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{{Short description|1943β1996 American aerospace manufacturer}} {{Use American English|date=November 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox company | name = Consolidated Vultee<br/>Convair | logo = CONVAIR_logo.png | logo_caption = | logo_alt = | type = | industry = [[Aerospace]] | fate = Operations permanently shut down | predecessor = {{Unbulleted list|[[Consolidated Aircraft]]|[[Vultee Aircraft]]}} | successor = <!-- or: | successors = --> | founded = {{Start date and age|1943}} | founder = <!-- or: | founders = --> | defunct = {{End date and age|1996}} | hq_location_city = [[San Diego]], [[California]] | hq_location_country = [[United States|U.S.]] | area_served = <!-- or: | areas_served = --> | key_people = | products = | owner = <!-- or: | owners = --> | num_employees = | num_employees_year = <!-- Year of num_employees data (if known) --> | parent = {{Unbulleted list|[[Aviation Corporation]]<br/>(1943β1947)|[[Atlas Corporation]]<br/>(1947β1954)|[[General Dynamics]]<br/>(1954β1996)}} | subsid = [[Consairway]] | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> }} [[File:F-106B Delta Dart.jpg|thumb|right|[[Convair F-106 Delta Dart]]]] [[File:DN-SC-92-10045.jpg|thumb|right|[[Convair 880]]]] [[File:RIM-2 Terrier missiles on USS Providence (CLG-6), 2 May 1962 (NH 98548).jpg|thumb|right|[[RIM-2 Terrier]] antiaircraft missile on board [[USS Providence (CLG-6)|USS ''Providence'']]]] [[File:Launch of Friendship 7 - GPN-2000-000686.jpg|thumb|right|Atlas rocket launching [[Friendship 7]], the first U.S. crewed orbital space flight]] [[File:Atlas Centaur 27 with Pioneer 10 on launch pad.jpg|thumb|right|[[Atlas-Centaur]] with [[Pioneer 10]] on launch pad]] '''Convair''', previously '''Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation''', was an American aircraft-manufacturing company that later expanded into [[rocket]]s and [[spacecraft]]. The company was formed in 1943 by the merger of [[Consolidated Aircraft]] and [[Vultee Aircraft]]. In 1953, it was purchased by [[General Dynamics]], and operated as their '''Convair Division''' for most of its corporate history. Convair is best known for its military aircraft; it produced aircraft such as the [[Convair B-36 Peacemaker]] and [[Convair B-58 Hustler]] strategic bombers, and the [[Convair F-102 Delta Dagger]] and [[Convair F-106 Delta Dart]] interceptors. It also manufactured the first [[Atlas (rocket family)|Atlas]] rockets, including the rockets that were used for the crewed orbital flights of [[Project Mercury]]. The company's subsequent [[Atlas-Centaur]] design continued this success and derivatives of the design remain in use as of 2025. The company also entered the [[Jet airliner|jet airliner business]] with its [[Convair 880]] and [[Convair 990]] designs. These were smaller than contemporary aircraft like the [[Boeing 707]] and [[Douglas DC-8]], but somewhat faster than both. This combination of features failed to find a profitable niche and the company exited the airliner design business. However, the manufacturing capability built up for these projects proved very profitable and the company became a major subcontractor for airliner fuselages. The jets made their first flights on January 27, 1959 and January 24, 1961 respectively. 65 and 37 examples of the Convair 880 and Convair 990 were produced respectively. In 1994, most of the company's divisions were sold by General Dynamics to [[McDonnell Douglas Corporation|McDonnell Douglas]] and [[Lockheed Corporation|Lockheed]], with the remaining components deactivated in 1996.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Saturn Launch Vehicle Toroidal Tank Development Program |url=https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=44101.0 |access-date=2023-08-25 |website=forum.nasaspaceflight.com}}</ref> == History == === Origins === Consolidated produced important aircraft in the early years of [[World War II]], especially the [[Consolidated B-24 Liberator|B-24 Liberator]] heavy bomber and the [[Consolidated PBY Catalina|PBY Catalina]] seaplane for the [[United States Armed Forces|U.S. armed forces]] and their allies. Approximately 18,500 B-24s were produced by Consolidated and a number of major contractors across a number of versions; it holds records as the world's most-produced bomber, heavy bomber, multi-engine aircraft, and American military aircraft in history. The Catalina remained in production through May 1945, and more than 4,000 were built. What was soon called "Convair" (first unofficially, and then officially), was created in 1943 by the merger of the [[Consolidated Aircraft]] Company and the [[Vultee Aircraft]] Company. This merger produced a large [[aircraft manufacturer|airplane company]], ranked fourth among United States corporations by value of wartime production contracts, higher than the giants [[Douglas Aircraft]], [[Boeing]], and [[Lockheed Corporation|Lockheed]].