Lockheed EC-121 Super Constellation Coming Home To Yanks Air Museum

After seven years of restoration, carried out by technicians from the Yanks Air Museum, a Lockheed EC-121T Warning Star (military version of the Super Constellation) has been put in flight from Camarillo to Chino, California (USA), where the museum is known for being the Mecca of warbirds in the United States.

This aircraft had Top-Secret capabilities and monitored the skies for hostile aircraft for over 44 years during the height of the Cold War often flying missions 24 hours a day. It served over the Pacific as well as Taiwan, South Korea and Iceland during the Cuban Missile Crisis. You need only to take a look inside to see the massive electronic and technological capabilities of this aircraft.

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[hudson501]

Thanks for including the backgound music at the appropriate time- AFTER the engines stopped turning! Great video of an old Super Connie still being able to flex its wings even as late as 2012.

[ArcticRc]

You are doing an amazing job man. Capturing these moments and editing them so pro. Thank you

[crotchboots]

the prettiest 4 engined aircraft ever built

[dpohunter]

Beautifully shot video, nice non-intrusive music score. If there are no plans to fly this aircraft again, I hope the museum will be willing to allow other Connie operators to "borrow" its increasingly scarce powerplants to keep others flying. Thanks for posting.

[ae7iwkg6gap]

While stationed as a RADAR technician at Rockville AFS, Iceland, I had the honor of flying in one these for my Blue Nose flight. What a cool way it was to go over the Arctic Circle.  I'm still amazed at how smooth the flight was in this awesome old bird.

[j5match]

11,0000th view! cool

[PlaneVideoArt]

@ebrslonggmail Thank you for the information!

[kchmn]

That radial engine sound is the sweetest sound in the world. I wish they would keep her flying, rather than to sit at a display and rot away. I think the Connie was the sleekest prop liner ever. I remember watching them take off at O'hare years ago when you could go out on the balcony and be right at wing level. I was a little kid and thought the flames were a sign that the plane was on fire. Kind of freaked me out, LOL.

[ebrslonggmail]

@stephenopoly I verified in the C-121 technical orders yesterday that the flap slamming shut was in fact the door over the right wing life raft compartment.

[PlaneVideoArt]

@ebrslonggmail Thank you sir, I stand corrected.

[PlaneVideoArt]

@ebrslonggmail Thank you for your answer.