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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2016 2:29 pm 
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During our tour stop at Auburn in 2015 we had a chance to talk to the people involved with this project. There is still A LOT of work to do and it is still around 5 years out. This will be the best Connie that has ever graced the skies...it will just take time. Unfortunately no photos were allowed inside the hangar but I got these with my phone from the outside.

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Just looking at some of the guts of the parts airplane gives you an idea of the complexity of this rebuild...which is being conducted to 100% airline capability, including pressurization.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2016 2:47 pm 
JimH wrote:
During our tour stop at Auburn in 2015 we had a chance to talk to the people involved with this project. There is still A LOT of work to do and it is still around 5 years out. This will be the best Connie that has ever graced the skies...it will just take time. Just looking at some of the guts of the parts airplane gives you an idea of the complexity of this rebuild...which is being conducted to 100% airline capability, including pressurization.


That is really too bad if we have to wait ANOTHER 5 Years before seeing this beautiful airplane take to the skies. Certainly not the impression I had from things I read over the last couple of years. But in any case this is a magnificent restoration that will be worth waiting for.

Hope that 5 years is an outside estimate with perhaps in the next 2 or 3 at most more likely, but I know you cannot rush this kind of work.


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PostPosted: Sun Apr 17, 2016 6:47 pm 
The "German American Aviation Heritage Foundation:"

http://gaahf.org/


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 9:16 am 
http://www.warbirdsnews.com/warbird-res ... ation.html

http://www.sunjournal.com/news/lewiston ... rn/1920550

http://www.lufthansa-technik.com/super- ... _count%3D2


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PostPosted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 8:46 am 
And Part 2 of the "Warbirds News" narrative on the on-going work on the Starliner:

http://www.warbirdsnews.com/aircraft-re ... art-2.html


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 12:42 am 
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Great update and read.


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 12:31 pm 
Short, but nice article on the project in the latest issue of "Air & Space Smithsonian" magazine:

http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-f ... 180960064/

IF the prediction in the article works out, the Starliner may perhaps fly before the end of 2017 and hopefully be available for paying passengers and to be seen at air shows in 2018.....

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PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2017 9:39 pm 
http://superstar.lufthansa.com/en/a-new-super-star.html


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http://superstar.lufthansa.com/en/home. ... ea333c7820


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The level of commitment to this project is unprecedented.
She is going to be magnificent.
I have to go for a flight!

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 10:48 pm 
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A friend of mine, Bill Bosworth, scratch built a Lufthansa 1649 in 1/48 scale. It is a thing of beauty!

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Well this certainly is not good news regarding this project www.conniesurvivors.com/1-connie_news.htm#AUG27

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 10:18 pm 
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Looks like my estimate of 5 years was a tad off. $300m...when we we there numbers were being thrown around which spelled doom...but no where near $300m.

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Based on what I've seen/read, they built a substantially new Connie, which had to cost an insane amount of money. Why they didn't do more of an IRAN on a much lower budget, I'll never know. I cannot imagine that any bottom line conscious company could spend >$100M on a vanity project like this, no matter how interesting it is to aviation enthusiasts.


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