OK, John, Denys, and others ... I stand corrected, thanks.
In fact, I never flew a Constellation / Super Constellation. I just remember
seeing one at Orly (the airport south of Paris, not our friend Orly Larson
when I was a kid, perhaps 4-5 yrs old. So I'm not the right person to tell
what kind of engine it used to have, hence my inaccuracy. I just remember
for sure it was operated by TWA (perhaps others... TWA is the one I'm sure
of), had a 3-piece tail rudder, and propellers, and was quickly obsoleted by
the 707, the DC-8 and all other jetliners.
I'm old enough to have flown a 707, that's all.
Christian Lheureux
Responsable du Departement Systemes et Reseaux / Head of Systems and
Networks Department
APPIC R.H.
business partner hp invent
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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]De la
> part de Denys Beauchemin
> Envoye : vendredi 17 janvier 2003 16:47
> A : [log in to unmask]
> Objet : Re: [HP3000-L] Fwd: OT: Fun Quiz
>
>
> Just a correction here.
>
>
> Item 42:
> The Super Constellation was never jet propelled. The version of the
> Lockheed airliner to which Christian is referring is the
> L-1049 A through H.
> The H version (the last of the 1049 AKA Super Constellation)
> had 4 Wright
> Cyclone R-3350-988TC18EA-2 Turbo-Compound Engines. The
> R-3350 is a twin-row
> supercharged, air-cooled radial piston engines with 18 cylinders and a
> displacement of 3,350 cubic inches. This model was rated @
> 3,400 HP. These
> engines were a later version of the Wright R-3350 Turbo
> Compound radial
> engine used in the Boeing B-29 of Hiroshima fame, and were
> also used in the
> Douglas AD-1 Skyraider and the Lockheed Neptune.
>
> The Connie and Super Connie were beautiful, graceful
> aircrafts, which had a
> short lifespan in airline service. The definitive version of the this
> aircraft, the L-1649 Starliner was built in 1955, just a few
> years before
> the introduction of the De Havilland Comet, Boeing 707
> jetliner and the
> Douglas DC-8. These jetliners spelled the early doom of the beautiful
> Connie.
>
> BTW, If you are visiting the Netherlands, at the Schipol
> airport, there is a
> Connie (L-749) on exhibit that has been rebuilt over many
> years and has just
> returned. Project Connie Comeback can be viewed at:
> http://www.aviodome.nl/connieng.htm
>
>
>
> Denys
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
> Christian Lheureux
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 2:31 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Fwd: OT: Fun Quiz
>
> Though I'm not American (and some of these items are typically North
> American), I scored 18.
>
> One could add :
>
> 34 - HP3000s with a 16-bit bank of rocker switches on the front panel
> 35 - MPE v.u.f.s beginning wih A.
> 36 - Breakfast at HP Sales Offices with croissants
> 37 - An HP share split every 18 months
> 38 - HP NOT being in the Fortune 500
> 39 - HP being an instrument company
> 40 - HP NOT being a publicly traded company
> 41 - MPE releases with names ("Athena", "Bruno", "Ciper",
> "Impact" ...)
> 42 - Flying from the States to Europe and vice-versa in a
> jet-propelled
> Super Constellation with a stopover in the Azores islands
> 43 - Ships carrying more passengers than airplanes to and from America
> 44 - Elvis being alive
> 45 - Football field-size computer rooms with a kitchen
> fridge-size HP3000 in
> the middle
> 46 - HP discs (note the C, no K yet !!!) being able to handle sector
> atomicity and write sequentiality
> 47 - HP considering the opening of a sales office in Europe
> 48 - The biggest disk being a 13" 5-mb single-platter mirrored onto an
> identical removable one
> 49 - An 800-BPI backup tape being quite an achievement
> 50 - HP considering expanding into non-impact printers
>
> Christian Lheureux
> Responsable du Departement Systemes et Reseaux / Head of Systems and
> Networks Department
> APPIC R.H.
> business partner hp invent
> Tel : +33-1-69-80-97-22 / Fax : +33-1-69-80-97-14 / e-mail :
> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> AIM nickname : MPE Evangelist
> "Le Groupe APPIC recrute, contactez nous !"
>
>
>
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]De la
> > part de fred White
> > Envoye : jeudi 16 janvier 2003 18:57
> > A : [log in to unmask]
> > Objet : [HP3000-L] Fwd: OT: Fun Quiz
> >
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > I called this "fun quiz" since I know that a lot of
> > > you won't "remember."
> > >
> > > DO YOU REMEMBER?
> > >
> > > A friend of mine was cleaning out his
> > > grandmother's house after she passed
> > > away and he showed me an old Royal Crown Cola
> > > bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch
> > > of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but
> > > he had no idea. He thought they had tried to
> > > make it a salt shaker or something.
> > > I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end
> > > of the ironing board to "sprinkle" clothes with
> > > because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am
> > > old. How many do you remember??
> > >
> > > Older Than Dirt Quiz - Count all the ones
> > > that you remember-not the ones you were told about!
> > >
> > > Ratings at the bottom.
> > >
> > > 1. Blackjack chewing gum
> > > 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
> > > 3. Candy cigarettes
> > > 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
> > > 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
> > > 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with
> > > cardboard stoppers
> > > 7. Party lines
> > > 8. Newsreels before the movie
> > > 9. P.F. Flyers
> > > 10. Butch wax
> > > 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix
> > > (Olive - 6933)
> > > 12. Peashooters
> > > 13. Howdy Doody
> > > 14. 45 RPM records
> > > 15. S&H Green Stamps
> > > 16. Hi-fi's
> > > 17. Metal ice trays with lever
> > > 18. Mimeograph paper
> > > 19. Blue flashbulb
> > > 20. Packards
> > > 21. Roller skate keys
> > > 22. Cork popguns
> > > 23. Drive-ins
> > > 24. Studebakers
> > > 25. Wash tub wringers
> > > 26. Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
> > > 27. Ignition switches on the dashboard.
> > > 28. Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
> > > 29. Real ice boxes.
> > > 30. Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
> > > 31. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
> > > 32. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
> > > 33. Going to the Store to test your television tubes.
> > >
> > > If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young.
> > > If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older.
> > > If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age.
> > > If you remembered 16-25 = You're ready for the old
> > > folks home.
> > > If you remembered 26-33 = You are older than dirt!
> >
> > I'm "older than dirt". Oh well .... FW
> >
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