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The Lockheed R6V Constitution was a large, propeller-driven, double-decker transport aircraft developed in the 1940s by Lockheed as a long-range, high capacity transport and airliner for the U.S. Navy and Pan American Airways. (The Constitutions were identified as R6O until 1950.) Only two of the aircraft were ever built, both prototypes. Although these two planes went into service with the Navy, the Constitution design ultimately proved underpowered and too large for practical airline use at the time. The Constitution remains the largest fixed-wing aircraft type ever operated by the U.S. Navy.
The Lockheed Constitution began life in 1942 as a joint study by the U.S. Navy, PanAm, and Lockheed. The design requirements, initially designated Lockheed Model 89, called for a large transport aircraft to improve upon the Navy's fleet of flying boats. PanAm was involved in the study because such an aircraft had potential use as a commercial airliner. This transport would carry 17,500 pounds of cargo 5,000 miles (8,000 km) at a cruising altitude of 25,000 feet (7,600 m) and a speed greater than 250 mph (400 km/h). The aircraft would be fully pressurized and large enough so that most major components could be accessed and possibly repaired in flight. For instance, tunnels led through the thick wings to all four engines.
The aircraft was designed by a team of engineers led by Willis Hawkins and W.A. Pulver of Lockheed and Commander E. L. Simpson, Jr. of the Navy. The name Constitution was given to the project by Lockheed president Robert E. Gross.[1]
The Constitution design had a "double bubble" fuselage, the cross section of which was a "figure eight". This unorthodox design utilized the structural advantages of a cylinder for cabin pressurization, without the wasted space that would result from a single large cylinder of the same volume.
The original contract from the Bureau of Aeronautics called for 50 Constitutions for a total price tag of $111,250,000. On VJ Day, however, the contract was scaled back to $27,000,000 for only two aircraft.
The second Constitution, BuNo 85164, first flew on 9 June 1948. This aircraft, like its predecessor, had a double-deck configuration. The second aircraft, however, had an upper deck fully furnished as a luxury passenger transport, with accommodations for 92 passengers and 12 crew. (Accommodations on the upper deck of the first Constitution were decidedly more spartan.) The upholstery on the upper deck was light gray with Navy blue trim. On the back of the forward bulkhead, in front of the spiral staircase leading to the lower deck, a permanent display case was occupied by a scale model of the original USS Constitution sailing ship.
The lower deck had 7,373 cubic feet (208.8 m3) of cargo space, and it was loaded by an electrical hoist. The lower deck could also be converted to seat an additional 76 passengers.
The second Constitution, like its predecessor, also made a nonstop transcontinental flight. On 3 February 1949, the aircraft flew its 16 crew and 74 members of the press from Moffett Field to Washington National Airport. At the time, this was the largest number of people flown across the United States in a single flight. This flight inaugurated six months of regular service between Washington, D.C. and San Francisco.
In the early 1950s, Ship No. 2 made a Navy recruiting tour of 19 cities. The side of the fuselage proudly advertised "YOUR NAVY—AIR AND SEA." Some 546,000 toured the aircraft's interior.[4]
[edit] Final disposition
The Constitution had operational difficulties which prevented it from meeting its original design objectives. The four Pratt & Whitney R-4360s did not offer the power needed by such a large aircraft. The engine also had cooling problems, which was corrected by flying with engine cooling gills partially open. This added drag decreased the overall range.
The Navy operated the two Constitution prototypes through the end of the 1940s and into the 1950s. By 1949, however, the Navy announced that it could no longer afford to operate these aircraft, and offered them to airlines on a five-year lease. No airlines expressed interest in using the Constitutions (the airline version was named the Model 189), so the Navy retired both aircraft in 1953. They went into storage at Litchfield Park, Arizona in 1955. Both aircraft and 13 spare engines were sold for $97,785. Lockheed proposed the Model 389 and Model 489 airliners based on the Constitution, which would have accommodated up to 169 passengers. Neither of these "paper" projects received much interest from civil operators.[5]
The first Constitution was brought to Las Vegas, where it served as an enormous billboard for Alamo Airways,[6] before getting scrapped by Howard Hughes when he acquired the property. [5] The second Constitution was flown to Opa-Locka Airport, Florida, where it was stored on the airfield before being towed to a scrap yard and became the object of interest of vandals who torched the aircraft, resulting in its final demise in 1979.[5]
The stern of the USS Constitution. The USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned naval warship still afloat in the world. She spends the vast majority of the time moored in Boston harbor where tourists can view her. She is taken out into the bay once a year by the US Navy.
