The aircraft would be called the Model 48 Charger, which would be Convair’s entry into a competition against eight other manufacturers. Each would create a clean-sheet aircraft proposal to ...

American Airlines played a crucial role in shaping the aircraft's development, initially seeking an improved alternative to the DC-3. Convair responded with the Model 110, which eventually evolved ...

When it comes to experimental military aircraft, perhaps one of the strangest proposals was the 1960s Convair Model 49. A mixture of a jet, tank, and attack helicopter, the invention was meant to ...

Photo: Convair (General Dynamics) The Model 116 was a peculiar vehicle in almost every respect. Almost resembling an egg with wings more than it did a roadable aircraft, the Model 116, or the ...

Designed by Stinson and manufactured by Convair, the L-13 emphasized function over form and provided outstanding STOL capability. [Courtesy Stinsonflyer.com] Among the many post-war aircraft that ...

The aircraft earned fame when it was “flown ... Even as Convair was developing the B-36, it began work on the Convair Model 37, a planned civil passenger jet based on the bomber.

That aircraft was the Convair B-36 Peacemaker ... won the contract with its Model 36 design – beating out Boeing’s Model 385. With its wingspan of 230 feet, and powered by six rear-racing ...

The Convair B-36 was soon to be obsolete ... as the fighter attempted to reattach itself to the host aircraft. Would the Model 1211-J have succeeded as a parasite platform?

On the other side was the San Diego-based Convair. Created through the merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultree Aircraft during World War II, the firm was most well-known for developing the ...