Convair

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The Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, commonly known as Convair, was the result of a 1943 merger between Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee Aircraft, resulting in a leading aircraft manufacturer of the United States. In March 1953, Convair was acquired by General Dynamics, becoming the Convair Division of the merged company.^[1] It produced aircraft until 1965, then shifted to space and airframe projects. In 1994 this aerostructures unit was sold to McDonnell Douglas, the Fort Worth facility went to Lockheed, and in 1996 General Dynamics shut down the Convair Division.

Convair also developed Charactron tubes, which were precursors to modern CRT monitors^[2], and the CORDIC algorithm, which is widely used today to calculate trigonometric functions in calculators and FPGAs.

1 Aircraft
2 References
3 External links
4 See also

[edit] Aircraft

The Convair XF-92A was the USA's first delta wing 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

[edit] References

^ General Dynamics Corporation. U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission. Retrieved on March 31, 2006.
^ Charactron Tube. Computing at Chilton, of Atlas Computer Laboratory, Chilton (2006-08-05). Retrieved on October 22, 2006.