Nice airplane for sale...

[350DRIVER]

http://www.aviatorsale.com/aix2571/


Seems like the price is right !!

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[TrafficInSight]

That would be cool... but I bet you couldn't keep it anywhere without the locals riding you out of town on rails.

 

[350DRIVER]

That would be cool... but I bet you couldn't keep it anywhere without the locals riding you out of town on rails.

I'll make a deal with ya... If you give me the money then I will give it a shot and see if I am successful in keeping it.


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[TrafficInSight]

If I had that kind of money... well... you know

 

[C601]

It says the last time it flew was 9 years ago, that was the same time NASA used a Convair to test space shuttle landing gear and braking systems as part of NASA's effort to upgrade and improve space shuttle capabilities.

 

[TrafficInSight]

It says the last time it flew was 9 years ago, that was the same time NASA used a Convair to test space shuttle landing gear and braking systems as part of NASA's effort to upgrade and improve space shuttle capabilities.

Not the same plane. That one is in storage in Mojave.

 

[garf12]

How much you think it would cost to make it flyable?

 

[Flying Illini]

you know what they say:

If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

 

[C601]

I was able to the one NASA used


http://www.airliners.net/open.file/373771/L

Interesting read

What killed the Convair 880 was not its drag - it was one of the fastest airliners of its generation. Rather, the problem was that they went with a fuselage cross-section that was too small, and the airlines found that passengers didn't like them. Convair figured that speed was more important than comfort and they were wrong. Their other mistake was using GE engines (a derivative of the J-79). Howard Hughes (who owned TWA at the time) suckered them into building the 880.
The follow-up, the Convair 990, was even bigger disaster. Here,
they did miss the drag initially and they went through a lot of
development work to get the performance back. There is a excellent AIAA
paper about the drag reduction work done on the 990.

 

[DenverDude2002]

Thats a sweet plane, hope someone buys it, fixes it up, and flys it to AirVenture one of these years

 

[EagleRJ]

It would be nice to see someone pick it up and restore it to flying condition. Sure, they only want $77k for it, but fuel and mx for that plane is going to cost $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!

Not just its size, but the fact that it was built for times when fuel was cheap and speed was king (.91 cruise). It would make one bad-a$$ ride, though!

 

[rway36]

El Paso

This plane you see above sits on the ramp in El Paso. Next to all the ones being parted out.

 

[Jmmccutc]

If I had that kind of money... well... you know

you'd pay for my college education?