The Convair 990 also burned a lot of fuel; its consumption was 6.24 tons of fuel per hour at Mach 0.85. By comparison, a modern Boeing 737 MAX 8 flying at Mach 0.78 only burns through 2.02 tons of ...

This is the story of the Convair 990 Coronado, a failed commercial passenger jetliner that had a miraculous second renaissance working for NASA. Only then did it receive the above-mentioned RC ...