Download or read book Lockheed Constellation written by Dominique Breffort and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2005-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed just before World War II after special instructions from the American tycoon Howard Hughes, the Lockheed Constellation is celebrated today as one of the finest flying machines ever built. As a civilian aircraft, it has been the first airliner able to cross the Atlantic Ocean non stop, but it also has had a respectable military career, thanks to its brilliant characteristics which allowed it to fulfill missions of electronic warfare and AWACS.