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located on the both the Piscataqua river and the Atlantic Ocean. Here's the history lesson, formerly known as Fort William and Mary was a British held munitions depot. In 1774 the New Hampshire Friends of Liberty stormed the fort and raided the munitions. The fort was renamed "Fort Constitution" in 1808. Now it shares space with the Coast Guard and visitors have to follow and stay on this stupid blue line across their parking lot to get to the fort.
The tender has to be a little higher than in the original as it has to accommodate the Power Functions stuff.
USS Constitution, known as "Old Ironsides," is a wooden-hulled, three-masted frigate of the United States Navy. Named after the United States Constitution, she is the oldest commissioned ship afloat in the world, and is still in service in the US Navy. The Constitution was one of the six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and was launched in 1797. Joshua Humphreys designed them to be the Navy's capital ships and so Constitution and her sisters were larger and more heavily armed than the standard frigates of the period.
Julian E. Zelizer, one of the pioneers in the revival of American political history, was the keynote speaker at Stockton University’s annual Constitution Day celebration Sept. 19, 2017, in the Campus Center Event Room. His topic was “Constitution Democracy in the Era of Donald Trump.”
View of the Wellington Arch viewed from the centre of Constitution Hill.
Planned in 1825 by George IV to commemorate Britain's victories in the Napoleonic Wars. The Wellington Arch was also conceived as an outer gateway to Constitution Hill and therefore a grand entrance into central London from the west.
The Wellington Arch was built between 1826-1830 to a design by Decimus Burton. In 1882-3, the arch was moved a short distance to its present location on Hyde Park Corner to facilitate a road widening scheme. In the new location it lost its original relationship to the entrance of Hyde Park, but it acquired a new position as the entrance to Constitution Hill.
On top is a huge bronze quadriga designed by Adrian Jones. It is based on a smaller original which caught the eye of Edward VII at a Royal Academy exhibition. The sculpture depicts the angel of peace descending on the chariot of war.
The USS Constitution in Boston, Massachusetts / USA.
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Die USS Constitution in Boston, Massachusetts / USA.
USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. Named after the Constitution of the United States of America by President George Washington, she is the oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat in the world. Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts.
The USS Constitution in Boston, Massachusetts / USA.
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Die USS Constitution in Boston, Massachusetts / USA.
The USS Constitution in Boston, Massachusetts / USA.
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Die USS Constitution in Boston, Massachusetts / USA.
The USS Constitution in Boston, Massachusetts / USA.
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Die USS Constitution in Boston, Massachusetts / USA.
after i was in pucon and chiloe i wanted to go to cordoba. i looked into bus tickets to go there and it seemed really expensive. then some friends offered me a cheaper option. they'd taken a train, well technically two trains, from buenos aires to bariloche for a quater of the price. if i could get to bariloche, which isn't that far from pucon, then i could do the reverse journey, and then get another train to cordoba. i could save a lot of money, plus get to go to places in buenos aires that i missed out on when i was there before. it sounded too good to be true. which meant of course it was. the first train that departed bariloche only leaves once a week, and it was booked out for about 6 weeks. i replaced that with a bus, managed to get the second train but then found out the train to cordoba was booked out for 6 weeks as well. high season will fuck you up. so my plan of one bus and three trains has now changed to one train and three buses - and i'm still not in cordoba yet. meh. i haven't worked out if i've spent less or more money than the direct bus, but travelling is about seeing places, not spending hours on a bus, so i'm rolling with it. this is the inside of the only train station that i've disembarked at, constitution in buenos aires.
here's the original
The Castle of the Luna, 18 th century, a beautiful monument built on the remains of a Moslem “Ribat”. After its restoration in 1999 it became the Town Council Offices.
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Across from the Five Points MARTA station at the corner of Forsyth and Alabama is this abandoned building that once housed the offices of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper and later the Georgia Power Company. It was built in 1947 and has been vacant since at least 1981.
This storefront at 916 Constitution Blvd in New Kensington, Pennsylvania was razed not too long after this photo was taken.