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Super Constellation takeoff DuPage Airport, St Charles, IL pt. 1

PLEASE NOTE! I've uploaded another version of this video on YouTube that can be heard in stereo (if so equipped) and is edited down from two parts to one. The link is    • Lockheed Super "G" Constellation flig...   If you wish to see this Constellation flight in mono sound and in its' entirety, then continue watching this video. This two-part video of a total of 42 minutes is pure Super Constellation sights and sounds. So, crank up the volume on your computer or TV, fasten your seat belts (it won't be a bumpy flight) and enjoy! This was recorded on July 24, 1994, when the Save-A-Connie group's Lockheed Super "G" Constellation, N6937C, Star of America, was returning back to its home base at Downtown Kansas City Airport, Kansas City, MO after an airshow at DuPage Airport in West Chicago, IL (a western suburb of Chicago). We immediately begin with the startup of the four Wright R-3350 turbo-compound 18-cylinder (each) piston engines firing up in the usual sequence of engines 3-4-2-1. Then, after a quick visit to the cockpit, we taxi out to the warmup block and the cockpit crew runs up and down the engines to test their magneto (generator) outputs, propellers, etc., Next, we taxi onto the runway and hold for about a minute before the engines are throttled up for a northbound takeoff at 7:50 followed by transitioning from takeoff power to METO (that's maximum except takeoff power) and then a turn to the left for a southwest bearing towards K.C and a 2–3-hour long flight. As we fly over the next town west, St Charles, IL along with the Fox River, listen for the power reduction to "climb power" at 9:40. At last, we're leisurely climbing beyond the western suburbs of Chicago and we are over the green farmland of northern Illinois. Now, it's as if you have several window seats to choose from to listen to and view the four powerful Wrights do their thing effortlessly taking us higher in the warm summer air. At about 15 minutes into this video, we reach our cruising altitude of 6,000 ft. Listen for the engines again transition at 15:05 this time from climb power to cruise power. Note the change in engine sound and the ever so slight slowdown of the spinning props as the propellers switch over to course blade pitch. Then, we're back in the cockpit where we see the crew at their stations and note that the flight engineer sitting is getting coached from the standing flight engineer on certain operations of the airplane. After our cockpit visit (there'll be more in pt. 2) we get a look at the navigator's table and panel with its respective flight instruments. Back in the 1950's, airlines flying over the world's oceans used a navigator to guide their aircraft to their destinations. We then walk back towards the rear (the individual tipping his hat was Save-A-Connie member Gary King who flew in from the United Kingdom for a round trip from KC to DuPage and back) and get a quick glimpse of the accounting of the weekend's Connie memorabilia sales receipts followed by a view of the left fin (yes, you can indeed see either left or right fin from inside the cabin). Lastly, we end up looking at the sleeping lady wearing the eye mask. Please proceed to Part 2 for a return to the cockpit and a "jumpseat" behind the pilot view, the landing and then shut down of all four engines at Kansas City Downtown Airport.