Convair, previously Consolidated Vultee, was an American aircraft-manufacturing company that later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was...
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The Convair CV-240 is an American airliner that Convair manufactured from 1947 to 1954, initially as a possible replacement for the ubiquitous Douglas...
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The Convair B-36 "Peacemaker" is a strategic bomber built by Convair and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1949 to 1959. The B-36 is...
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The Convair 990 Coronado is a retired American narrow-body four-engined jet airliner produced between 1961 and 1963 by the Convair division of American...
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The Convair B-58 Hustler, designed and produced by American aircraft manufacturer Convair, was the first operational bomber capable of Mach 2 flight....
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The Convair 880 is a retired American narrow-body jet airliner produced by the Convair division of General Dynamics. It was designed to compete with the...
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The Convair F-106 Delta Dart was an all-weather interceptor aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Convair. The F-106 was...
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The Convair C-131 Samaritan is an American twin-engined military transport produced from 1954 to 1956 by Convair. It is the military version of the Convair...
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The Convair F-102 Delta Dagger was an interceptor aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Convair. A member of the Century...
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Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash (redirect from Convair 240 N55VM crash)
crash site Greenville Baton Rouge On October 20, 1977, a Convair CV-240 passenger aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed in a wooded area near Gillsburg...
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The Convair F2Y Sea Dart was an American seaplane fighter aircraft that rode on twin hydro-skis during takeoff and landing. It flew only as a prototype...
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The Convair XC-99, AF Ser. No. 43-52436, is a prototype heavy cargo aircraft built by Convair for the United States Air Force. It was the largest piston-engined...
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The Convair YB-60 was a prototype heavy bomber built by Convair for the United States Air Force in the early 1950s. It was a purely jet-powered development...
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The Convair Kingfish reconnaissance aircraft design was the ultimate result of a series of proposals designed at Convair as a replacement for the Lockheed...
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The Convair XF-92 (re-designated from XP-92 in 1948) was an American, delta wing, first-generation jet prototype. Originally conceived as a point-defence...
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The Convair NB-36H was an experimental aircraft that carried a nuclear reactor to test its protective radiation shielding for the crew, but did not use...
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Lockheed Martin (redirect from Convair Aircraft)
The Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American aerospace and defense manufacturer with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation...
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The Convair XFY-1 Pogo was an experimental V/STOL (vertical/short takeoff and landing) aircraft developed during the early years of the Cold War. It was...
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The Convair CV-240 is an American airliner produced by Convair from 1947 to 1954, initially as a possible replacement of the ubiquitous Douglas DC-3. Featuring...
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The Convair R3Y Tradewind was an American 1950s turboprop-powered flying boat designed and built by Convair. Convair received a request from the United...
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Coleopter (redirect from Convair Model 49)
Focke-Wulf Triebflügel "Convair Model 49 helicopter - development history, photos, technical data". www.aviastar.org. "Convair Model 49 | Strange Vehicles...
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Spantax Flight 275 (redirect from 1972 Tenerife Spantax Convair CV-990 crash)
On December 3, 1972, a Convair CV-990 Coronado charter flight operated by Spantax from Tenerife to Munich with 148 passengers and 7 crew crashed while...
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The Convair Model 200 was a design for a supersonic vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fighter requirement for the United States Navy Sea Control Ship...
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The Convair X-6 was a proposed experimental aircraft project to develop and evaluate a nuclear-powered jet aircraft. The project was to use a Convair B-36...
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Consolidated R2Y (redirect from Convair Model 39)
evaluation the prototype was demilitarized in the mid-1940s, returned to Convair, and leased to American Airlines as a freighter with the name "City of...
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The Convair XB-53 was a proposed jet-powered medium bomber aircraft, designed by Convair for the United States Army Air Forces. With a radical tailless...
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Consolidated Vultee XP-81 (redirect from Convair XP-81)
of the United States Green, p. 34 Winchester, p. 74 Ginter, pp. 22–23 "Convair XP-81". National Museum of the United States Air Force. Retrieved 6 December...
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The Convair NC-131H Samaritan, also known as the Total In-Flight Simulator, was originally a C-131B aircraft that underwent conversion by the United States...
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SM-65 Atlas (redirect from Convair B-65 Atlas)
of the Atlas rocket family. It was built for the U.S. Air Force by the Convair Division of General Dynamics at an assembly plant located in Kearny Mesa...
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The Convair XB-46 was a single example of an experimental medium jet bomber which was developed in the mid-1940s but which never saw production or active...
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