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New Power for Flight. The T-56 gas turbine engine.
Development of the T-56 gas turbine engine.
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Lockheed Electra First Flight (no audio)
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First flight of the Lockheed L188 Electra conducted by legendary test pilot Herman 'Fish' Salmon. When put to the test it handled like a fighter rather than a large passenger transport. Registration N1881, 16th December 1957.
Lockheed Electra Propulsion Story
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Developing the Alison 501-D13 for the Lockheed Electra. The Alison 501-D13 is a single shaft gas turbine with a 14 stage axial flow compressor driven by a four stage turbine. It was originally developed by the Alison Engine Company for the Lockheed C-130 transport (designated T56) entering production in 1954. With an unusually long production run, over 18,000 engines have been produced since 19...
Lockheed Electra Newsreel
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Lockheed L-188 Electra Newsreel; a promotional film.
Lockheed Electra, Pattern for Profit
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Lockheed L-188 Electra promotional film (1959)
My grandfather swore by this engine....he said it never let him down an was on time every Time...👍👍 grandfather was part of S.A.C /jet air mechanic/load Master 21 year's 👍🏼👍🏼
Once its bugs were fixed the Electra (and its military version the Orion) were great aircraft, durable too. Two fatal Electra crashes early on sadly put a premature end to the type's airline career. I disagree with claims that, in flight, you almost had to shout if chatting with someone in the seat next to you. In 1970-71, I made three of the 4+ -hour hops aboard Air New Zealand Electra Mk IV's between NZ and Australia. Prop noise & vibration yes, but no effort conversing. Takeoff was surreal; rumble of 4 big Allison turboshafts seemed to quieten slightly as the ship accelerated down the runway. Apparently she had constant-speed props, pilot poured on the fuel and those huge airscrews altered pitch for maximum thrust. In that long-ago era of cockpit visits, the Electra's flight deck was a sea of 'steam gauges' (analogue instruments) with more at the flight engineer's panel. All in all an unforgettable experience. And I still have my Air NZ Junior Jet Club logbook somewhere to prove it. 😄
Very interesting.
2023: I have flown Electras with American Airlines when I was a kid. My father worked for American. I loved that plane and that Sound! Thanks and Best Regards
Mom's favorite plane. Connie too.She flew with Eastern Air Lines
The T56 lives to this day as the T56-427 in the E-2D. Hawkeye new builds
Was hoping to see a Connie in this.Super G
The flying public shunned this airplane after a few well-publicized accidents. Many ended up being peddled by the airlines to South American carriers or underwent a cargo conversion at Lockheed Aircraft Service Co., which held the STC for the cargo conversion.
Connie with Turbo-props. A match made in Heaven.
NOTHING like the sound of four T56’s on the wing of a P3 or C130 making a low pass!
2:56-3:30 - Rohr Aircraft is today part of Collins Aerospace, a unit of Raytheon Technologies Corporation.
One crashed at Buffalo, Tx.
Eastern Airlines really inaugurated the Electra!!
Yes, indeed as Eastern initiated the first revenue, Lockheed L-188 Electra, service on January 12, 1959. Just a few days before American Airlines began their Electra service.
Allison Engine's name is spelled with two l's, after its founder, James Allison. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Engine_Company
About 40 years ago my mom called me up and said be at LB airport at exec terminal at 7pm, a plane will pick you up, were doing Thanksgiving at Lake Havasu. I was expecting a Bonanza or 310 to show up. Instead this monstrous 4 enginged beast shows up, that said McCullough International. The terminal person escorted me out past two giant engines and like 12 foot props still running, then in front of the nose, where magically there was a staircase already set up, and only the inboard prop was just spinning down. I boarded, was shown my seat in this huge plane with about 10 other passengers, told to buckle up and less than a minute later we were rolling again. The terminal was close to the runway. We taxied out the 150 yards in about another minute, made a 180 turn and accelerated like it was a Corvette, complete with big roar of the engines. I looked out the window and the ground fell away insanely quick Another 10 seconds and went through some low coastal scud and broke out over the top and the top was all moonlit and kind of slow boiling. Less than an hour later we arrived in Lake Havasu, They held up the corporation dinner til us passengers arrived. The interior of the plane was more plush than plastic with large windows with curtains over them. It smelled slightly musty in there. Liked they should let it sit out in the desert son for a day with the doors open and let the inside bake . I apparently was the last passenger collected and first to be let off on the return trip a few days later. Found out later it was a Super Electra. It was kinda surreal. No standing in line, no checking in. Just go to this small terminal, wait 3 minutes, and get on this big dervishly whirling magic bus, and be in the air less than 5 mins later. It was definitely a noisier ride than a commercial jet, but loud gravelly hum was kind of hypnotizing. About an hour of that would be all I could tolerate
Here in Brazil, Varig operated this wonderful aircraft for 30 years. No accidents occurred during this period.
Flew Convair VC 131H with the Navy (CV 580) she jumped in the air, V2 climbs she hung on the props and climbed like a raped ape. Loved that T56 with the Aero Products 13'6" props. A bit noisy but engine out performance still had a lot of safety factor compared to the 2800 recip.
