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  1. There was a lounge in TWA's #Convair 880... 😍 How many rows of today's main cabin seats could fit in there? 😜✈️ #aircraft #airtravel #avgeeks #aviation #paxex

  2. El Paso Airport Postcard with American Airlines Convair 240 N94255.
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    N94255 would crash as American Airlines Flight 723 while attempting to land at the Albany Airport, September 16, 1953. All 28 perished.
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    #ElPaso #ElpasoAirport #AmericanAirlines #Cv240 #Convair #AirportArchitecture #Aviation #Avgeek #postcard #vintagepostcards

  3. Via the SDASM archives on Flickr, a pic of a B-58 being used as an air launch platform. The rocket is different from that shown in the 1962 Project Town Hall proposal, but one image there differs from the others and looks like this--so I'm sure that's what this is.

    As well as being a "toss and run" nuclear weapons platform, the idea was for it to launch satellite interceptors and photo reconnaissance satellites. The rocket was to be derived from the Minuteman, so all-solid.

    #Convair #space

  4. SDASM has posted a treasure trove of images showing the mock-up of their proposed LEM. There's more besides these, but I'm picking out these ones as they give details not readily available elsewhere 1/2

    #NASA #Convair #Apollo #1960s

  5. One of the last four surviving #convair B-36 strategic bombers from the 1950s, at the Castle Air Museum in Atwater, CA. This is the last existing H model (the other three are Js) and the last RB-36 variant (fitted with cameras for #aerial #reconnaissance) #avgeek #aircraft #airplane #aviation #museum #usaf #atwater #california #usa #travel #photography (Instagram 17.08.2016)