CV-990A VMO/MMO
As far as I know, Convair CV-990A is the fastest non-supersonic commercial transport to have ever been produced.
Reading an AA FCOM/Limitation it's written that her MMO was slightly below M.92. However, during a chat, some guys told me that her normal cruise speed was M.94 (?!?!). Sorry, same old question: does anybody really know the actual VMO/MMO and cruise speed normally used when she was considered the fastest airliner? Was she faster than a Citation X? Thanks! |
I believe that she was faster than both Citation X and G650! Sorry I can't answer your other questions. I used to see it sometimes with it's smokey donks in the mid 80s... Check the TCDS
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=isP1LVVZ6nU |
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Related threads from earlier:
https://www.pprune.org/tech-log/9814...-airliner.html https://www.pprune.org/spectators-ba...-coronado.html And, of course, there was the 1961 supersonic DC-8 flight at Edwards AFB: https://www.airspacemag.com/history-...onic-27846699/ Supersonic DC-8 |
Yep the DC 8 was the first civilian transport to go supersonic in a controlled dive from FL 500
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