Can't you just hear the sound of those 3350's?

Very rainy morning....notice the use of a rag on the pilots window to keep the cockpit dry. The aircraft was at Pax River for the training of pilots going through the Navy's test pilot school.

Military Air Transport Service VC-121A of 1254 Air Transport Group on final approach to RAF Burtonwood, Lancashire, in 1955. The aircraft wears the contracted serial 8609 and later became C-GXKO and N494TW and is now preserved in South Korea.

The most graceful airliner ever. This example visited Flying Legends 1998 but did not land. It has since been grounded and preserved in Korea but two of the engines were given to the Aviodrome to assist in returning their aircraft, N749NL to the skies. Inexplicably, though that aircraft could now fly it has been grounded due to a management decision. Scanned from 35 mm negative film.

The MATS Connie departs Avra Valley for the final time on the morning of April 1, 2005.

A sight never to be repeated.....The MATS Connie in the foreground with sistership 48-610 "Columbine II" in the background

Taxiing to runway 30 at Avra Valley for a test flight prior to the long ferry flight to South Korea.

Looking good on a cluttered ramp after a recent polishing.

Massive amounts of smoke as the No.3 engine comes to life!