Talk:Lockheed R6V
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Special thanks to the archive researchers at the National Air and Space Museum for providing me with the SAE report and the Aviation Week articles on which I based this article.
[edit] Transcontinental flights
My current understanding of the transcontinental flights by the two Constitution follows:
- The first (163) made its flight in July, 1948, and this was the occasion on which the ship was christened at Washington Nat'l. (The cited Aviation Week article describes this, although I had previously attributed this to the second ship.)
- The second (164) made its first transcontinental flight in February, 1949, straight to Washington Nat'l. (A photograph in the February 14, 1949 issue of Time has a caption stating that this was the aircraft's first flight across the country. The front-page photograph of the plane's arrival in the Washington Post clearly displays the "164" on the nose.)
I will update this article as my understanding changes or grows. Willy Logan 00:16, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
