Lockheed EC-121 Constellation (N422NA)

Memories; crossed the Pacific several times as a passenger in one of these. Travis to Hickman to Midway to Tachikawa. Also the other direction. Always liked landing at Midway. It was very entertaining to watch the Goonie birds on Midway. The birds were beautiful in flight but the take-off and landings by the Goonie birds would keep you laughing. The birds would be on their nest near a building and if it decided it wanted to go fly, it would stand up and walk on the side walk out to the aircraft ramp. When on the ramp it would start running and flapping it's wings for a pretty long run and finally it would get airborne. It didn't seem to be able to just leap into flight like most birds. When they decided to land, it was always a crash landing tumbling to a stop. Once saw one fly into the side of a building while trying to land. It never seemed to hurt them. They are very large birds and you could walk right up to them and stand beside them but you should never try to touch one of them, you might get bitten. Those birds made Midway my favorite stop for aircraft servicing.

Oh, my flights were on a C-121 not the EC-121.

Great pic Ryan.....

Wish the Connie gave us just one pass after take-off.

Great Shot Ryan!