Originally Posted by
bafanguy
This restoration is obviously a spectacular effort and project...awesome. But not "restoring" it to the state of the art when it left the factory leaves it a bit short of justice done.
These mighty airplanes deserve nothing less than respect for their origins. Isn't that why they get restored in the first place ?
I'm ambivalent about that. Happily, I'm old enough to have seen Connies (well C-121s) flying while they were still in USN service, and I enjoyed the display by one at Farnborough a few years back.
If a glass cockpit is judged to be the best way of getting another one in the air, I guess I can just about live with that.
Incidentally, it's criminal that the Science Museum keep theirs locked away out of sight of the public, it's a lovely example albeit not airworthy.