Meanwhile, John Naish succeeded Joseph McNarney as president of Convair.

Into Washington on President-elect John F. Kennedy's Convair, the Caroline, winged Actor-Crooner Frank Sinatra and his close Hollywood pal, Cinemactor Peter Lawford, Jack Kennedy's brother-in-law.

Convair had come a close second but Glennan did not want to monopolize the liquid hydrogen fueled rocket market as Convair was already building the Centaur rocket stage.

Following the award of these new foreign charter rights, the airline concluded a US $ 17. 5 million purchase agreement with American Airlines to acquire five of the latter's Convair CV-990A Coronado jetliners between January 1967 and February / March 1968, in anticipation of major growth for low-cost overseas travel by US tour groups.

Convair would experience a little bit of competition from the Martin 2-0-2 and Martin 4-0-4, but in general Convair was able to control this market, as the 2-0-2 had safety concerns and was unpressurized, and the 4-0-4 only sold around 100 units.

* 1965 – An Iberia Airlines Convair 440 crashes into the sea on approach to Tangier, killing 47 of 51 occupants.

One of the most famous was Whitcomb's personal work on the re-design of the Convair F-102 Delta Dagger, a U. S. Air Force jet fighter that was demonstrating performance considerably worse than expected.

Image: Convair 990 on ramp EC92-05275-30. jpg | NASA Convair 990 with antishock bodies on the rear of the wings

For several years after World War II, the US developed and maintained a strategic force based on the Convair B-36 bomber that would be able to attack any potential enemy from bomber bases in the US.

In 1960, back in the United States again, Oberth went to work for the Convair Corporation as a technical consultant on the Atlas rocket program.

Hawaii ANG 199th Fighter Interceptor Squadron F-102s in maintenance hangar at Hickam, 1976 Convair F-102A-30-CO Delta Dagger 54-1373 identifiable, aircraft now on static display at Hickam.

Six Caravelle jetliners were introduced on all medium-haul routes in Europe from February 1961, being flown on most routes alongside the Convair 440s, until the early 1970s.

15: 20 local time, a Convair CV-240 ( registered OO-AWQ ) crashed near Kelsterbach, West Germany, killing the 40 passengers and four crew that had been on the flight from Frankfurt to Brussels.

The tail number VH-TAP on the aircraft featured in the photograph on the album cover of Angus & Julia Stone's EP Big Jet Plane identifies the aircraft as a Trans Australia Airlines Convair CV-240 piston-powered aircraft and is not a jet plane.

Atlas No. 107-D was rolled out of the Convair factory in San Diego, California on February 25, 1962.

The company was formed in 1943 by the merger of Vultee Aircraft and Consolidated Aircraft, and went on to produce a number of pioneering aircraft, such as the Convair B-36 bomber, and the F-102 Delta Dagger and F-106 Delta Dart.

* Convair YB-60 ( 1952 )-jet bomber prototype based on B-36

On December 16, 1951 a Miami Airlines Curtiss C-46F-1-CU Commando bound for Tampa, FL lost a cylinder on takeoff from runway 28 and crashed in Elizabeth killing 56, on January 22, 1952 an American Airlines Convair CV-240-0 arriving from Syracuse, NY crashed in Elizabeth while on approach to runway 6 killing all 23 passengers and crew as well as seven on the ground, and on February 11, 1952 a National DC-6 bound for Miami crashed in Elizabeth after takeoff from runway 24 killing 29 of 63 on board and four persons on the ground.

However, aircraft such as the Bell X-1, F-86 Sabre and Convair F2Y Sea Dart similarly did not have area ruled fuselages yet are acknowledged to have flown at supersonic speeds — here the engine thrust, either alone or in combination with the pull of gravity during a dive, supplies enough force to accelerate the airplane to supersonic speed.

* 1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle.

Although several designs ( such as the Convair flying car ) have flown, none have enjoyed commercial success, and those that have flown are not widely known about by the general public.

* Convair Model 118 – 1947, ConvAirCar, Two prototypes built.

In 1951, the Lockheed XFV-1 and the Convair XFY tailsitters were both designed around the Allison YT40 turboprop engine driving contra-rotating propellers.

In May 1951, both Lockheed and Convair were awarded contracts in the attempt to design, construct, and test two experimental VTOL fighters.

Both Convair and Lockheed competed for the contract but in 1950, the requirement was revised, with a call for a research aircraft capable of eventually evolving into a VTOL ship-based convoy escort fighter.

