VT 860 Convair B-58 Hustler, F2Y Sea Dart, F-86, General Atomics, Convair 880
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
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Convair jets were all beautiful!
Nice work.
for me, I rode from Charleston to Azores, then Tripoli, Libya, and then PAA DC7 to Istanbul, Esenboya airport, then a step for lunch at Golcuk, then Karamursel AB for 2 years. Left via C-119 to Izmir for customs, and on to Athens, next day a C-130 to Evreax in France, then car to Wiesbaden.
Fantastic .Beautiful.
Feels like watching Fallout in-game movies
I had the pleasure of flying in a TWA CV-880 from Columbus OH to Chicago IL in 1970. The Convair jets were smaller than the Boeing 707 or Douglas DC-8 and had 2-2 seating in first class and 2-3 in coach. Pilots seemed to like them because they were a bit overpowered and fast but the airlines had trouble making money with them. Seat mile costs were too high even when fuel was cheap. The Arab embargo really killed them off and I don’t think Convair ever saw a profit on the 880 or 990. They were comfortable but rather noisy if you were behind the wing.
Personally, my favorite among the B707 contemporaries was the DC8. Douglas hit the nail on the head with that one. Too bad they were so far behind Boeing.
Great footage of the Convair 880 in Alaska Airlines colors.
I once worked for a guy who said he was a former Hustler driver. He was too busy taking pot shots at the USAF for his involuntary separation (RIF) to talk about flying that rocket ship. He was an arrogant, condescending jerk-off. I have no doubt why he was RIFfed out. He'd spent virtually all of his career as a Major. At his age, that was telling. A dead-ender.
I had a older friend who flew on a Hustler.
at least it wasn't your goddamned (grand)father
No audio for half of the video
Commercials on the San Diego Museum channel? Really?
Almost sounds like Monte Markham narrating.
More like 1960
The delta wing was pioneered by the English first... like most things to do with aviation in those days
Good at ideas for advanced aircraft but unable to advance most of them to the development cycle. Two of the ones that did get into service were the English Electric Lightening and the deHaverland Comet. The first Comets killed scores of passengers and crews until they figured out that rectangular windows were adding to metal fatigue during pressurization/depressurization cycles. Once they figured that one out, the B707 had beaten them to market. The Lightening, an RAF interceptor, had legs shorter than my wife's pet Chihuahua, this weren't long for the market. There were many other designs with promise, but few if any ever got to the prototype stage. The Brits did, however, retain their very pragmatic attitude about the whole thing. Basically, WW2 put them in the poor house.
You misspelled it wrong. It's spelled g-e-r-m-a-n.
He misspelled it right. He spelled it wrong.