Hobby Master – Lockheed WC-121N Warning Star , ‚145934‘ „Draggin‘ Lady“ US Navy VW-1 , 1967

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                    Lockheed EC-121 / Lockheed Constellation

Lockheed Constellation („Connie“) je vrtulový dopravní letoun vyráběný mezi lety 1943 a 1958 firmou Lockheed Corporation v Burbanku v Kalifornii. Celkem bylo vyrobeno 856 letounu v různých verzích, z nichž všechny vynikaly trojitými svislými ocasnimi plochami, trupem ve tvaru delfína a ve většině případů 18válcovým motorem Wright R-3350. Letoun se dočkal jak civilního, tak i vojenského užití a byl nasazen například během blokády Berlína. PC-121A „Columbine II“ používal americký prezident Eisenhower, PC-121A „Bataan“ zase generál MacArthur.

The Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star was an American airborne early warning and control radar surveillance aircraft operational in the 1950s in both the United States Navy (USN) and United States Air Force (USAF).

The military version of the Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation was used to serve as an airborne early warning system to supplement the Distant Early Warning Line, using two large radomes (a vertical dome above and a horizontal one below the fuselage). It replaced the TBM-3W used by the USN. Some EC-121s were also used for signal intelligence gathering. The EC-121 was introduced in 1954 and phased out in 1978, although a single specially modified EW aircraft remained in USN service until 1982.

The Lockheed Constellation (“Connie“) is a propeller-driven, four-engined airliner built by Lockheed Corporationbetween 1943 and 1958 at Burbank, California. Lockheed built 856 in numerous models—all with the same triple-tail design and dolphin-shaped fuselage. Most were powered by four 18-cylinder Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclones. The Constellation was used as a civil airliner and as a military and civilian air transport, seeing service in the Berlin and the Biafran airlifts. Three of them served as the presidential aircraft for Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The initial military versions carried the Lockheed designation of L-049; as World War II came to a close, some were completed as civilian L-049 Constellations followed by the L-149 (L-049 modified to carry more fuel tanks).

The first purpose-built passenger Constellations were the more powerful L-649 and L-749 (which had more fuel in the outer wings), L-849 (an unbuilt model to use the R-3350 TurboCompound engines adopted for the L-1049 ), L-949 (an unbuilt, high-density seating-cum-freighter type, what would come to be called a “combi aircraft”).

These were followed by the L-1049 Super Constellation (with longer fuselage), L-1149 (proposal to use Allison turbine engines) and L-1249 (similar to L-1149, built as R7V-2/YC-121F), L-1449 (unbuilt proposal for L1049G, stretched 55 in (140 cm), with new wing and turbines)  and L-1549 (unbuilt project to stretch L-1449 95 in (240 cm)).

The final civilian variant was the L-1649 Starliner (all new wing and L1049G fuselage).

Military versions included the C-69 and C-121 for the Army Air Forces/Air Force and the R7O R7V-1 (L-1049B) EC-121 WV-1 (L-749A)WV-2 (L-1049B) (widely known as the Willie Victor) and many variant EC-121 designations for the Navy.