Lockheed Super News Today

Former defence aircraft will stage a flypast over eight locations along the NSW coast in an aerial Anzac...

In the last year TAP have come under intense criticism. I have been travelling with TAP for over forty years, national and international and apart from the last...

Article content The masses have always had a fascination with big planes. So in 1954, Trans-Canada Airlines decided the best way to introduce its new line of Lockheed Super Constellations was to fly one to Vancouver and let the public tour it. “Not just a Constellation,” said an ad in the May 4, 1954 Vancouver Sun. “Not just a Super Constellation. But the latest, greatest version of this superb aircraft type. Truly a SUPER Constellation!” Try refreshing your browser, or This Week in H...

An exciting new book is being published on May 14. Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival was written by Eric Lindner and tells the incredible story of Tiger Flight 923 in 1962. Piloted by John Murray, the plane with 76 souls on board, gradually lost three of its four engines and was forced to ditch into the cold and violent Atlantic Ocean. The incident was not widely known. An American Catholic, John Murray previously had played a role in th...

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