<ref>Peck, Merton J. and [[Frederic M. Scherer|Scherer, Frederic M.]] ''The Weapons Acquisition Process: An Economic Analysis'' (1962) Harvard Business School p. 619</ref> Convair always had most of its research, design, and manufacturing operations in [[San Diego County, California|San Diego County]] in [[Southern California]], though surrounding counties participated as well, mostly as contractors to Convair. === Jet Age, Cold War, and Space Age === In March 1953, all of the Convair company was bought by the [[General Dynamics|General Dynamics Corporation]], a conglomerate of military and high-technology companies, and it became officially the '''Convair Division''' within General Dynamics.<ref name=cent>{{cite web|url=http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/generaldynamics/Aero35.htm|title=General Dynamics Corporation|publisher=U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission|access-date=2006-03-31|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081112045623/http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/generaldynamics/Aero35.htm|archive-date=2008-11-12}}</ref> After the beginning of the [[Jet Age]]{{cn|date=July 2022|reason=linked article only mentions civil airliners}} of military fighters and bombers, Convair was a pioneer of the delta-winged aircraft design, along with the French [[Dassault Aviation|Dassault]] aircraft company, which designed and built the [[Dassault Mirage|Mirage fighter plane]]s. One of Convair's most famous products was the ten-engined [[Convair B-36]] strategic bomber, burning four [[turbojets]] and turning six pusher propellers driven by [[Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major]] radial piston engines. The [[Convair B-36 Peacemaker|Convair B-36]] was the largest landbased piston engined bomber in the world. The [[Atlas missile]], the [[Convair F-102 Delta Dagger|F-102 Delta Dagger]] and [[Convair F-106 Delta Dart|F-106 Delta Dart]] delta-winged interceptors, and the delta-winged [[Convair B-58 Hustler|B-58 Hustler]] supersonic intercontinental nuclear bomber were all Convair products. For a period of time in the 1960s, Convair manufactured its own line of jet commercial airliners, the [[Convair 880]] and [[Convair 990 Coronado]], but this did not turn out to be profitable. However, Convair found that it was profitable to be an aviation subcontractor and manufacture large subsections of airliners β such as fuselages β for the larger airliner companies, [[McDonnell Douglas]], [[Boeing]], and [[Lockheed Corporation|Lockheed]]. In the 1950s, Convair shifted money and effort to its missile and rocket projects, producing the [[RIM-2 Terrier|Terrier missile]] ship-launched surface-to-air system for the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] during the 1960s and 1970s. Convair's [[Atlas (rocket family)|Atlas rocket]], originally proposed in 1945 with a unique pressurized cylinder airframe, was revived in the 1950s as an [[ICBM]] for the [[United States Air Force|U.S. Air Force]] using [[V-2]] technology motors in response to the [[Soviet]] missile threat.<ref> see [[Karel Bossart]]</ref> It was first launched in 1957 but its use as an ICBM was soon replaced in 1962 by the room-temperature liquid-fueled [[LGM-25C Titan II|Titan II missile]], and later by the solid-fueled [[LGM-30 Minuteman|Minuteman missile]]. The Atlas rocket transitioned into a civilian launch vehicle and was used for the first orbital crewed U.S. space flights during [[Project Mercury]] in 1962 and 1963. The [[Atlas (rocket family)|Atlas rocket]] became a very reliable booster for launching of satellites and continued to evolve, remaining in use into the 21st century, when combined with the [[Centaur (rocket)|Centaur]] upper stage to form the [[Atlas-Centaur]] [[launch vehicle]] for launching geosynchronous [[communication satellite]]s and [[space probe]]s. The Centaur rocket was also designed, developed, and produced by Convair, and it was the first widely used outer space rocket to use the all-[[cryogenic]] fuel-oxidizer combination of [[liquid hydrogen]] and [[liquid oxygen]]. The use of this liquid hydrogen β liquid oxygen combination in the Centaur was an important direct precursor to