The Convair 990
Although the exploit of both the CV-880 and CV-880M could not be disputed, it yet fell curt of its design goals; its narrower fuselage, single-handedly affording ample width for five-abreast coach seating, deviated from the then-occurring to all right six; the rapid appearance of the 720 provided sudden competition; and the intermediate-range say had neither evolved nor even defined itself, resulting in in a paltry production manage of 65. Because of these factors, the program seemed regarding the verge of financial collapse, but Convair made a unmodified attempt to rescue it subsequent to a tab that was more extensively modified. Guided by American Airlines, which was viewed as its launch customer, the dirigible was meant to present behind-vigor, all-first class transcontinental further in competition subsequently TWA's 707s and United's DC-8s, a strategy that American implemented in the 1930s with it asked Douglas to design the Douglas Sleeper Transport (DST), or night metap...