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Lockheed VC-121E 'Columbine III' 'Air force one'
   
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Lockheed VC-121E 'Columbine III' 'Air force one'

In 1 collection by Evangeline
Vintage planes
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Description
Second aircraft in a long series of presidential aircraft

The only Lockheed VC-121E built, served as President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s personal airplane from 1954 until he left office in January 1961. A military version of the famous Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation commercial airliner, it has a fuselage “stretched” 18 feet longer than earlier versions. With more powerful engines, greater fuel capacity and greater speed, these aircraft were popularly known as “Super Connies.”



Eisenhower named this aircraft, his third Constellation, Columbine III, after the official state flower of Colorado in honor of his wife Mamie. An adopted daughter of that state, Mrs. Eisenhower formally christened the Columbine III on Nov. 24, 1954, with a flask of water from Colorado instead of the traditional bottle of champagne. Immediately afterward, Columbine III carried the President, the First Lady and British Field Marshall Viscount “Monty” Montgomery to Augusta, Ga., for a five-day golfing vacation over the Thanksgiving holiday.



The aircraft’s most important mission took place in July 1955, when it flew Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to Geneva, Switzerland, for the first peacetime summit between the leaders of the Western democracies and the Soviet leadership. Columbine III served as the president’s official aircraft for six years, and during this time it was also used by key U.S. government officials and foreign dignitaries for high-priority flights.



After President Eisenhower left office, the U.S. Air Force continued to use Columbine III as a VIP transport. The aircraft was retired from service in April 1966 and flown to the museum for permanent display.

About this asset

This airplane features custom sound effects, rotating propellers, smoke effects and retracteable landing gear.

8.2k triangles with all submeshes combined, 2048x2048 textures with texture sharing thanks to LSM.

Package includes both vehicle and ploppable version

Requires Vehicle effects mod and FlipXZ mod.

It is adviseable to use cubemap replacer mod as well to make the polished aluminum texture look much better..

Why is it a building and not a prop ? because it uses submeshes and props cant have submeshes, and without these submeshes the aircraft would not look nearly as good.

Acknowledgements

Model done by GiometryE, textures done by GiometryE, You are not allowed to reupload or reuse this asset, or parts of this asset without explicit permission from me.

Special thanks to HermanTheGerman who originally gave me his constellation model that i ended up remodeling either way but learned a few things from.


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4 Comments
GhostOfRazgriz 15 Apr, 2019 @ 1:40pm 
Oh sweet! That sounds great! I absolutely love your assets and the theme of the 40s/50s.
Evangeline  [author] 15 Apr, 2019 @ 1:39pm 
A private asset from a different game that i sadly cannot share, but dont despair, i plan on releasing an entire set of airport buildings made by myself that fit the 50's theme.
GhostOfRazgriz 15 Apr, 2019 @ 1:36pm 
Question, what hangar asset do you use in the back? It suits these models perfectly.
Blujitsu 13 Apr, 2019 @ 11:32am 
Cool! It's neat to see the more unique planes being made too.