The culminating design of this research was the Convair F-106 Delta Dart, an aircraft which for many years was the USAF's primary all-weather interceptor.

The Convair 990 used a similar solution, adding bumps called antishock bodies to the trailing edge of the upper wing.

The firm renamed itself General Dynamics Corporation in 1952, and when Convair was acquired the next year, the holding company assumed the " General Dynamics " name, with the submarine building operation retaining the " Electric Boat " name.

Seven companies were selected to develop engineering proposals: Chrysler, the Lockheed Corporation, the Douglas Aircraft Company, the Convair Division of General Dynamics, the Firestone Corp., the Sperry-Rand Company, and the Martin Company.

However, with the development of aircraft like the Convair B-36, both sides were gaining a greater ability to deliver nuclear weapons into the interior of the opposing country.

Some general interest continued until the early 1950s but designs did not necessarily offer a great advantage in range and presented a number of technical problems, leading to the adoption of " conventional " solutions like the Convair B-36 and the B-52 Stratofortress.

Convair decided that they were going to address this market, and would begin producing the Convair 240, which was a 40 person fully pressurized plane.

Convair would later develop the Convair 340, which was slightly larger and could accommodate between 44 and 52 passengers, and 311 of this model plane were produced.

Finally Convair would create a Convair 440, which had small modifications, including much better soundproofing than the previous models.

According to legend, Scrabble's big break came in 1952 when Jack Straus, president of Macy's, played the game on vacation.

His difficulties with the Padres stemmed from a power struggle with team president Ballard Smith and general manager Jack McKeon.

Shortly after the deal was completed in July, Jack – now the company's largest stockholder – appointed himself new president.

Jack Warner did, however, remain studio president until the summer of 1967, when Camelot failed at the box office and Warner gave up his position to the studio's longtime publicity director, Ben Kalmenson ; Warner did, however, remain on board as an independent producer and vice-president.

* March 25 – Jack Kapp, president of the U. S. branch of Decca Records ( b. 1901 )

In a report released by Jack Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University, Lexington ranks 13th in the United States in terms of literacy rate.

Jack Sussman, CBS's senior vice president in charge of specials, said the Tony show sold almost all its advertising slots shortly after CBS announced it would present the three hours.

On April 19, 1944, the second production Lockheed Constellation, piloted by Howard Hughes and TWA president Jack Frye, flew from Burbank, California, to Washington, D. C. in 6 hours and 57 minutes ( 2300 mi – 330. 9 mph ).

Jack Fuller served as the Tribune < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s editor from 1989 until 1993, when he became the president and chief executive officer of the Chicago Tribune.

* Jack Mealey ( born 1899 ) -- minor league baseball catcher, who also managed in the minor leagues and served as president of the Sooner State League

He stepped in following a public battle between the formerly-scheduled keynote debate participants, noted anti-games activist Jack Thompson and Hal Halpin, the president of the Entertainment Consumers Association ( ECA ).

Jack Leonard " J. L ." Warner ( August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978 ), born Jacob Warner in London, Ontario, was a Canadian American film executive who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

According to a 1933 letter that Jack wrote to Will H. Hays, then president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Zanuck requested a higher salary and " indicated his desire to raise the salaries of the actors and personnel in the motion pictures we were producing ".

Jack, as the company's largest stockholder, appointed himself as the new company president.

* Jack Keahey ( 1935 – 2007 ), the longtime member and president of the Tensas Basin Levee Board.

* Jack Keahey, former president of the Caldwell Parish School Board and the Louisiana School Boards Association ; national president of Aerial Applicators Association, and former president of the Tensas Basin Levee Board

* Jack Critcher, president pro tempore of the Arkansas Senate

* Jack Arute ( 1952 ?-), sports commentator and president Stafford Motor Speedway.

* Jack Keahey, former president of the Caldwell Parish School Board and the Louisiana School Boards Association ; national president of Aerial Applicators Association, and former president of the Tensas Basin Levee Board

* Jack Keahey, a St. Joseph native, was the president of the Tensas Basin Levee Board, based in Columbia, the seat of Caldwell Parish.

Other influential people who have lived in Hartsdale include the artist / sculptor Malvina Hoffman, American businessman Vernon Jordan, National Urban League president John Edward Jacob, pro-wrestler " Classy " Freddie Blassie, actor Peter Riegert, singer / musician / composer Billy Vera, novelist and educator Michael Rubin, Mad magazine artist Jack Davis, and Nobel laureate Louis J. Ignarro.