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The Convair 880 was a jet airliner produced by the Convair division of General Dynamics. The Convair 880 was designed to compete with the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 by being smaller and faster, a niche that failed to create demand. Only 65 Convair 880's were produced over the lifetime of the production run from 1959 to 1962, and General Dynamics eventually withdrew from the airliner market after considering the Convair 880 project a failure. A stretched and faster model of the 880 was the Convair 990.
Convair began development of a medium-range commercial jet in April 1956, to compete with Boeing and Douglas. Initially the design was to be called the Skylark but later changed to the Golden Arrow, then Convair 600 and then finally the Convair 880. both numbers referring to its top speed of 600 mph or 880 feet per second . It was powered by General Electric's CJ-805-3 turbojets, a civilian version of the J79 which powered the F-104 Starfighter and F-4 Phantom. After production the FAA mandated additional instrumentation, which Convair added by placing a raceway hump on the top of the fuselage. The final assembly of the Convair 880 and 990 took place at the Convair facilities in San Diego, California. |
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