NEW YORK — The cacophony of modern air travel bustled around me as I made my way from the AirTrain through the ticket area of the JetBlue terminal of John F. Kennedy International Airport. Passengers ...

Cruising just a few hundred miles from the Persian Gulf shores of Iraq, the flagship of the closest U.S. armada to Saddam Hussein fires up its engines the old-fashioned way in the era of ...

The very first guest of the forthcoming TWA Hotel at JFK Airport is checking in months before its doors officially open next spring — and she’s never actually checking out. Meet “Connie,” a newly ...

Academy Award-winning actor John Travolta has long had a thing for Kansas City’s ‘Connie.’ A 1959 Lockheed Super-G Constellation aircraft, its distinctive triple-tail and dolphin nose have been a ...

I visited the HARS Aviation Museum in Australia and shared my experience of flying on the world’s last airworthy Lockheed “Connie” Constellation. It was really something different from yesteryear’s ...

The Lockheed Super Constellation is a beautiful aircraft – a classic US model from the 1950s that’s all smooth curves and powerful propellers leading out to an elegant triple tail fin. So it’s little ...

On October 13, 1950, the Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation made its first flight. The upgraded airliner, developed to compete with the DC-6, became a symbol of luxury and innovation in postwar ...

The USS Constellation (CV-64) was a Kitty Hawk class super-carrier and one of the fastest of the US Navy. She was nicknamed “Connie”. The United States aircraft carrier Constellation, which spent most ...

As these pictures show, the cockpit of the Super Connie has been transformed into an interactive timeline of the aircraft’s important role in Qantas history. Although this particular plane, which was ...

Day after day in the final America’s Cup trials, only the lightest of breezes rippled Rhode Island Sound, and day after day Constellation gently wafted to victory on the 7-and 8-knot whispers. “Ah, ...