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Although two prototypes of the Lockheed 89 Constitution were built for the US Navy, under the designation XR60-1, no production examples of this large transport aircraft resulted because development of the 4101kW Wright Typhoon turboprop engines intended to power production aircraft was abandoned. As it was, the Constitutions were flown with engines of only 2610kW for test purposes. As
military transports, the 57.63m span Constitutions would have carried a crew of 12 and 168 service personnel on two decks.
| Donald Johnson, dsjohn1(@)cal.net, 21.03.2008 If still timely, you should contact my father by us mail. He was part of the VR4 detachment sent to Burbank in April 1948 to prepare for Navy acceptance in July. He remained with the project until late 1948. He has some photos and anecdotes that might be of interest to Steve.
Donald K. Johnson ATCM USN Ret.
PO Box 595
Esparto, CA 95627 | | Frank Powers, fjapjr(@)gwi.net, 26.08.2007 Hi if anyone has any orginal pictures and material on the R60-1 Constitution please send this material to Steve Ginter1754 Warfied Cir. Simi Valley CA 93063. Steve is puting material I have collected over the years into a book to be publish latter this year. All help would be greatly appreciated. |
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