Word: convairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason to regard fondly, Convention Hall in Atlantic City, where the Democratic Party acclaimed him as its presidential candidate 18 months ago. A dense fog that forced the cancellation of all commercial landings almost kept him away. But, braving a 100-ft. ceiling, he flew in aboard a Convair, soon was standing before the educators...
...last year won a $1.7 billion production contract for its controversial F-111 (born TFX) adjustable-wing Air Force-Navy fighter. The company also garnered development awards to convert it into a spy plane and a bomber to replace the Strategic Air Command's B-52. Though its Convair division in San Diego still limps, G.D. has a near-record backlog of nuclear-submarine orders, is busy producing antiaircraft and ship-to-air missiles...
Flying on to Rome in a two-prop U.S. Air Force Convair T-29, Fowler met with Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro, Governor of the Bank of Italy Guido Carli, and Treasury Minister Emilio Colombo. The Italians have been more sympathetic than most Europeans to the U.S. call for reform, and this time the meetings were cordial from the beginning. "We have given our fullest support" to the idea of an international conference, said Minister Colombo as he and Fowler left the meeting. For the first time, Fowler indicated that the U.S. has a time table for reform: talks...
...sooner was Panair grounded than Varig moved in to pick up the pieces, loaded passengers booked on a Panair DC-8 directly onto a Varig Convair 990 for a Lisbon-Paris-Frankfurt flight. Now Berta is talking about renting two of Panair's DC-8s and assigning a new Varig Boeing 707 to the transatlantic service. It was a familiar routine for Berta & Co. Panair is the tenth Brazilian airline that Varig has swallowed in as many years...
Though fully a year ahead of its competitors, Convair lost out to North American last August in the Pentagon sweepstakes for a counterinsurgency (COIN) aircraft, but the company chose to put the finishing touches (at a cost of $2,000,000) on the plane anyway. And the military was plainly impressed by the Charger-its promised performance, low $250,000 price tag and immediate availability. But even if the Defense Department never orders a single plane, Convair sees a civilian market for the plane as a bush carrier and fire fighter. Whatever comes of it, its debut marks a return...