The jet took them over
I loved flying in the P-3c baseline! IFT VP-40 & 65
Update II IFT here (VP-44) and loved every minute of it.
What engine is best? for todays planes???
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The Lockheed Constellation with four T-56s is absolutely beautiful.
Cleaner lines and bigger. Halfway surprised they didn't scrap the Electra and refine that.
@@fawnlliebowitz1772 >>> I have wondered the same thing.
My Fatherś Favorite Lockheed, No Wonder He was a Electrcian scholar in Amsterdam born November 25-1921
Super Constaletion, When Flying was Fun& Divng Save
Look Ma, no wings!
A great aircraft.
I flew on an Electra once, in the 1970s. Nowadays, the Bombardier Q400 is the turboprop of choice wher I fly.
Such confidence before Buffalo TX and Tell City Ind. Why wasn't there a similar confident film for version II?
There wasn't a film to restore confidence in the Lockheed Electra, but there was a huge public relations campaign put on by Lockheed and the airlines to restore that confidence in the Electra. To quote from the book, "Lockheed 188 Electra," by David G. Powers, "in the wake of five crashes, Lockheed and airlines managers did not sit idly by and hope the tragedies would fade from memory. On the contrary, they started an aggressive campaign to sooth the flying public's fear of the airliner. Leading the campaign was American Airlines. With the cooperation of the other Electra operators, AA managers initiated what were known as "fact teams" or "truth squads." Beginning in 1960, even prior to LEAP (Lockheed Electra Action Program), these pilots, engineers, and public relations staffers traveled from city to city giving briefings to civic leaders and politicians. Rather than hide the truth, the teams openly explained whirl mode and flutter, the investigation and the re-engineering effort. American also conducted a series of inexpensive excursion flights." (I had a friend who flew on one of these flights back in the early 1960s out of Chicago's O'Hare Field. It was about 30 minutes long).
still work on them, -13 and D22. on wing turbine and RGB changes. they are swinging Aeroproducts and HAM standard. D13 TIT 971 4kHP, D22G 1049 4300HP
I would fly to Chicago as a young child once a year or so for a few years in a row with my television engineer father going to see the trade demonstrations of RCA studio television cameras and equipment. Each time both coming and going on a few different Convair 240 types. Sometimes it would be in a radial engine and sometimes on the way back it would be in a newly converted turboprop version. Years later I saw one after it had crashed at the local airport, it was broken and split in the fuselage, don't know that it might have been one I once flew in. My first airliner flights, an autumn delight.
Lockheed = awesome
Pay attention boys - there will be a pop quiz after the film ! Quit screwing around -
GM / Allison. Still the finest !
ladies and gentlemen, if a wing breaks off..say goodby, see ya
14 Electras flew in Brazil, operating a shuttle service between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 400 km apart, from 1963 till january, 6th, 1992. Each one flew 54.000 hours, and 54.000 cicles. No one wa s e ver involved in an accident. Approximately 40.000.000 passengers were transported during operation.
Truly amazing technology for its time. I love to watch the mighty Lockheed Electra water bombers fly around my area.
19:20 The test monoitoring crew are all wearing parachutes! (Or is it only oxygen gear?)
I started working for Allison‘s in 1994 As an inspector FPI MPI inspect about every part of the T56 engine and gearbox The good old days they outsource most of the work now I make single crystal turbine blades:-)
"Holiday Airlines" flew Lockheed Electras in the 1960's, and early 70's when I was a kid. PSA also flew them too. I used to see them come in to LAX, and hear the "WOOSH" when they reversed the pitch on the props to slow down. I miss those days when most of the noise from LAX was the sound of droning propellers, and the backing from planes on real steep approaches with piston engines. At night l could see flames flashing when they were backfiring.(Of course they reversed the pitch once they landed 🙂) I lived less than 1 mile east of runway 25 left, I lived in lnglewood, 1 block from Lennox high school at the time. I had a multi band radio that I could listen to the aircraft communications. I loved it. I still listen to aircraft communications.
It's interesting the 501s are shown with both three and four-bladed props.
The C-130 at 17:48 has three-bladed props. I only ever recall seeing those with four blades!?
Early models, up to and including C130 E; later came the fat paddle 4 bladers
Fantastic video. Thank you for sharing this "gem"!
Unfortunately in airline service the Electra's fatal Achilles heel showed up.
My guess is that this video was made before the wings started falling off.
The narrator changes at 4:45. Sounds to me just like Ronald Reagan.
Rohr Aircraft is now Goodrich / UTC and they make engine nacelles.
Beautiful plane- but why’d they make instead of a jet?
Super Connies and Electras...Lockheed's best days.
Thanks for this video. Outstanding.
Too bad the Connie and turboprops together didn't fare better, that could have been an amazing airliner!
I didn't know how to reply to your text to me so I'm doing it here. Thanks for your info. i think the Conny had the most gracefull shape of any plane around.