the use of the same fuel-oxidizer combination in the Saturn [[S-II]] second stage and the Saturn [[S-IVB]] third stage of the gigantic [[Saturn V]] Moon rocket of the [[Apollo program]]. The S-IVB had earlier also been used as the second stage of the smaller [[Saturn IB]] rocket, such as the one used to launch [[Apollo 7]]. The Centaur upper stage was first designed and developed for launching the [[Surveyor program|Surveyor]] lunar landers, beginning in 1966, to augment the [[Delta-v|delta-V]] of the Atlas rockets and give them enough payload capability to deliver the required mass of the Surveyors to the [[Moon]]. More than 100 Convair-produced Atlas-Centaur rockets (including those with their successor designations) were used to successfully launch over 100 satellites, and among their many other outer-space missions, they launched the [[Pioneer 10]] and [[Pioneer 11]] space probes, the first two to be launched on trajectories that carried them out of the [[Solar System]]. In addition to aircraft, missiles, and space vehicles, Convair developed the large [[Charactron]] vacuum tubes, a form of [[cathode-ray tube]] (CRT) computer display with a shaped mask to form characters,<ref>{{cite web|title=Charactron Tube|publisher=Computing at Chilton, of Atlas Computer Laboratory, Chilton, Oxfordshire|date=2006-08-05|url=http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/technology/sc4020/p002.htm|access-date=2006-10-22|archive-date=18 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618112821/http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/technology/sc4020/p002.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> and to give an example of a minor product, the [[CORDIC]] algorithms, which is widely used today to calculate [[trigonometric function]]s in [[calculator]]s, [[field-programmable gate array]]s, and other small electronic systems. === Dissolution === General Dynamics announced the sale of the Missile Systems Division segment of Convair to [[Hughes Aircraft Company]] in May 1992<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-05-12-mn-1628-story.html |title=Archives |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=12 May 1992 |access-date=16 April 2020 |archive-date=11 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211171845/http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-12/news/mn-1628_1_general-dynamics-pomona |url-status=live }}</ref> and the Space Systems Division segment to [[Martin Marietta]] in 1994.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://legacy.sandiegouniontribune.com/uniontrib/20070611/news_1n11atlas.html |title=The San Diego Union-Tribune - San Diego, California & National News |access-date=3 July 2018 |archive-date=3 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703220843/http://legacy.sandiegouniontribune.com/uniontrib/20070611/news_1n11atlas.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In July 1994, General Dynamics and [[McDonnell Douglas]] mutually agreed to terminate Convair's contract to provide fuselages for the 300-seat [[McDonnell Douglas MD-11|MD-11]] airliner.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-07-02-fi-11075-story.html |title=Archives |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=2 July 1994 |access-date=16 April 2020 |archive-date=19 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119040344/http://articles.latimes.com/1994-07-02/business/fi-11075_1_san-diego |url-status=live }}</ref> Manufacturing responsibility was to be transferred to McDonnell Douglas, which said it would not preserve the operation in San Diego. General Dynamics had tried for two years to sell the Aircraft structures segment of Convair unit, but the effort ultimately failed. The termination of the contract meant the end of the Convair Division and of General Dynamics' presence in San Diego, as well as the city's long aircraft-building tradition. The defense contractor once employed 18,000 people there, but after selling its divisions, that number is now zero. General Dynamics closed its complex in [[Kearny Mesa, San Diego|Kearny Mesa]], demolishing the facility between 1994 and 1996. Homes and offices now occupy the site. The [[San Diego International Airport|Lindbergh Field]] plant that produced B-24s during [[World War II]] was also demolished and the consolidated rental car facility now occupies this space. The [[Fort Worth, Texas]] factory, constructed to build the B-24s, and its associated engineering locations and laboratories β all previously used to make hundreds of Consolidated