Constellation

[Wander00]

Flew out of Nantes on Thursday and as we took off caught a glimpse of a Constellation on far side of the airfield. Anyone have any information on the aircraft, is it being restored for example

Thanks

W

[dook]

It has been restored and is now conserved.

Google "Nantes Constellation".

[Wander00]

Dook, that is good news. Thanks. will look

[Fareastdriver]

Unfortunately Lufthansa have just abandoned plans to restore theirs to flying condition.

[dook]

Restoring to flying condition is a much bigger job than preservation though.

[Fareastdriver]

Agreed; but Lufthansa have just grounded their JU 52 for the same reasons.

[SpringHeeledJack]

Seems to be a mixture of money and risk exposure causing the tide to go out in the nostalgia flights world. That JU-52 crash last year in Switzerland changed the game, perhaps for good. At least there are various Connies around the world preserved for those that wish to see them.

[Wander00]

When I was about 7 or 8 Dad had to go to a fortnightly sales meeting at his firm's factory on the Poyle Trading Estate at Colnbrook. He went to the meeting and I stood outside for a couple of hours right under the flight path of the (usually) landing piston engined airliners. I can still feel the rumble through you one got from 4 large radial engines