Trans World Airlines Lockheed L-1049G Super G Constellation

I suppose if I had to only retain one vintage postcard, this would be my favorite.  The TWA Super G Constellation was one of the most beautiful airliners, propeller, prop-jet, or jet.  The photograph above shows the Constellation "The United States" with lower Manhattan in the background.  The text on the back of the postcard says that the photograph is from sometime in 1955.  It was sad that in 1960, one of the Constellations collided with a United DC-8 over New York City.  That Constellation crashed on Staten Island.  The DC-8 crashed onto a street in NYC.  Only one passenger, a boy about my age at the time, survived the initial crash but died in a hospital a day or so later.  Everyone else on both aircraft died immediately. 

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