From Berlin to Apollo: The C-121 Bataan
Long before it carried NASA communications equipment over the Atlantic or transported presidents and generals across the Pacific, the Lockheed C-121A (serial 48-0613) began life as part of a new generation of air travel. The Lockheed Constellation emerged from a 1939 request by Transcontinental and Western Airlines for a fast, long-range transcontinental airliner, with Howard […]