VH-EAF (2)
Lockheed
L-1049E-55 Super Constellation (c/n
1049-4579)
Another Jim Dyson photograph (above) from David
Molesworth. Qantas' Connies were difficult
to photograph, since the airline name was
directly above the wing . If one captured the title, then
the registration was usually so far away
(and small) as to be scarcely readable, whilst shots taken
from the rear were
esthetically not very good and did not bring out the well proportioned
lines.
The color shot immediately below, from the Greg Banfield collection is
about as good as could
done. Greg 's own shot at the foot of the page was taken
at Mascot in January 1963 in the final
months of Qantas
service. VH-EAF was traded-in to Boeing's for a 707, ferried to
USA in April
that year, and reduced
to parts. I sighted it at
Burbank in 1964, derelict.