Convair 880
The Convair 880 is an American narrow-body jet airliner produced by the Convair division of General Dynamics. It was designed to compete with the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 by being smaller but faster, a niche that failed to create demand. When it was first introduced, some aviation circles claimed that at , it was the fastest jet transport in the world. Only 65 Convair 880s 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 880 project a failure. The Convair 990 was a stretched and faster variant of the 880.
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Convair 880
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narrow-body
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jet airliner
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Convair
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Boeing 707
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Douglas DC-8
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Convair 880
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1962-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1962
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Convair 990
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Convair 880
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Convair
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Convair
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General Dynamics
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