Lockheed Constellation

Lockheed Constellation merupakan sebuah pesawat sayap rendah (low wing) yang dibuat oleh Lockheed Corporation. Pesawat ini dahulu merupakan pesawat paling populer di dunia untuk waktu yang lama. Lockheed Constellation pertama kali mengudara pada 1943. Hingga sekarang ini sudah tidak diproduksi lagi.

Lockheed Constellation

Lockhhed L-049, varian sipil pertama Lockhhed Constellation
Tipe	Pesawat terbang
Terbang perdana	9 Januari 1943
Diperkenalkan	1943 dengan USAAF 1945 dengan TWA
Dipensiunkan	1978 (militer) 1990-an (sipil)
Pengguna utama	Trans World Airlines
Pengguna lain	Eastern Air Lines Pan Am Air France
Tahun produksi	1943–1958
Jumlah produksi	856
Acuan dasar	L-044 Excalibur
Varian	L-049 Constellation C-69 Constellation L-649 Constellation L-749 Constellation L-1049 Super Constellation C-121/R7V Constellation R7V-2/YC-121F Constellation EC-121 Warning Star L-1649A Starliner

Pesawat ini mulai diproduksi pada tahun 1943 hingga dipensiunkan pada pertengahan 1990-an. Jumlah produksinya adalah 856.

Referensi

• Birtles, Phillip. Lockheed L-1011 TriStar (Airliner Color History). St. Paul: Minnesota: Motorbooks International, 1998. ISBN 978-0-7603-0582-9.
• Boyne, Walter J. Beyond the Horizons: The Lockheed Story. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. ISBN 0-312-24438-X.
• Cacutt, Len, ed. "Lockheed Constellation". Great Aircraft of the World. London: Marshall Cavendish, 1989. ISBN 1-85435-250-4.
• Germain, Scott E. Lockheed Constellation and Super Constellation. North Branch, Minnesota: Specialty Press, 1998. ISBN 1-58007-000-0.
• Marson, Peter J. The Lockheed Constellation Series. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians), 1982. ISBN 0-85130-100-2.
• Pace, Steve. X-Planes: Pushing the Envelope of Flight. Osceola, Wisconsin: Zenith Imprint, 2003. ISBN 978-0-7603-1584-2.
• Sampson, Anthony. Empires of the Sky: The Politics, Contest and Cartels of World Airlines. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985. ISBN 0-340-37668-6.
• Smith, M.J. Jr. Passenger Airliners of the United States, 1926–1991. Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1986. ISBN 0-933126-72-7.
• Stringfellow, Curtis K. and Peter M. Bowers. Lockheed Constellation: A Pictorial History. St. Paul, Minnesota: Motorbooks, 1992. ISBN 0-87938-379-8.
• Taylor, Michael J.H., ed. "Lockheed Constellation and Super Constellation". Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. New York: Crescent, 1993. ISBN 0-517-10316-8.
• United States Air Force Museum Guidebook. Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio: Air Force Museum Foundation, 1975.
• Yenne, Bill, Lockheed. Greenwich, Connecticut: Bison Books, 1987. ISBN 0-517-60471-X.

Pranala luar

• Lockheed Martin official site
• Popular Science, June 1943, The Flying Shark one of the first detailed articles on the C-69 Constellation
• Connie Survivors
• Goleta Air and Space Museum: Lockheed Constellation Survivors
• Warbird Alley: Connie page
• Gallery of civilian and military Lockheed Constellations worldwide and links to other galleries.
• A photograph and description of VH-EAB and two colored promotional posters for Qantas Empire Airways's Constellation services, Qantas Empire Airways Lockheed L749 Constellation VH-EAB.
• Restoration of Lockheed L-1649A Super Star to airworthy condition by Lufthansa Technik
• One of four similar aerial photographs of VH-EAB by Frank Hurley, with brief annotation
• MATS Connie; aircraft specifications
• Super Constellation Flyers Association
• Many detailed close-up photographs of the Constellation from the Airline History Museum Diarsipkan 2008-01-09 di Wayback Machine.
• Travelling by the Constellation. Air France clips and pictures from the 1950s (in French) Diarsipkan 2007-08-27 di Wayback Machine.
• Maintenance parts catalog Constellation model L-049 reissue:1947
• Super Connies in São Tomé airport, survivors of Biafra Airlift