Convair Advanced Designs - Hardcover

Bradley, Robert E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1580071333 ISBN 13: 9781580071338

Publisher: Specialty Pr Pub & Wholesalers, 2010

Synopsis

Consolidated Vultee, which later became Convair, built some of the world's best flying boats in the 1930s, and the world's best bombers during World War II. Convair's six-engine B-36 strategic bomber was credited with keeping the world safe during the early throes of the Cold War. But before all these great aircraft took to the skies, scores of ideas and concepts were proposed and analyzed by company management to determine if production would even be feasible.
Convair Advanced Designs is a book that brings these futuristic, but stillborn, concepts to life for the very first time. This book features many never-before-seen company photographs, models, and drawings of such futuristic concepts as a folding-rotor anti-submarine patrol bomber and a giant seaplane passenger transport launched from a high-speed rail car! Readers will also be fascinated to see how certain seemingly unbelievable designs evolved into actual production airplanes years later, such as the giant Convair Tradewind turboprop seaplane transport.

About this title

About the Author

Robert Bradley graduated with a degree in physics from the University of Southern California. After graduation he worked for four years at North American Aviation in El Segundo in the Systems and Tactics Group. In1957, he moved to Convair Astronautics (later General Dynamics Space Systems Division) in San Diego where he remained until his retirement. After his retirement in 1993 he became a volunteer archivist at the San Diego Air & Space Museum, specializing in the museum's space and missile collection and its Convair archives. Mr. Bradley has a long-standing interest in aerospace history, with special emphasis on design studies and proposals of projects that did not reach the hardware stage. He lives with his wife Linda in the Pacific Beach community of San Diego.

Edition details

• Publisher: Specialty Pr Pub & Wholesalers
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1580071333
• ISBN 13: 9781580071338
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184