Video

Very interesting.

2023: I have flown Electras with American Airlines when I was a kid. My father worked for American. I loved that plane and that Sound! Thanks and Best Regards

Mom's favorite plane. Connie too.She flew with Eastern Air Lines

The T56 lives to this day as the T56-427 in the E-2D. Hawkeye new builds

Was hoping to see a Connie in this.Super G

The flying public shunned this airplane after a few well-publicized accidents. Many ended up being peddled by the airlines to South American carriers or underwent a cargo conversion at Lockheed Aircraft Service Co., which held the STC for the cargo conversion.

Connie with Turbo-props. A match made in Heaven.

NOTHING like the sound of four T56’s on the wing of a P3 or C130 making a low pass!

2:56-3:30 - Rohr Aircraft is today part of Collins Aerospace, a unit of Raytheon Technologies Corporation.

One crashed at Buffalo, Tx.

Eastern Airlines really inaugurated the Electra!!

Allison Engine's name is spelled with two l's, after its founder, James Allison. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Engine_Company

About 40 years ago my mom called me up and said be at LB airport at exec terminal at 7pm, a plane will pick you up, were doing Thanksgiving at Lake Havasu. I was expecting a Bonanza or 310 to show up. Instead this monstrous 4 enginged beast shows up, that said McCullough International. The terminal person escorted me out past two giant engines and like 12 foot props still running, then in front of the nose, where magically there was a staircase already set up, and only the inboard prop was just spinning down. I boarded, was shown my seat in this huge plane with about 10 other passengers, told to buckle up and less than a minute later we were rolling again. The terminal was close to the runway. We taxied out the 150 yards in about another minute, made a 180 turn and accelerated like it was a Corvette, complete with big roar of the engines. I looked out the window and the ground fell away insanely quick Another 10 seconds and went through some low coastal scud and broke out over the top and the top was all moonlit and kind of slow boiling. Less than an hour later we arrived in Lake Havasu, They held up the corporation dinner til us passengers arrived. The interior of the plane was more plush than plastic with large windows with curtains over them. It smelled slightly musty in there. Liked they should let it sit out in the desert son for a day with the doors open and let the inside bake . I apparently was the last passenger collected and first to be let off on the return trip a few days later. Found out later it was a Super Electra. It was kinda surreal. No standing in line, no checking in. Just go to this small terminal, wait 3 minutes, and get on this big dervishly whirling magic bus, and be in the air less than 5 mins later. It was definitely a noisier ride than a commercial jet, but loud gravelly hum was kind of hypnotizing. About an hour of that would be all I could tolerate

Here in Brazil, Varig operated this wonderful aircraft for 30 years. No accidents occurred during this period.

Flew Convair VC 131H with the Navy (CV 580) she jumped in the air, V2 climbs she hung on the props and climbed like a raped ape. Loved that T56 with the Aero Products 13'6" props. A bit noisy but engine out performance still had a lot of safety factor compared to the 2800 recip.

The jet took them over

I loved flying in the P-3c baseline! IFT VP-40 & 65

What engine is best? for todays planes???

👍👍

The Lockheed Constellation with four T-56s is absolutely beautiful.

My Fatherś Favorite Lockheed, No Wonder He was a Electrcian scholar in Amsterdam born November 25-1921

Super Constaletion, When Flying was Fun& Divng Save

Look Ma, no wings!

A great aircraft.

I flew on an Electra once, in the 1970s. Nowadays, the Bombardier Q400 is the turboprop of choice wher I fly.

Such confidence before Buffalo TX and Tell City Ind. Why wasn't there a similar confident film for version II?

still work on them, -13 and D22. on wing turbine and RGB changes. they are swinging Aeroproducts and HAM standard. D13 TIT 971 4kHP, D22G 1049 4300HP

I would fly to Chicago as a young child once a year or so for a few years in a row with my television engineer father going to see the trade demonstrations of RCA studio television cameras and equipment. Each time both coming and going on a few different Convair 240 types. Sometimes it would be in a radial engine and sometimes on the way back it would be in a newly converted turboprop version. Years later I saw one after it had crashed at the local airport, it was broken and split in the fuselage, don't know that it might have been one I once flew in. My first airliner flights, an autumn delight.

Lockheed = awesome

Pay attention boys - there will be a pop quiz after the film ! Quit screwing around -

GM / Allison. Still the finest !

ladies and gentlemen, if a wing breaks off..say goodby, see ya

14 Electras flew in Brazil, operating a shuttle service between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 400 km apart, from 1963 till january, 6th, 1992. Each one flew 54.000 hours, and 54.000 cicles. No one wa s e ver involved in an accident. Approximately 40.000.000 passengers were transported during operation.

Truly amazing technology for its time. I love to watch the mighty Lockheed Electra water bombers fly around my area.

19:20 The test monoitoring crew are all wearing parachutes! (Or is it only oxygen gear?)

I started working for Allison‘s in 1994 As an inspector FPI MPI inspect about every part of the T56 engine and gearbox The good old days they outsource most of the work now I make single crystal turbine blades:-)

"Holiday Airlines" flew Lockheed Electras in the 1960's, and early 70's when I was a kid. PSA also flew them too. I used to see them come in to LAX, and hear the "WOOSH" when they reversed the pitch on the props to slow down. I miss those days when most of the noise from LAX was the sound of droning propellers, and the backing from planes on real steep approaches with piston engines. At night l could see flames flashing when they were backfiring.(Of course they reversed the pitch once they landed 🙂) I lived less than 1 mile east of runway 25 left, I lived in lnglewood, 1 block from Lennox high school at the time. I had a multi band radio that I could listen to the aircraft communications. I loved it. I still listen to aircraft communications.

It's interesting the 501s are shown with both three and four-bladed props.

The C-130 at 17:48 has three-bladed props. I only ever recall seeing those with four blades!?

Fantastic video. Thank you for sharing this "gem"!

Unfortunately in airline service the Electra's fatal Achilles heel showed up.

My guess is that this video was made before the wings started falling off.

The narrator changes at 4:45. Sounds to me just like Ronald Reagan.

Rohr Aircraft is now Goodrich / UTC and they make engine nacelles.

Beautiful plane- but why’d they make instead of a jet?

I loved when the wings tore off and everyone plummeted into the ground.

Super Connies and Electras...Lockheed's best days.

Thanks for this video. Outstanding.

Too bad the Connie and turboprops together didn't fare better, that could have been an amazing airliner!

I was the flight engineer for over 8000 hours flying the P-3 Orion what a perfect plane i was also a forigen military sales team member in NAVAIR where this plane sold to over 15 allies what a great plane