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  • Lockheed Martin Lockheed built many versions of the Constellation over 16 years, of which the Starliner was the last – and most complex.

    Back in the Air 2008

  • Work is starting now on the Lockheed 1649A Super Constellation "Starliner," which Mr. Rohwer's bosses bought at a bankruptcy auction in Maine last December.

    Lufthansa's Labor of Love: 2008

  • Lockheed Martin Lockheed's 1649A Super Constellation "Starliner," left, was the last hurrah for propeller airplanes before commercial jet travel took off.

    Back in the Air 2008

  • "The Starliner was the sporty fastback version of the flagship Galaxie line of full-sized Fords.

    unknown title 2009

  • In the worst-case scenario, you could find yourself the sole remaining resident of your luxury block of flats who hasn't been turned by parasites into a sex-crazed zombie, which is what happens to the occupants of the Starliner complex in David Cronenberg's Shivers.

    Why aren't more slasher movies set in blocks of flats? Anne Billson 2010

  • Directed by WALL-E lead animator Angus MacLane, the seven and a half minute short film tells the story of the unfortunate little welder droid who is trying to install a replacement lamp and find a way back inside the Axiom Starliner (if you saw WALL-E then you saw how he got locked out).

    First Look: Pixar’s BURN-E | /Film 2008

  • Humans have left the planet in the Axiom Starliner, a massive sophisticated star cruise ship created by the fictional corporation BuyNLarge, to wait for Earth to become clean enough to sustain life.

    WALL*E Review | Fused Film 2008

  • Starliner by David Drake: Carrying six thousand lives in its hull, the Empress of Earth is the finest liner in the galaxy, a link in the starflung chain of 23rd century civilization -- and an unarmed pawn in an interstellar war.

    3 New Books in Baen's Free Library 2008

  • I think I made the point that they seem like the tenants we see driving out of the Starliner highrise at the end of SHIVERS, parasite-driven erotophiles rather than real human beings.

    Archive 2008-12-07 2008

  • I think I made the point that they seem like the tenants we see driving out of the Starliner highrise at the end of SHIVERS, parasite-driven erotophiles rather than real human beings.

    Revisiting CRASH 2008

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