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Let's travel back in time and to California: it's summer of 1939 and at a hotel in Los Angeles, billionaire Howard Hughes and Jack Frye, general director of TWA, meetThe three parts were going to lay the foundations of a modern model of a passenger plane that broke everything seen until then.
The requirements of the buyers were three: speed, range and comfort.What the manufacturer offered amply complied with the request and also guaranteed three others: beauty, design and originality.What was born at that meeting was the germ of one of the most elegant planes in history: the Constellation.World War II delayed the project and the first plane did not fly until the end of 1946, demonstrating, unfortunately, that although it was a very elegant and novel aircraftin its image, including triple drift, the creators of the device fell short in as for its technical characteristics, so a model of higher performance with new motorization was developedThese, already improved, had great success in the world of commercial aviation and even as presidential transport in the US, premiered by Dwight D. Eisenhower.
From 1950, Lockheed produced a newly improved model, which he renamed L-1049 "Super Constellation", capable of reaching 590 km / h.Although Iberia was a loyal and experienced customer of Douglas aircraft at the time, (the DC-4 was its long-range aircraft with which it opened its first intercontinental route in1946) the delay of the DC-7 project made the board of directors I decided on the 'Super' in 1953, initially buying three units, which I would call as the caravelsAs Lockheed built the device in Burbank, in what is now Bob Hope Airport, he offered the Spanish airline that some Hollywood female celebrity was the godmother of thefirst plane, as that would give certain brightness and publicity to the company beyond the very fact of the delivery of an aircraft.The board of directors of the company saw - officially - how very frivolous that someone 'from the cinema' was related to an official act of the company (wemust not forget what was so manned by then of 'Spain, spiritual reserve of the West') and finally for the baptism of the first Spanish Super Constellation, the wife ofthe Spanish ambassador to the United States was elected in a very serious and solemn (read bland) ceremony blessed by Cardinal Spellman at the New York airport of Idlewild (nowAs indicated by the person who has uploaded it to the network, the images are very curious to be more frequent to see the Iberia Super Constellation in photosAt the same time the voice of the announcer is of such rancidity, that it costs not to hate him a little more after each sentence.Attentive, however, at 4:05 minutes, when the No-Do journalist grows and releases one of the most courteous phrases I've ever heard.The recipient of the words was the Queen of Jordan * while boarding the plane.Yes, I know that you used to speak “more like that” but still this flowery language is still going down.The first commercial flight of this aircraft with the Spanish company was made on August 3, 1954, premiering, neither more nor less than the Madrid-New York route, which also madeThe cabin was configured for 19 first class passengers and 60 in tourist.Until 1962, more devices of this model were incorporated into the fleet, reaching ten units, with which in addition to New York, they flew to Caracas, Havana, San JuanThe arrival of the first DC-8 series -52 to Iberia, which were the first reactors of the company, also premiered in New York, relegated the 'Super' to other routes inLatin America and even to exclusively freighter or national lines, withdrawing definitely in 1966 and thus ending the Spanish stage of which was considered by many pilots "the best trimotor