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Roller Skate to Your JFK Gate - TWA Hotel Opens Roll-A-Rama at the Runway Rink May 13, 2021 Let’s roll! The landmark 512-room TWA Hotel — the only on-airport hotel at JFK Airport — will show roller skaters a wheel-y good time starting May 14, as its tarmac transforms into the Roll-A-Rama at the Runway Rink. Every weekend, skaters can pull up their tube socks, don their terry cloth headbands and glide around the 44-by-56-foot outdoor rink to retro tunes (maybe even some disco?) near a 1958 Lockheed Constellation Connie airplane turned cocktail lounge. Stay overnight and r...

Chicago soldier was aboard plane that vanished on the way to Vietnam in 1962 RADIO.COM 3 hrs ago © Provided by RADIO.COM prop airliner plane CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) —Fifty-nine years after a plane disappeared on a military mission to Vietnam, a memorial will be unveiled this weekend to honor the 93 American soldiers who were on board, including a Chicago Army private. It was Flying Tiger Line Flight 739. The prop airliner, a Lockheed Constellation, had just refueled in Guam before it disappeared on March 16, 1962 over the Pacific. One of the 93 American Army electronics and communicat...

The African Battleground: Ethiopian Airlines vs Kenya Airways vs SAA Advertisement: The African aviation market has seen plenty of change in the past years. As South African Airways’ situation has worsened, that of Ethiopian Airlines and Kenya Airways has improved. The two have battled to become the leading hub in East Africa. Ethiopian Airlines has moved ahead now, but this was not always the case. This article looks at this battle through the story of each of the three airlines. Ethiopian Airlines has risen rapidly in recent years to be the largest carrier in Africa. Photo: Vincenzo Pace ...

The EC-121 served well for many decades in protecting America and its allies from attack. The Lockheed Constellation entered service with the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War in 1943 as the C-69 Constellation, and most of those were later converted into civilian airplanes under the designation Lockheed L-049 Constellation. However, the United States Navy also began to see how the aircraft could be employed for patrol and airborne early warning duties in 1949. Designated the PO-1W, it was modified to carry experimental electronic surveillance equipment, and soon proved...

Lufthansa Lockheed Starliner Moves to Paderborn Airport in Germany Lufthansa Lockheed Starliner Moves to Paderborn Airport in Germany Photo via KTL Transporte GmbH After our most recent report from Constellation connoisseur Ralph Pettersen concerning the status of President Eisenhower’s executive VC-121 Constellation transport, Columbine II, presently under rebuild with Dynamic Aviation in Bridgewater, Virginia, a number of questions arose regarding what happened to Lockheed L-1649A Starliner N7361C which Lufthansa spent vast sums restoring, only to cancel the project at the last hurdle. O...