Convair was an US-American airplane manufacturer. It developed 1943, when Vultee aircraft and Consolidated aircraft united to a new manufacturer. Reason was the requirement to the production of a new superbomber, which should down-struggle the Japanese in the Pacific. This was the starting signal for the Convair B-36 Peacemaker.

In April 1954 Convair the general followed Dynamics group and was then called: Convair division OF general Dynamics. At this time Convair maintained production plants in San Diego, Pomona and Fort Worth. In particular within the military range Convair was competitive. Thus one developed the first airplane with a the Convair F-102, and the first supersonic bomber of the world, the Convair B-58. The civilian propeller types like the Convair CV 240, Convair CV 340 and Convair CV 440 sold themselves into the 1950er year well. One wanted to repeat this success with the jet-powered types Convair CV 880 and Convair CV 990 end of the 1950er and at the beginning of the 1960er years. They could not become generally accepted however against the competition of Douglas, already established, and Boeing, because they came too late. In addition they did not correspond to the desires of the airlines with their interpretation for particularly high cruising speeds and the therefore very narrow trunk with accordingly small passenger capacity.

Convair built to 1965 far airplanes, in order to then turn to space travel. 1951 one already got the order to develop an intercontinental missile (ICBM) for the use from nuclear weapons to. From this developed the Atlas booster rocket, which started for the first time on 18 December 1958. With such a further developed rocket John Glenn became 1962 the first American spaceman, who orbited the earth. Together with the Centaur stage likewise developed by Convair the Atlas rocket became for approximately 30 years the most important means of the Americans, in order to bring satellites into the orbit.

The moreover one than component supplier of the aircraft industry was active. Thus one built sections for the space shuttle, was involved in the Tomahawk and supplied starting from 1985 parts for the McDonnell Douglas MD-11. 1994 became Convair thereupon at McDonnell Douglas sells. 1996 were liquidated the company.

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