SEATTLE — In a continuation of last week’s Movie Monday which took us through the industrial preparations for production of the General Dynamics Convair 880 jetliner, this week’s edition takes us inside the ground and flight testing of the new jet that took place between January 1959 and May 1960. What struck me about this particular promotional film from GD was how much the fundamentals of testing and developing new aircraft haven’t changed that significantly over the last half century. I’d be very curious to hear your thoughts on this as well. The two parts, which cannot be embedded here, run about 13 minutes.
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This post originally appeared at Flightglobal.com from 2007 to 2012.