Unbuilt Convair 880/990 Variants

[Boxman]

The San Diego Air & Space Museum has started its own channel on YouTube, featuring over 100 films, including military, manufacturer, and formerly classified footage.

San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives Channel - YouTube

Among the films is this one from Convair, touting a Convair 880 (ex- Convair 600) derivative for a swing-tail ( ) jet transport role for the US Air Force ("Military Jetliner"). Here's a link to the film at YouTube:

Convair/USAF Military 600 - Jet Cargo Transport

*I was unable to find a specific topic for the Convair 880/990, so I hope this is the appropriate place to do so in the forum.

 

[Stargazer]

a Convair 880 (ex- Convair 600) derivative for a swing-tail ( ) jet transport role for the US Air Force ("Military Jetliner")

This was most certainly a contender of the Boeing 735 and Douglas 1920 projects (see attachments), both of which are already discussed elsewhere on the forum (I have included an attachment of each for comparison).

 

[fightingirish]

Some more pictures about the Convair 600 with a swing tail for the USAF at SDASM Archives.
Link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/archives/date-posted/2012/07/16/page44/

 

[Triton]

Model of Convair 990 in USAF markings found on eBay.

Source:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/USAF-CONVAIR-990-JET-/180966488873?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a22717b29

 

[Mark Nankivil]

Good Day All -

From the San Diego Air & Space Museum archives, a wind tunnel model of the Convair Model 880 with a T-tail. I would suspect this would have been a design point that was looked at but obviously not proceeded with.

Enjoy the Day! Mark

 

[Triton]

Nice find, Mark. Thank you for sharing.

 

[Mark Nankivil]

Good Day All -

From the SDASM Archives - what appears to be some variation of the 880 for cargo-transport.

Enjoy the Day! Mark

 

[kaiserbill]

Did Convair ever propose other variants of its 880 and 990 aircraft for military use, apart from the above?
Things like tanker, electronic warfare, or maritime patrol variants?

 

[fightingirish]

Did Convair ever propose other variants of its 880 and 990 aircraft for military use, apart from the above?
Things like tanker, electronic warfare, or maritime patrol variants?

Not US military, but in 1962 Convair proposed a variant of the 990 aircraft to NASA to haul outsize cargo components, just like as with the Aero Spacelines (Boeing) Pregnant Guppy and Super Guppy.
Maybe in the near future, SDASM flickr archives will publish some drawings and pictures showing proposed variants of its 880 and 990 aircraft for military use.

Convair 990 NASA model 06/05/1962

https://flic.kr/p/2piP2RN

View: https://flic.kr/p/2piP2RN

https://flic.kr/p/2piRkf5

View: https://flic.kr/p/2piRkf5

https://flic.kr/p/2piP2SQ

View: https://flic.kr/p/2piP2SQ

https://flic.kr/p/2pkdayJ

View: https://flic.kr/p/2pkdayJ

https://flic.kr/p/2pkd52w

View: https://flic.kr/p/2pkd52w

https://flic.kr/p/2pkcsqL

View: https://flic.kr/p/2pkcsqL

https://flic.kr/p/2pmKsta

View: https://flic.kr/p/2pmKsta

https://flic.kr/p/2pmDHMx

View: https://flic.kr/p/2pmDHMx

https://flic.kr/p/2pmKstk

View: https://flic.kr/p/2pmKstk

 

[fightingirish]

More picture:

https://flic.kr/p/2pSkgtv

View: https://flic.kr/p/2pSkgtv

https://flic.kr/p/2pSnsm2

View: https://flic.kr/p/2pSnsm2

https://flic.kr/p/2pSnsms

View: https://flic.kr/p/2pSnsms

 

[Stargazer]

SDASM archives on Flickr have once again brought to light a beautiful unbuilt project: the CV-880 Airlifter.

As evident from these photos, it was to be a version powered by only two engines fitted ABOVE wing a la VFW-Fokker 614.



NOTE: we already have a topic for the built types in the "built" part of the forum, but no dedicated topic in the "Postwar Projects" section. Hence this new topic. I suggest that a moderator merge it with the existing two-post topics that do not make much sense on their own:

T-tailed Convair 880

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/t-tailed-convair-880.23869/

Convair Cargo-Transport

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/convair-cargo-transport.31619/

 

[Stargazer]

Another find from SDASM's Flickr archive, a projected NASA CV-880 with dorsal hump:

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Merged topics.

 

[Stargazer]

Merged topics.

Splendid. Thanks!

 

[Mark Nankivil]

To go along with Fighting Irish's post earlier in this thread, a wind tunnel model of the 990 Guppy....

Enjoy the Day! Mark

 

[Foo Fighter]

To go along with Fighting Irish's post earlier in this thread, a wind tunnel model of the 990 Guppy....

Enjoy the Day! Mark

That looks like someone slapped some putty on an 80.