This 110 seat airliner was Convair's entry in competition to the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC8. Its main selling point was to be its superior speed- over 600 mph. The 880 was originally named the Convair 600, both names referring to its top speed of 600 mph or less obvious, 880 ft/sec.
Only 65 were built between 1959 and 1962 and the experience took Convair out of the airliner business. Imaginative graphics in this ad though....
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