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Well to take you on your interpetation of doing it similar to the dakota operation. Is that on the same bases to book seats on the airplane? because from my info that could never happen because this aircraft was never intended for commerical flight. It was a cargo plane, so no seat locks and such...Key wrote:OK, here is info from a reliable source with KLM
That has never been seen as an option. That's because it was to fly with an experimental CofA from the FAA.Key wrote:Don't know about plans to fly with pax.
Op internet staan enkele geruchten dat de Connie niet zou gaan vliegen, maar, zoals
u zich kunt voorstellen, vergt het vliegen met de Constellation de nodige
voorbereidingen en dienen we met alle betrokkenen goede afspraken te maken. In dat
proces zitten we nu.
It is the kind of update you'll get by email if you paid one hundred Euros or more during last year's "VIP project"...aviodromefriend wrote:What kind of update?
To be honest: I don't see much news here about this decision, else from what can be read at scramble and airliners.net. Maybe his source just has read these topics?Stratofreighter wrote: See http://www.conniesurvivors.com/1-connie_news.htm#MAY22" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; .
Not so... Ralph has contacts you and I do not have...aviodromefriend wrote:To be honest: I don't see much news here about this decision, else from what can be read at scramble and airliners.net. Maybe his source just has read these topics?Stratofreighter wrote: See http://www.conniesurvivors.com/1-connie_news.htm#MAY22" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; .
And just above it:the decision to not fly the Connie was made by the HAH board of directors alone and that KLM was in no way involved.
This means KLM did not tell HAH to pull the plug on the Connie, although they could have.This has the full support of the major stakeholders/sponsors including Schiphol Airport and KLM.
De Lockheed L-749 Constellation, zal dit jaar in tegenstelling tot eerdere plannen mogelijk niet meer vliegen. Volgens woordvoerder Peter van de Noort van het luchtvaart-themapark zijn op dit moment de financiële risico’s te groot om met het viermotorige verkeersvliegtuig de lucht in te gaan.
Van de Noort sluit niet uit dat als er een geldschieter wordt gevonden het vliegtuig alsnog weer gaat vliegen. Zolang dat niet het geval is blijft de 'Connie' aan de grond.
Short translation: The financial risks of operating Constellation N749NL in this current economic "credit crunch" climate have now been deemed too great, unless a major new sponsor which garantees funding can be found.Om het toestel vliegwaardig te houden worden regelmatig de motoren gestart en taxiruns uitgevoerd op Lelystad Airport.
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