelphia to Kansas City, MO.Many Constellations continued to serve as fast freighters for years to come.
The first CONNIE group flight we did last time commemorated the first commercial flight of the Lockheed Constellation from New York to Bermuda. This group flight will commemorate the LAST commercial flight of the Lockheed Constellation from Philadelphia to Kansas City MO. I have decided to break this flight into two portions on two consecutive MONDAYS with a intermediate stop-over at Wright-Patterson AFB. The reason Wright-Patterson AFB was chosen is that on the second flight of the first constellation, Howard Hughes flew to Wright Field to pick up Orville Wright for his last airplane flight.
CONNIE FLIGHT: Last Commercial Flight - PART 1:
Monday, January 20, 2014 9-11 pm Philadelphia to Wright-Patterson
Flight plan: http://sdrv.ms/1aw4dP6
Please note the VOR frequencies in the "Description" column and heading in degrees for navigation usage. Departure from Philadelphia (KPHL) will be on runway 27R. and landing at Wright-Patterson (KFFO) on runway 23R with an ILS of 109.7Mhz at 234°. This will be a early twilight departure and a late twilight landing. We will be flying at about 23,000 ft most of the way.
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