Remarks: During my-probably once in a very long time-visit to Airline History Museum, I had the amazing good fortune for the Super Connie to be taken out of the hangar and all four engines run up! Here you see the first one spinning.
Remarks: Hallo dolly! On board the aircraft, which has a fully restored passenger interior-tho not all the seats are original items, but that's a minor complaint.
Remarks: N1550 was later sold to Allegheny and damaged beyond economical repair when it overran the runway on landing at Rochester, NY (KROC), on July 9, 1978.
Remarks: She sits alone, gazing forlornly out the window, waiting for the guy who'll never come on board, the man of her dreams, not realizing that a mannequin sitting in a restored Connie has an even bleaker future than the beautiful aircraft she graces...