Shaggy Sheep driver
Just before he announced the purchase of Lockheed-built Connies with P&W engines for the airline!
Just a little correction in that, with the exception of 4 aircraft, all Connies flew with one mark or other of the Wright 3350.
Now back in 1942, due to problems with the 3350 and supplies of that engine going first to the B-29, Lockheed did offer the military the chance to fit the
P & W R-2800 engine to the Connie but this was not taken up
After the war and with the forth coming introduction of the DC-6 Lockheed offered
ALL the airlines the choice of 3 different engines so as to keep the Connie competative with this DC-6. These engines were
P&W R-2800 [2,200 HP] Wright 3350 [ 2200 hp] Bristol Centaurus [2300 hp]
However no airline took up any of the options and all stuck with the 3350
The exceptions were 4 aircraft, originally all for the US Navy, which were fitted with four P & W T34-P-6 turbo props which had 6,000 shaft HP each.These aircraft known as R7Vs were to evaluate the long range operation of turbo props and two of them were given to the US airforce where they were called C-121G. The airframe for these four aircraft was a Super Connie design