B-24s, [[General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark]] fighter-bombers and [[General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon]]s, along with dozens of smaller projects β were sold, along with all intellectual property and the legal rights to the products designed and built within, to the [[Lockheed Corporation]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1992/12/10/lockheed-to-acquire-jet-division-general-dynamics-selling-f-16-program/ |title=Lockheed Buys General Dynamics | Lockheed to acquire jet division General Dynamics selling F-16 program - tribunedigital-baltimoresun |date=10 December 1992 |access-date=3 July 2018 |archive-date=3 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703220941/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1992-12-10/business/1992345131_1_military-aircraft-general-dynamics-aircraft-division |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1996, General Dynamics deactivated all of the remaining legal entities of the Convair Division. == Timeline == <ref>[http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Textron-Lycoming-Turbine-Engine-Company-History.html Textron Lycoming Turbine Engine] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101003081015/http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Textron-Lycoming-Turbine-Engine-Company-History.html |date=3 October 2010 }}, a company history of AVCO and Lycoming/Textron</ref><ref>[http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/lehman/chrono.html?company=avco_financial_services_inc Avco Financial Services, Inc.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100629193213/http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/lehman/chrono.html?company=avco_financial_services_inc |date=29 June 2010 }} from the Lehman Brothers Collection β Twentieth Century Business Archives</ref><ref>[http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/Consolidated_Vultee/Aero33.htm Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606012521/http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/Consolidated_Vultee/Aero33.htm|date=June 6, 2011}}, U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission</ref><ref>[http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/generaldynamics/Aero35.htm General Dynamics Corporation] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081112045623/http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/generaldynamics/Aero35.htm|date=November 12, 2008}}, U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission</ref><ref>[http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/c/central/central.htm Central Manufacturing Co. of Connersville, Indiana] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090725114537/http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/c/central/central.htm |date=25 July 2009 }}, a history of Cord, AVCO, and others</ref> * 1923 '''Consolidated Aircraft Corporation''' formed by [[Reuben H. Fleet|Major Reuben H. Fleet]] * 1934 [[AVCO]] acquired the '''Airplane Development Corporation''' from Cord and formed the '''Aviation Manufacturing Corporation''' (AMC) * 1936 AMC liquidated to form the '''Vultee Aircraft Division''', an autonomous subsidiary of AVCO * 1939 Vultee Aircraft Division of AVCO reorganized as an independent company known as '''Vultee Aircraft, Inc.''' * 1941 Consolidated Aircraft Corporation sold to AVCO * 1943 '''Consolidated-Vultee''', formed by the merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee Aircraft; still controlled by AVCO * 1947 Convair acquired by the '''[[Atlas Corporation]]''' * 1953-1954 Convair acquired by '''[[General Dynamics]]'''<ref name=atsbbos>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rGMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=7213,4641481|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|title=Atlas to sell big block of Convair stock|agency=United Press|date=March 31, 1953|page=17|access-date=9 February 2016|archive-date=11 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311233108/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rGMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=7213,4641481|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=gdvdam>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aJ80AAAAIBAJ&sjid=pnIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6115,305088|newspaper=The Day|location=New London, Connecticut|title=General Dynamics, Vultee Directors Approve Merger|date=March 2, 1954|page=15|access-date=9 February 2016|archive-date=11 