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New software holds the key to mapping your dreams

Apparently there is someone out there who has decided to map your dreams.

Naturally, as a software practitioner, this makes me wonder. I think if you hooked me up to this contraption, the 'map of my dream' would look something like this:

Kinda takes your breath away, doesnt it?

The only thing better than being lucky enough to have seen a Connie in the air is actually having been in one while it was in the air. Ive done both and yes, I still dream about her. What a machine...

Photo from 'Flyings Golden Age' The colors are much more vivid in my dreams...

Posted @ December 12, 2008 06:39 PM | Current Affairs

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I remember CLEAR AS A BELL flying at night in a Connie from Miami to Panama. Being a 5 year old boy, I got to sit in the cockpit for a few minutes - I still remember the cockpit layout and seeing the tip of Cuba (pre-Hope&Change)... Thanks for the picture & the memories.

Posted by: Mike Runs at December 13, 2008 09:22 AM

Hi -

Never flew a Connie, but there is no doubt that it remains one of the most beautiful planes in flight ever build. Shucks, even on the ground it was ... sublime.

To take a look at a Connie on the ground via a Gigapan, take a look here:

http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=9344

One of the snapshots takes you to a Lockheed Constellation...

Can't miss it. :-)

Posted by: John F. Opie at December 14, 2008 02:38 PM

> The only thing better than being lucky enough to have seen a Connie in the air is actually having been in one while it was in the air.

Saturn V launch, Frank. Esp. the night one.

One of the most powerful machines ever created by Man doing one of the most impressive things He's ever done.

The ground literally shaking at 7 miles away, with the sky lit up like daylight for more than 90 degrees on either side of your view of it (I've seen the shuttle launch, too. A much more effective machine, but it's as impressive as a loud motorcycle).

Not buying the notion that an airplane, any airplane, is gonna beat that.
;-)

Posted by: OBloodyhell at December 15, 2008 02:43 PM

Gotta go with OHBLOODYHELL on that one. I was camped (in my car) on a beach in Titusville, Florida, Dec 6, 1972 to see Apollo 17 go up at night.

Because of weather concerns, a hold prevented the launch until a bit after midnight, making it Pearl Harbor Day when it went. My position was a bit over 12 miles from the launch pad, and as he noted you could FEEL as well as hear that roar.

THAT will live with me forever.
-

Posted by: Paul_In_Houston at December 15, 2008 07:17 PM

Paul, I lived in Orlando at the time. My 9th grade science class went over for it -- I was, I think, just mature enough to really appreciate it.

We were across the highway from the Merrit Square Mall. About 7 miles, as I recall, which about jibed with the sound... that sucker lit up, but it was a full 30-odd seconds before you heard or felt it.

As you say, it's not the sort of moment you forget... for as long as your brain functions.

Posted by: OBloodyhell at December 16, 2008 01:11 PM

The Connie that used to fly the US airshow circuit went some years ago to a museum in Korea. I had been owned by a nonprofit sponsored by a syndicate including among others Vern Raburn. It was getting impossible to afford (even when avgas was $3 a gallon) and, in Vern's phrase, the "tribal knowledge" needed to keep it running was fading.

Maurice Roundy in Maine had three of them, of which two went to Lufthansa Stiftung [Foundation] and will be used to provide one flying example for the European airshow circuit, if plans stay on track. Fitting as Maurice's birds were ex-Lufthansa.

They are getting around the tribal knowledge problem, for now, by depending on a lot of octogenarian volunteer mechanics, and bright younger ones with a passion for old machinery.

The Constellation's elegant shape was strictly functional -- the triple tail let it into hangars a large single slab would have locked it out of, and the curvaceous profile view was driven by aerodynamics -- the Connie flew faster and further, burning less fuel (although "less" is relative, in absolute numbers it's shocking) than its competitors, the DC-6 and 7.

One thing to remember is that the Constellation, like a Fokker or Nieuport, seems quaint to us now but was the high-tech of its day. Its fiendishly complex turbocompound radials were the pinnacle of Otto cycle engine development -- the R&D went to turbines and never came back.

Posted by: Kevin R.C. O'Brien at December 23, 2008 09:41 AM