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12 unusual facts about Convair


Allentown Queen City Municipal Airport

In addition to 5C, Consolidated Vultee would build an office building, a hangar, an airport and a highway linking 5C with the new airport complex.

Vultee Aircraft and Consolidated Aircraft announced that Consolidated Vultee (later known as Convair) would lease Mack Truck's Plant 5C for production of the Consolidated Vultee TBY-2 Sea Wolf Torpedo Plane for the United States Navy.

Apollo D-2

On October 25, NASA awarded the $250,000, six-month contracts to General Dynamics/Convair, General Electric, and the Glenn L. Martin Company.

Charactron

Charactron was a U.S. registered trademark (number 0585950, 23 February 1954) of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation (Convair) for its shaped electron beam cathode ray tube.

Consolidated Vultee XP-81

The Consolidated Vultee XP-81 was a development of the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation to build a single seat, long range escort fighter that combined use of both a turbojet and a turboprop engines.

Convair C-131 Samaritan

The Convair C-131 Samaritan was an American military transport produced from 1954 to 1956 by Convair.

Convair XFY Pogo

In May 1951, Lockheed and Convair were awarded contracts in the attempt to design, construct, and test two experimental VTOL fighters that would be suitable for use by the Armed forces.

Cornfield Bomber

This individual F-106A Delta Dart was manufactured by Convair, later part of General Dynamics, during 1958, and received the tail number 58-0787.

Jefferson Howard Sutton

As a human factors engineer working for Convair, he explored man's adaptation to machines and established his business as an editorial consultant to industry.

Sid Laverents

He was employed as a sheet metal worker at Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego, California starting in 1941, and with the exception of military service remained with the firm until 1967, by which time it had become part of Convair.

WD-40

WD-40 was first used by Convair to protect the outer skin, and more importantly, the paper thin "balloon tanks" of the Atlas missile from rust and corrosion.

XSM-74

The Convair XSM-74 was a sub-sonic, jet-powered, ground-launched decoy cruise missile.


1954 Swissair Convair CV-240 crash

The 1954 Swissair Convair CV-240 crash occurred on 19 June 1954 when a Swissair Convair CV-240 ditched in the English Channel off Folkestone, Kent having run out of fuel.

Convair Kingfish

In contrast, Convair had massive cost overruns with the B-58 and no secure R&D facility similar to the Skunk Works.

Convair R3Y Tradewind

"Beyond the Frontiers: Convair R3Y Tradewind 'The Flying LST'" Wings of Fame, Volume 18, December 1999, Aerospace Publishing, ISSN 01361-2034

David Medved

After obtaining a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, he worked for Convair/General Dynamics in San Diego, where he developed systems to destroy intercontinental missiles during flight.

Key Airlines

Idaho State University chartered two Convair 440 aircraft from Key to carry its football team from Pocatello to its night game with the University of Idaho in Moscow.

Lawrence J. Fogel

He worked at Stavid Engineering (New Jersey, NJ) and Convair, a division of General Dynamics (San Diego, CA).

Military disc-shaped aircraft

In the US, a number of experimental saucer shaped craft were apparently developed as black projects by Lockheed Corporation for the USAF, and by Convair for the CIA.

SAM-N-2 Lark

Six of the Convair airframes were given to Raytheon to explore use of velocity-gated continuous wave doppler radar for guided missile target seekers, while most other United States investigators used range-gated pulse radar.

Sea Dart

Convair F2Y Sea Dart, a US experimental supersonic fighter seaplane made by Convair in the 1950s

The Century Club of San Diego

The club has its origins in the organizers of the San Diego Open who were looking to broaden their support base beyond corporate sponsors San Diego County Chevrolet Dealers Association and Convair.