Lockheed "Super Constellation"

A Lockheed "Super Constellation" aircraft of a Dutch airline rolls over the airfield in Hamburg-Fuhlsbuttel in 1953. Front left a Junkers junior from the year 1930, which has already completed several flights around the world. The pictured "Super Constellation", the largest civilian aircraft in the world at that time, has been flying the North Atlantic routes between Europe and the USA since 15.8.1953. It can carry up to 99 passengers with eleven-man crew and cover more than 6,000 kilometers in non-stop flight. Deutsche Lufthansa opened its intercontinental scheduled air traffic with a Lockheed "Super Constellation" on June 8, 1955. | usage worldwide