I read that Convair proposed the Model 6 heavy-lift transport as a derivative of the Advanced C-99 project with the backswept wings and tail surfaces from the YB-60 competitor to the B-52, and I wanted to ask what the course of US heavy-lift capability during the early Cold War would have been...
I'm looking for General Dynamics' entry into the Navy's VFX program, I found info on the 303, 225, and the 507 but I can't seem to find anything on General Dynamics. From what I've read on the internet it seems to be a smaller version of the failed F-111B with a large folding vertical...
This is a new one to me. I've searched the forum and could not find much if anything on it, so I am posting a new topic dedicated to the Convair 660, a short-haul twin-jet. (Please remove or combine with another appropriate topic, if it already exists). The model photos (and artistic rendering)...
In a Italian magazine of 1939,"Panorama",i have read an article about Americans flying boats.
Was said that a method at the study for land takeoff of flying boats ( in runways near sea aerodromes) was put the flying boat piggy-back on a sort of not flying launch vehicle for reach speed for...
Hi,
I found this strange drawing to F 102,may be,they meant Convair F-102,
but please look to its air intakes !,I think this a French imagine to F-102
before it appeared...
Here's a Consolidated-Vultee wind tunnel model I cannot identify. The search engine did not recognize the design.
Some details caught my attention: the centerline engine is bigger than the other two, which is odd. The wings fold, which is also unusual, at least for a bomber.
Also, I'm...
I am researching the Atlas missile forerunners for a model project. I have some illustrations of the X-12 "Atlas", which had 4 boost engines plus the central sustainer engine; plus a diameter of 12 feet as opposed to the final atlas of 10 feet: but I would like some dimensioned drawings or any...
Hi All,
I'm looking for infos (technical drawings) about Krafft Ehricke Spacecraft designed and projected for Convair in the early 60's
see :
http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/CONVAIR%20MANNED%20LUNAR%20RECON%20VEHICLE%20PAGE.htm...
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