Convair (redirect from Consolidated Vultee)
Convair, previously Consolidated Vultee, was an American aircraft-manufacturing company that later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was...
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European theaters. In 1943, Consolidated merged with Vultee Aircraft to form Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft, later known as Convair. The Los Angeles-based...
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Stinson L-5 Sentinel (redirect from Vultee L-5 Sentinel)
Force. It was produced by the Stinson Division of the Vultee Aircraft Company (Consolidated-Vultee from mid-1943). Along with the Stinson L-1 Vigilant,...
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The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) operated Vultee Vengeance dive bombers during World War II. The Australian Government ordered 297 of the type in...
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Lost control in cloud Cornelia Fort United States 1943 First WAFS fatality Vultee BT-13 Valiant 10 miles south of Merkel, Texas, United States mid-air collision...
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Errett Lobban Cord (category American Airlines people)
Development Corporation, which was instrumental in the development of Jerry Vultee's Vultee V-1. Born in Warrensburg, Missouri, Cord had been a race car driver...
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Downey, California (redirect from List of people from Downey, California)
1964. Suburban homes and factories replaced the farms after World War II. Vultee Aircraft was Downey's largest employer during World War II producing 15%...
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than 2 miles (3.2 km) from the runway. All 6 members of the Consolidated Vultee test crew were killed, including pilot Marvin R. Weller, co-pilot Conrad...
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Los Angeles (section Notable people)
Aircraft, Lockheed, North American Aviation, Northrop Corporation, and Vultee). During the war, more aircraft were produced in one year than in all the...
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an aircraft pilot may abort a takeoff without causing a runway overrun Vultee V-1, an American single-engine airliner of the 1930s Fokker V.1, a German...
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passengers survived, but the aircraft was written off. April 22, 1947: A Vultee BT-13, owned by the Tuskegee Aviation Institute, the pilot attempted to...
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Catalina, Stinson Reliant, Grumman Goose, Noorduyn Norseman, Avro Anson and Vultee L-1 Vigilant. The first international flight (from Reykjavík to Copenhagen)...
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Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (section Notable people)
as 1942 with licensed production of Harlow PC-5, Curtiss P-36 Hawk and Vultee A-31 Vengeance for the Indian Air Force. HAL currently has 11 dedicated...
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steady expansion. New aircraft added to the fleet included the US-built Vultee Vengeance, Douglas Dakota, the British Hawker Hurricane, Supermarine Spitfire...
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was unveiled on 10 February 1923 by Mrs Tresize. On 5 July 1943, a RAAF Vultee Vengeance (Serial Number A27-217) crash landed on the beach near Port Douglas...
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Seversky P-35 Vickers Wellington IV VL Myrsky – Finnish "emergency fighter" Vultee P-66 Vanguard Model R-1830-65 on display at the Museo Nacional de Aeronautica...
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Northrop YB-35 Republic XP-72 Republic XF-12 Rainbow SNCASE SE-2010 Armagnac Vultee XA-41 An R-4360 is on display at the Texas Air Museum, Stinson Municipal...
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Sigizmund Levanevsky (category People from Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd)
to Moscow, via Alaska and Siberia. The 10,000 mile flight was made in a Vultee V-1AS, though the floats were replaced with wheel landing gear. For this...
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Jack Northrop (category People from Hawthorne, California)
project to punish him for refusing to merge his company with Consolidated Vultee. He alleged that Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington threatened him by...
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the toughest set of specifications USAAC had ever presented. The unbuilt Vultee XP1015 design was offered to fill this requirement, but was not advanced...
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Allan Lockheed (category People from Fremont, California)
Northrop left Lockheed Aircraft to start his own company. Gerald Vultee (later to found Vultee Aircraft) became the Lockheed chief engineer. Part of the reason...
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design, inherited when Piper bought the Stinson Division of the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation. The prototype PA-23 was a four-seat, low-wing, all-metal...
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6 million people. The government's broader U-6 unemployment rate, which includes the part-time underemployed, was 8.1% or 8.2 million people. These figures...
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6 Tupolev SB – 13 Yakovlev UT-1 trainer – 13 A-12 Shrike Northrop A-17 Vultee A-19 A-29 Hudson Martin B-10 C-19 Alpha Beechcraft Staggerwing C-43 Beechcraft...
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As World War II arrived, the U.S. military chose the Wasp Junior for the Vultee BT-13 Valiant and North American BT-14 basic training aircraft and for the...
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the original on 30 August 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2019. Kostev K, Von Vultée C, Usinger DM, Reese JP (January 2018). "Tramadol prescription patterns...
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crashed near Goodwin, Arkansas, killing all 17 people on board. Cause undetermined. January 29, 1936: A Vultee V-1A, registration NC13767, struck trees and...
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479. St. John, Philip A. (1990). The Liberator Legend: The Plane and the People. Turner Publishing Company. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-938021-99-5. Johnsen, Frederick...
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Corporation, then by Aviation Corporation (AVCO), and later by Consolidated Vultee. In 1948, the Stinson company was sold to the Piper Aircraft Corporation...
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