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The Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, commonly known as Convair, was a US aerospace development and manufacturing complex of the 1940s and later. It was formed in 1943 from a merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee Aircraft. The merger produced one of the world's larger aircraft manufacturers of the period. Convair's most notable designs included the Convair B-36 strategic bomber, the F-102 Delta Dagger and F-106 Delta Dart delta-winged interceptors, and the B-58 Hustler supersonic nuclear strike aircraft.
In March 1953, Convair was acquired by General Dynamics, becoming the Convair Division of the parent company.1 It produced aircraft until 1965, then shifted to space and airframe projects.
In 1994 General Dynamics sold the division's aerostructures and missiles unit to McDonnell Douglas, and sold the Fort Worth facility (including rights to products associated with that facility) to Lockheed.
In 1996 General Dynamics deactivated all remaining entities of the Convair Division.
In addition to aircraft, missiles and space vehicles, Convair developed Charactron tubes, which were precursors to modern CRT monitors2, 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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Products
Aircraft
- Vultee XA-41 (1944)
- Convair XB-53 (1945)
- Convair B-36 Peacemaker (1946)
- Convair CV-240 (1947)
- Convair CV-600 (1965)
- Convair XB-46 (1947)
- Convair XC-99 (1947)
- Convair XF-92 (1948)
- R3Y Tradewind (1950)
- Convair X-6 (1951)
- Convair YB-60 (1952)
- F-102 Delta Dagger (1953)
- F2Y Sea Dart (1953)
- Convair XFY Pogo (1954)
- Convair P6Y (1955)
- B-58 Hustler (1956)
- F-106 Delta Dart (1956)
- Convair 880 (1959)
- Convair KINGFISH (1959)
- Convair 990 Coronado (1961)
- General Dynamics/Convair Model 148 Charger (1964)
- Convair Model 49 (1967-project)
Missiles and rockets
- MX-774 (1948)
- RIM-2 Terrier (1951)
- XGAM-71 Buck Duck (1955)
- Convair X-11 (1957)
- Convair X-12 (1958)
- SM-65 Atlas (1957)
- FIM-43 Redeye (1960)
- Centaur
See also
References
- ^ "General Dynamics Corporation". U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission. Retrieved on 2006-03-31.
- ^ "Charactron Tube". Computing at Chilton, of Atlas Computer Laboratory, Chilton (2006-08-05). Retrieved on 2006-10-22.
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