One crew member was killed and about 19 people injured when a twin-engine Convair CV-340 airliner crashed July 10 outside of Wonderboom Airport, near Pretoria, South Africa, according to media ...

One crew member was killed and about 19 people injured when a twin-engine Convair CV-340 airliner crashed July 10 outside of Wonderboom Airport, near Pretoria, South Africa, according to media ...

The aircraft - CV580 serial number 2 - is the oldest of the Convair 240/340/580/640/5800 series still flying. Flight's ACAS database says the aircraft was built in January 1952 and was delivered ...

South African investigators have revealed that the crew of a Convair 340 were unsure which of the aircraft's two engines had caught fire before it crashed while attempting to return to Wonderboom ...

W hen Floyd B. Odium’s Atlas Corp. bought control of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft in 1947, it looked as if Speculator Odium had made a mistake. That year Convair lost $32.4 million on its C-24O ...

Long before Concorde defined supersonic travel, Convair imagined a fleet of sleek, high-speed transports derived from the B-58 Hustler. Their vision included flying civilians in pressurized pods ...

Convair engineers conceived a plan to employ retractable hydro-skis for waterborne operations. J.M. Caiella The Navy awarded Convair a contract for two XF2Y-1 prototype aircraft in January 1951.

In Article Audio PlayerAmong the many post-war aircraft that were developed in the late 1940s and 1950s, one of the more interesting and lesser-known examples is the Convair L-13. Tasked with ...