Lockheed 8D Altair (Sirius Special) in Lady Southern Cross livery for the first West to East - Australia to USA Pacific crossing, also taking off at dawn from Duxford:
Lockheed 9 Orion in Varney Speed lines livery, taking off at dawn in formation with G-AKiF, from Duxford:
Lockheed 10 Electra in fake Air France livery, from the Casablanca unforgetable movie, ready to take passengers into safety, at dawn:
The model was so poorly made using cardboard & paper, that it was decided to take this scenes with lots of smoke to represent an extremely misty morning:
Lockheed Constellation in Air Françe livery. My flight from Paris to México city in 1956, was in a Super Constellation of Air Françe. We stopped to refuel at the Azores islands, at Boston & at Houston. I was under the care of the most sexy & kind stewardeses when 13 years old
Last, an unknown (to me) the Howard 500. While the Howard 500 bore a strong resemblance to Lockheed Lodestars and Lockheed Venturas , it was a substantially new design, and all 500s had completely new fuselages. The only major components taken directly from its Lockheed forebears were the outer wing panels (from surplus Venturas) and undercarriage (from Harpoons), here in mid flight from Madrid to Bilbao:
