http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2011/03/howard_hughes_plane.php

Connie as it was called in the IAF circuit (The aeroplane in question in the video above) flew well with Air India, Srilanka. A legendary aircraft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Constellation) it was.

Homi Baba was killed in a boeing 707 accident read on the same site in mont blanc france as a connie crash. connie served in this sub continent well, it was retired earlier than scheduled to make way for the jets.

image a RC connie, will look great, isn't

Ur right Augustine...a vintage airliner is always classy and an eye catcher at the field!!!

On the subject of "Connie" oldtimers may remember that Aurora used to kit a C/L version along with the Dak, Flyingboxcar and the Avro.
The Connie and other kits were orginally kitted by Toki Moki of Japan and these still show up sometimes on fleabay.
Tried getting a Connie but everytime it slipped out of my reach.

Gusty,
There are various Connies and Super Connies in RC form availble as plans or short kits, and many are flying too
 

post this thread, flew one on the sim, very smooth flying.

super connie was there in iaf inventory.

IAF had something called a Fairchild Packet (C 82) looked exactly like C 119 (Your Flying Box car) your FBC derived from there ?

Late eighties did a presentation on Mr AV Roe and company, in a non internet era to get info on this great man was like impossible till i found a good book called 'The great Airmen'. We have HS 748 (Called AVRO) still flying.

fleabay is a good lead, will keep a look out for it.

however not my kinda flying though, a take off without a loop and a barrel at least, is no take off  

Gusty, The Packet and C 119 are more or less same outwardly to the untrained eye, C119 was derived from the Packet. Per my information IAF used both C 82 Packets and C 119 FBC
Yes the FBC is derived from there as I was on look out for one for a long time. When I joined NCC  I found one battered old FBC C/L model made by the first CO of the unit (when my old man was cadet there). Got that down, dusted, repaired and we flew that again. In true packet fashion it did not take off with the 2x 2.5 cc diesels we were using. Had to mount a 1.5 atop the fuse to make it fly.
With me loops and barrels are fine but I like to fly my scale models in a scale fashion.
A year back did manage to land one orginal C/L FBC kit made by Toki Moki. And looking out for the Connie

You might be also pleased to know that Mr. A V Roe (then Master) was the first person to win the first prize at the first recognized aeromodelling competition ever held.
Yeah but today's HS 748 has a changed look where the engine nacelles are much more streamlined with turboprops instead of the orginal piston engines    

Those were the days of barn storming, once in a while i go microlighting to the WWII abandoned Runways, preserved in all its vintage, a lot of them here, this sunday planning to go to one such abandoned Runway with my Spit . hopefully will post some videos (mostly i fly alone, at the most my son, that's why videos are rare to come by)

Missed this post.

Just my two bits. My Dad flew the venerable C-119 Fairchild Packets almost all his life. The Packet and the Connie shared the same engine-the Wright Cyclone, the difference being the Connie Cyclones were with Fuel injectors whereas the Packets were with Carburetors. The Packets also suffered numerous unexplained crashes which were later found to be due to 'Runaway prop'. In one incident the prop actually accelerated, tore off, flew in front of the Packet and then moved across its flight path .   

i remember the barrackpore accident with horde lot of paratroopers, imdtly after take off,

i don't know how many people know, the concept of Flying Box car was to have detachable multiple fuselage for the same airframe, so that loading, unloading doesn't take time. aeroplane lands removes its Box and off it goes with already loaded another box, i  doubt whether it worked out in reality

And gusty there was another at  Agra, just after take off, all paras on board perished

i heard of that too, i lost a man in my stick, in a para accident. there at agra , while doing paratropper's course, the start of some strings of sad days of my life

@verma in the centre mounted engine of packet,  wasn't it ? Bristol Orpheus 70101 , started in air at will for better climb? no? more light needed

Did some research,

We (Indians, HAL) did the modification, some IAF pilots flew the packet only on center mounted Jet engine with both props feathered, was there any other aeroplane which had a propeller and a jet engine ? i doubt, for further heroics of IAF pilots with the packets read (http://gnat50years.in/2008/09), packet with the jet engine, see image

Yes Gusty. Dad was involved with the 'jet paks' as they were called. He had beautiful pictures in colour slides of three jet paks over the Himalayas. They usually started the Orpheus (jet) at line up point after the warm up procedures and engine checks of the Cyclones. Lost many 'Uncles' and saw Dad rush to ATC, Sqn regularly due to emergencies.