The Connie lit my fire too…back in 1956 heading to Saudi Arabia as a five year-old. Flew on TWA, PanAm, Lufthansa, and Air France Connies. I have a scale wooden model of N6937C, which I have now dubbed the “Johnny Connie”, in TWA livery, that I bought in PHNL airport back in the late '90s on my hutch. I was saddened to learn in this article that it was never in TWA livery until TWA ceased to operate.