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Super Constellation interior
Lockheed L-1011 TriStar in front of National Airline History Museum, under restoration
Super Constellation flight engineer’s station
Dropped cowling on Super Constellation, showing Wright R3350 engine
the navigator’s desk and sextant port and the Super Constellation’s compact forward cockpit. The mighty Wright R-3350 turbo-compound engines were a marvel of reciprocating power; a cutaway training engine shows the power-recovery turbines and massive cylinders, once capable of generating 3,400 hp when 115/145 octane gasoline was available.
Proudly standing against one wall is a futuristic 35-foot TWA Moonliner rocket that once graced TWA’s downtown Kansas City headquarters building, similar to a larger rocket used in a late-1950’s Disneyland exhibit that pointed the way to popular space travel in the park’s Tomorrowland. And tucked under the Constellation is a tiny 1930 American Eaglet, a two-seat “flivver” built in Kansas City for Depression- era flying.
Jet Age Queen
The NAHM’s most recent acquisition is the Lockheed L-1011-100, parked
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