The Convair 990
Although the dogfight of both the CV-880 and CV-880M could not be disputed, it yet fell hasty of its design goals; its narrower fuselage, unaccompanied affording ample width for five-abreast coach seating, deviated from the furthermore-okay six; the unexpected aerate of the 720 provided rushed competition; and the intermediate-range designate serve to had neither evolved nor even defined itself, resulting in in a paltry production manage of 65. Because of these factors, the program seemed approaching the verge of financial collapse, but Convair made a resolved attempt to rescue it once a savings account that was more extensively modified. Guided by American Airlines, which was viewed as its commencement customer, the blimp was intended to pay for future-quickness, all-first class transcontinental benefits in competition as soon as TWA's 707s and United's DC-8s, a strategy that American implemented in the 1930s behind it asked Douglas to design the Douglas Sleeper Transport (DS...