I just got home and found my inbox stuffed with grundles of U-A messages. Nice to see the list so active but I should mention to the new folks that this sort of activity only happens every now and then. Most days on U-A are pretty quiet. Now a few contributions. On 06 Sep 2011, at 15:06, Chuck Hards wrote:
The 109 is iconic, to be sure. Ever hear of any of the Horton flying wings? It's that technology, part of America's war booty, that got our own Northrop flying wings in the air.
Of course there's YouTube video: The original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjXr5w3M4mc A recent remake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4meQYdaeT58 Now getting back to the Connie (IMHO the most beautiful airliner ever built), here's a fun set of videos featuring Arthur Godfrey (anyone remember him on the radio?) and the Connie: Eastern L-1049 Constellation-"Flying With Arthur Godfrey" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLibuxRboZQ And some of the saddest shots of a Connie I've ever seen but a very good lesson to those learning to fly multiengine aircraft showing why you do not turn into a dead engine: http://366th-tfw.net/wiggins.htm patrick