{"id":112664,"date":"2024-08-22T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ww2-us-military-lockheed-super-constellation-design\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T05:00:11","slug":"impressive-dimensions-the-ww2-us-military-lockheed-super-constellations-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=112664","title":{"rendered":"Impressive Dimensions: The WW2 US Military Lockheed Super Constellation&#8217;s Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/lockheed-constellation\/\">Lockheed Constellation<\/a> (aka &#8220;Connie&#8221;) is regarded as the first civil airliner family of aircraft to enter widespread use equipped with a pressurized cabin. It found extensive use in both military and civilian use during and after World War II (as the Super Constellation). The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/lockheed-constellation\/\">Constellation is sometimes regarded as an aircraft that changed the world<\/a>. Previous <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-314-yankee-clipper-first-transatlantic-flight-story\/\">aircraft like Pan Am&#8217;s Boeing Clipper 314s were unpressurized<\/a>, while the old Zeppelins were infamously frightfully cold with passengers having to warm up (even though they were luxurious).    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Super Constellation was one of the world&#8217;s first pressurized airliners and the first Air Force One aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,3145,408,3061,412,4833],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-constellation","category-history","category-lockheed-constellation","category-military","category-super-constellation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112665,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112664\/revisions\/112665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}