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This Day in Aviation History

February 6, 1946

A TWA Lockheed Constellation lands at Orly airport, Paris, from LaGuardia, New York, to complete the airline’s first scheduled international flight.

The Lockheed Constellation was a four-engine propeller-driven aircraft built by Lockheed between 1943 and 1958 in its Burbank, California, USA, facility. In four model variations, 856 aircraft were produced. It was used as both a civilian airliner and U.S. military air transport plane, seeing service in the Berlin Airlift and as the presidential aircraft for President Eisenhower.

Recent Articles about General Chuck Yeager

Appeal-Democrat, November 29, 2010

At a dedication ceremony Monday for renaming 5 miles of what was Smartville Road for him, the famed fighter and test aviator said the changes as the result of a $3.6 million project are dramatic. “I drove it this morning and it’s really a fabulous road now,” said Yeager, a Grass Valley resident famous for being the first to break the speed of sound, in 1947. Read more.

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