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Broken Hill - Connie

23/5/2012

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I was in Broken Hill, driving to Sydney. I had driven all day from Adelaide and was walking along the main street looking for a likely place to eat later that evening.
I heard an unusual sound. One we don't often hear today. The sound of an old aircraft with many engines. Looking up I saw the Lockheed Constellation in the photographs.
Quick dash to the Broken Hill airport where I spent the next 2 hours looking at the plane as it sat waiting for its next group of passengers. Then I saw it take of with its streams of black smoke from each engine.
Few can understand it I am sure but I was pretty pleased to have seen this incident. 

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14/11/2012 03:23:35

I can remember as a kid, watching Lockheed Constellations still in airline service, landing & taking off in Bristol.
I was captivated by their amazing lines - they looked to me as if they were already slicing through the air, even when they were standing on the tarmac.
I used to wonder where they might be going, and who rode in them.
I once carved out from blocks of balsa wood, a scale model of the Bristol Britannia, a later, similar-sized, but British-made airliner.
It looked pretty good too, as an display, not a flying model.
But the 'Connie' was just amazing to me at the time.

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