Stretching its 123-foot wingspread over Southern California mountains, the Lockheed Super Connie is shown above in its first flight photo - 1951. Its builders added 18 feet, 5 inches to its fuselage, for a total of 113 feet, 7 inhces. The new Constellation was, at 1951, the only U.S. transport built so that it can be fitted with increasingly powerful engines, from the latest reciprocating types to gas turbines driving propellers. Passenger version can accommodate from 47 to 93 persons, depending on seating plan; military type will seat up to 110. Added strength has been built into the transport plane to take turboprop speeds in excess of 400 m.p.h.
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