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311233111/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aJ80AAAAIBAJ&sjid=pnIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6115,305088|url-status=live}}</ref> * 1985 General Dynamics formed their "Space Systems Division" from the Convair Space Program * 1992 Missile Systems Division sold to [[Hughes Aircraft Company]] * 1993 The Fort Worth facility sold to [[Lockheed Corporation]] (now [[Lockheed Martin]]) * 1994 Space Systems Division sold to [[Martin Marietta]] (now [[Lockheed Martin]]) * 1994 Convair Aircraft Structures unit sold to [[McDonnell Douglas]] (now [[Boeing]]) == Products == === Aircraft === [[File:Convair B-36 Peacemaker.jpg|thumb|[[Convair B-36 Peacemaker]], which used both piston and jet engines in later versions]] [[File:Convair_340-48_PH-TGD_KLM_Ringway_03.01.54_edited-2.jpg|thumb|[[Convair CV-340]]]] [[File:XF-92A DVIDS834987.jpg|thumb|right|The Convair [[Convair XF-92|XF-92A]] was the first U.S. [[delta wing]] aircraft]] [[File:Convair B-58 Hustler USAF.jpg|thumb|[[Convair B-58 Hustler]]]] {| class="wikitable sortable" align=center;" |- ! Model name ! First flight ! Number built ! Type |- |align=left| [[Vultee XA-41]] |align=center| 1944 |align=center| 1 |align=left| Prototype single-engine (28-cyl. radial) ground attack aircraft |- |align=left| [[Consolidated Vultee XP-81]] |align=center| 1945 |align=center| 2 |align=left| Prototype combined turboprop/turbojet engine escort fighter |- |align=left| [[Convair 106 Skycoach]] |align=center| 1946 |align=center| 1 |align=left| Prototype single-engine (6-cyl. opposed-piston) general aviation aircraft |- |align=left| [[Stinson 108]] |align=center| 1944 |align=center| 5,135 |align=left| Single-engine (4-cyl. opposed-piston) general aviation aircraft |- |align=left| [[Convair Model 110]] |align=center| 1946 |align=center| 1 |align=left| Prototype twin-engine (18-cyl. radial) airliner |- |align=left| [[Convair Model 111]] |align=center| 1940s |align=center| 1 |align=left| Prototype single-engine utility airplane |- |align=left| [[Convair Model 116]] |align=center| 1946 |align=center| 1 |align=left| Roadable aircraft |- |align=left| [[Convair B-36]] |align=center| 1946 |align=center| 384 |align=left| Combined piston/jet engine strategic bomber |- |align=left| [[Convair CV-240]] |align=center| 1947 |align=center| |align=left| Twin-engine (18-cyl. radial) airliner |- |align=left| [[Convair XB-46]] |align=center| 1947 |align=center| 1 |align=left| Prototype four jet-engine medium bomber |- |align=left| [[Convair Model 118]] |align=center| 1947 |align=center| 2 |align=left| Roadable aircraft |- |align=left| [[Convair XC-99]] |align=center| 1947 |align=center| 1 |align=left| Prototype transport aircraft |- |align=left| [[Convair XF-92]] |align=center| 1948 |align=center| 1 |align=left| Experimental single jet engine interceptor aircraft |- |align=left| [[Convair C-131 Samaritan]] |align=center| 1949 |align=center| 512 |align=left| Twin-engine (18-cyl. radial) cargo aircraft |- |align=left| [[Convair CV-340]] |align=center| 1951 |align=center| |align=left| Twin-engine (radial) airliner |- |align=left| [[Convair YB-60]] |align=center| 1952 |align=center| 1 |align=left| Prototype eight-engine jet strategic bomber |- |align=left| [[Convair F2Y Sea Dart]] |align=center| 1953 |align=center| 5 |align=left| Twin jet-engine fighter seaplane |- |align=left| [[Convair F-102 Delta Dagger]] |align=center| 1953 |align=center| 1,000 |align=left| Single jet-engine interceptor |- |align=left| [[Convair R3Y Tradewind]] |align=center| 1954 |align=center| 13 |align=left| Four turboprop-engine transport flying boat |- |align=left| [[NC-131H TIFS|Convair NC-131H TIFS]] |align=center| 1970 |align=center| 1 |align=left| In-Flight Simulation testbed aircraft |- | align=left | [[Convair NB-36H]] | align=center | 1955 | align=center | 1 | align=left | Experimental nuclear powered bomber |- |align=left| [[Convair XFY Pogo]] |align=center| 1954 |align=center| 1 |align=left| Experimental vertical takeoff and landing fighter |- |align=left| [[Convair CV-440 Metropolitan]] |align=center| 1955 |align=center| |align=left| Twin-engine (radial) airliner |- |align=left| [[Convair B-58 Hustler]] |align=center| 1956 |align=center| 116 |align=left| Four jet-engine strategic bomber |- |align=left| [[Convair F-106 Delta Dart]] |align=center| 1956 |align=center| 342 |align=left| Single jet-engine interceptor |- |align=left| [[Convair 880]] |align=center| 1959 |align=center| 65 |align=left| Four jet-engine airliner |- |align=left| [[Convair 990 Coronado]] |align=center| 1961 |align=center| 37 |align=left| Four jet-engine airliner |- |align=left| [[Convair Model 48 Charger]] |align=center| 1964 |align=center| 1 |align=left| Prototype twin turboprop-engine light attack aircraft |- |align=left| [[Convair CV-240 family|Convair CV-600]] |align=center| 1965 |align=center| |align=left| Twin turboprop-engine airliner |- |align=left| [[Convair CV-240 family|Convair CV-640]] |align=center| 1965 |align=center| |align=left| Twin turboprop-engine airliner |- |align=left| [[Convair XB-53]] |align=center| N/A |align=center| 0 |align=left| Unbuilt triple jet-engine medium bomber |- |align=left| [[Convair X-6]] |align=center| N/A |align=center| 0 |align=left| Unbuilt experimental nuclear powered aircraft |- |align=left| [[Convair XP6Y]] |align=center| N/A |align=center| 0 |align=left| Unbuilt combined piston/jet engine anti-submarine flying boat |- |align=left| [[Convair Kingfish]] |align=center| N/A |align=center| 0 |align=left| Unbuilt twin jet-engine reconnaissance aircraft |- |align=left| [[Convair Model 23]] |align=center| N/A |align=center| 0 |align=left| Unbuilt twin jet-engine seaplane bomber |- |align=left| [[Convair Model 58-9]] |align=center| N/A |align=center| 0 |align=left| Unbuilt supersonic transport aircraft |- |align=left| [[Convair Model 49]] |align=center| N/A |align=center| 0 |align=left| Unbuilt three turboprop-engine coleopter |- |align=left| [[Convair 660]] |align=center| N/A |align=center| 0 |align=left| Unbuilt twin jet-engine airliner<ref>{{cite web|title=Convair 660 |year=1967 |publisher=[[Flight International]] |url=https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1967/1967%20-%202342.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604065123/https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1967/1967%20-%202342.html |archive-date=4 June 2016 }}</ref> |- |align=left| [[Convair Model 200]] |align=center| N/A |align=center| 0 |align=left| Unbuilt single jet-engine VTOL fighter aircraft |} === Missiles and rockets === * [[RTV-A-2 Hiroc]] (1946) β high-altitude rocket * [[SAM-N-2 Lark]] (late 1940s) β surface-to-air naval missile * [[MX-774]] (1948) β precursor to Atlas * [[XSM-74]] (1950s) β decoy cruise missile * [[RIM-2 Terrier]] (1951) β surface-to-air naval missile * [[RIM-24 Tartar]] (1962) β surface-to-air naval missile * [[XGAM-71 Buck Duck]] (1955) β decoy missile * [[Sky Scorcher]] (1956) β proposed air-to-air missile * [[Pye Wacket]] (1957) β air-to-air defensive missile project, cancelled during development * [[FIM-43 Redeye]] (1960) β man-portable surface-to-air missile * [[Atlas (rocket family)]] (1959) The Atlas civilian space booster ** [[Atlas E/F]] ** [[Atlas G]] ** [[Atlas H]] ** [[Atlas LV-3B]] ** [[Atlas SLV-3]] ** [[Atlas-Able]] ** [[Atlas-Agena]] ** [[SM-65 Atlas]] β The Atlas ICBM Air Force missile (1957) ** [[SM-65A Atlas|Convair X-11 and SM-65A Atlas]] (1957) β Atlas A prototype ** [[SM-65B Atlas|Convair X-12 and SM-65B Atlas]] (1958 β Atlas B prototype ** [[SM-65C Atlas]] ** [[SM-65D Atlas]] ** [[SM-65E Atlas]] ** [[SM-65F Atlas]] ** [[Atlas-Centaur]] (1962) and its successor-designations, all of which combined an Atlas booster with a centaur upper stage β a civilian rocket to launch spacecraft to outer space. * [[Centaur (rocket stage)|Centaur]] (1962) * [[Tomahawk (missile family)|BGM-109]] Tomahawk long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missile. * [[AGM-129]] Advanced Cruise Missile (1983) β stealthy, nuclear, air-launched cruise missile == References == === Notes === {{Reflist|30em}} === Bibliography === {{Refbegin}} * {{cite book|last=Wegg|first=John|title=General Dynamics Aircraft and their Predecessors|year=1990|publisher=Putnam Aeronautical Books|location=London|isbn=0-85177-833-X }} {{Refend}} == External links == {{commons category|Convair}} {{external media |video1=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GI9u511XCE Convair Heritage: History of General Dynamics/Consolidated/Convair] }} * [http://www.aerospacelegacyfoundation.org Aerospacelegacyfoundation.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201118111641/http://www.aerospacelegacyfoundation.org/ |date=18 November 2020 }} * [http://www.abcdlist.nl/mainc.html Abcdlist.nl: Complete production list of Convairliners] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171129053958/http://www.abcdlist.nl/mainc.html |date=29 November 2017 }} * Employee newspaper, ''[http://www.fortworthtexasarchives.org/digital/collection/convairnews Convairiety],'' at the Fort Worth Public Library Archives. 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