Luck smiles upon you, and you’re offered a job at Convair, manufacturer of a wide ... that you’ll instead be assigned to an odd little turboprop with a top speed of 277 knots.

From San Diego, Convair’s giant R<SUB>3</SUB>Y-2 Tradewind turboprop transport went aloft as the Navy’s newest flying boat tanker, packing enough fuel for eight swept-wing jets as they ...

Convair built aircraft for the U.S. military, including the B-36 Peacemaker — a massive 10-engine bomber — and the supersonic ...

The big flying boats were grounded. Hoping to salvage the program, Convair proposed replacing the engines with a more reliable Rolls-Royce turboprop. Despite a critical need for tanker ...

Nicknamed the Metropolitan, Convair introduced the 440 in 1954 to compete directly with other turboprop-powered aircraft in the regional airline industry. This aircraft included several upgrades ...

This is the story of the Convair Model 118, the flying car prototype that almost made sense in the late 1940s. Safe to say, every flying car built since shares at least a little bit of its DNA.

That's the definition. In fact, some do! Many larger and faster propeller planes, like the 60s British turboprop HS 748 and the M700 Fury, Piper's fastest propeller-driven craft, use a turbojet ...

The company also wanted a slice of the civilian market, so it introduced the Convair 880 and slightly longer 990 Coronado a year apart. However, these jets arrived after Boeing and Douglas started ...