CONVAIR

The 'Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation', commonly known as 'Convair', was the result of a 1943 merger between Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee Aircraft. The merged entity was a leading aircraft manufacturer of the United States. In March 1953, Convair was acquired by General Dynamics, becoming the 'Convair Division' of the parent company. General Dynamics Corporation It produced aircraft until 1965, then shifted to space and airframe projects. In 1994 General Dynamics sold the division's aerostructures unit to McDonnell Douglas and the Fort Worth facility to Lockheed. In 1996 General Dynamics shut down the rest of the Convair Division.
Convair also developed Charactron tubes, which were precursors to modern CRT monitors^[1], and the CORDIC algorithm, which is widely used today to calculate trigonometric functions in calculators and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).

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Aircraft

References

External links

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Aircraft

Convair aircraft (dates are of first flights):

★ XP-81 (1945)

★ XA-44 (never completed)

★ B-36 (1946) ''Peacemaker''

★ XB-53 (never completed)

★ XB-46 (1947)

★ Convairliner (1947)

★ XC-99 (1947)

★ Model 37 (civilian XC-99, never built)

★ Convair XF-92A (1948)

★ YB-60 (1952)

★ F-102 Delta Dagger (1953)

★ F2Y Sea Dart (1953)

★ R3Y Tradewind (1954)

★ Convair XFY-1 (1954) "Pogo"

★ Convair 240—many variants, including CV 340, CV 440 Metropolitan, C-131 Samaritan, R4Y and T-29

★ Convair 540 (1955)

★ Convair 580

★ Convair 5800

★ B-58 Hustler (1956)

★ F-106 Delta Dart (1956)

★ Convair X-11 (1957)

★ Convair 880 (1959)

★ Convair 990 (1961) "Coronado"

★ Convair CV-600 (1965)
For more information see: http://www.aerospacelegacyfoundation.org

References

1. Charactron Tube

External links

★ Complete productionlist of Convairliners

See also