Lockheed "Super Constellation " L-1449

[McColm]

Hi Guys,
I managed to get hold of a copy of "Flight and Aircraft Engineer " 14 January 1955. On page 39 there is an interesting article on the Lockheed L-1449 which is an extensively redesign of the Super Constellation /L-1649 Starliner. The L-1449 is expected to fly 70mph more than the Douglas DC-7C and 30mph more than the Douglas DC-7D.
Power plants to include : four Pratt & Whitney  PT2 turboprops of 6,000 e.s.h.p., Rolls Royce R.B.109/Tynes,  Pratt & Whitney T52s, Allison T56s or Bristol B.E.25s as alternatives. Cruising speed should be 420mph at 30,000ft.
  An impressive wing that's 27ft more span than the Starliner.
Unfortunately the L-1449 was never built.
Meanwhile a paper study was undertaken of a thin-wing version of the Douglas DC-7D with Tynes/R.B.109s.

I have ruined a few 1/72 Heller and Airfix Lockheed Constellation kits in process of " the thin-wing" or shoulder wing. However I did manage to graft the wings from a Lockheed P-3 Orion to the wings of a Heller Constellation before someone stepped on it. Two alternative wings that do work are the C-130 and the Avro Shackleton Mk3.
  As discussed I don't have a 1/72 DC-7D, the closest I've got in the stash is a DC-6B.
Prices of the Revell Br1150 Atlantic are on the increase,  although the C-160 are around the £25 price range.
(Got both in the stash).'

[Captain Canada]

There was just a great video posted of a Super Connie low flyby

[jcf]

Out of curiosity, why not put this in one of the existing Connie threads? Especially seeing
as you started the second one.

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,15093.0.html

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,34417.0.html

[McColm]

Didn't want to confuse the two different designs for the Starliner.
As far as my research into the L-1449 there is just a line drawing. The wing resembles a stretch version of the Electra/P-3 Orion in the layout.

[McColm]

The B-29 wings also work,  as I used the Revell Br1150 Atlantic RR Tynes on a C-97 and the Revell Lockheed P-3C Orion engines on another C-97.
I do have two Academy 1/72 KC-97 tankers in my stash and a 1/72 P-3C Orion.
To save cutting two Revell C-160 kits might be better as the engines come separately before assembly.