Editing Lockheed Constellation (section)

===Records===
Sleek and powerful, Constellations set many records. On April 17, 1944, the second production C-69, piloted by Howard Hughes and TWA president [[Jack Frye]], flew from [[Burbank, California]], to [[Washington, D.C.]], a distance of approximately {{convert|2300|mi}}, in 6 hours and 57 minutes, representing an average speed of {{convert|331|mph}}. On the return trip, the aircraft stopped at [[Wilbur Wright Field|Wright Field]] in Ohio to give [[Orville Wright]] his last flight, more than 40 years after his historic first flight near [[Kitty Hawk, North Carolina]]. He commented that the Constellation's wingspan was longer than the distance of his first flight.<ref name=yenne />

On September 29, 1957, a TWA [[Lockheed L-1649A Starliner|L-1649A]] flew from Los Angeles to London in 18 hours and 32 minutes—about {{convert|5420|mi}} at {{convert|292|mph}}.<ref name=Buck>{{cite magazine |last=Buck |first=Bob |date=10 September 2014 |title=From The Archives: Bob Buck Flies A Connie From LA To London |url=http://airfactsjournal.com/2014/09/archives-bob-buck-flies-connie-la-london/ |magazine=Air Facts Journal |location=Cincinnati, Ohio |publisher=Original publisher: Leighton Collins; relaunch: Sporty’s Pilot Shop |access-date=31 March 2021 |quote='Editor’s Note: Bob Buck was one of Air Facts’ most popular writers in the 1950s and 60s, beloved for his first-hand accounts of the changing airline world… In our latest trip through the Air Facts archives, we fly from Los Angeles to London via the polar route, as told from the left seat of a Connie.'}}</ref> The L-1649A holds the record for the longest-duration, nonstop passenger flight aboard a piston-powered airliner. On TWA's first London-to-San Francisco flight on October 1–2, 1957, the aircraft stayed aloft for 23 hours and 19 minutes (about {{convert|5350|mi}} at {{convert|229|mph}}).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://theavgeeks.com/2019/09/16/the-cadillac-of-the-constellation-line/ |title=Longer Range, New Routes |date=16 September 2019 |access-date=2020-07-26 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Longer Range, New Routes. Retrieved July 26, 2020.</ref>