#General Dynamics Convair

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"1962 Boeing Apollo Lunar Excursion Module Proposal, painting by Boeing artist Jack Olson

On July 25, 1962, NASA invited 11 firms to submit proposals for the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM). Of the 11 invited, 9 submitted proposals. The firms that submitted proposals were Lockheed, Boeing, Northrop, Ling-Temco-Vought, Grumman, Douglas, General Dynamics Convair, Republic, and Martin Marietta. Grumman won."

Date: July 25, 1962

Paul Carsola: link

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The lobby of Convair / General Dynamics plant,

San Diego, California, United States,

Designed by William Leonard Pereira and Charles Luckman in 1958

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Convair sign in San Diego, 1959.

(SDASM Archives)

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Convair and General Dynamics.

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1958

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Fastest... Finest... for the new jet age!

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Convair’s CV-340 aircraft, 1959

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1960 Convair's 880, the only American-built airline with all first-class seating... General Dynamics Corporation 

Source: Time Magazine 

Published at: https://propadv.com/aircraft-ad-and-poster-collection/convair-ad-and-poster-collection/ 

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It is 1959, the last Convair B-36 Peacemaker lands for the last time, meanwhile somewhere in the sky a KC-135 refuels a B-52.

It is 1970, the last Convair B-58 Hustler lands for the last time, meanwhile somewhere in the sky a KC-135 refuels a B-52.

It’s 1998, the last General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark lands for the last time, meanwhile somewhere in the sky a KC-135 refuels a B-52.

It’s 2024, the last McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender lands for the last time, meanwhile somewhere in the sky a KC-135 refuels a B-52.

It’s 2032, the last Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit lands for the last time…

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The late Senator Howard Baker said of the CIA during the Watergate scandal that “there are animals crashing around in the forest. I can hear them but I can’t see them.” Carlos Marcello and the Chicago Outfit, and their friends in the defense contracting world, were hardly the only ones with grudges against John F. Kennedy, nor would they have had the means to act against him alone. The training at the Pontchartrain property was publicly exposed by the Kennedys’ mid-1963 turn against the CIA’s anti-Castro Cuban training program, and between the TFX contract, the new post-Crisis retreat in the fight against communism, the Kennedys’ tentative support for civil rights, and the possibility of indictment in a second Kennedy term under newly enhanced prosecution statutes, the Kennedy administration was kicking up a great deal of shit with its ostensible coalition allies despite its continued relative popularity with the public. 

By the time Kennedy visited the South in the fall of 1963, credible plots against his life were tracked in Miami and Chicago; the Secret Service still permitted an open-air motorcade, despite an increasingly long and obvious enemies list. 

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The murdered prospector’s ex-employer, General Dynamics, and other military contractors have prospered in the 2020s just as they did in the 1980s. While the Dow Jones has been down six percent over the last 12 months, and the U.S. is still under threat of economic recession, GD stock is up more than 17 percent. On Jan. 4, Toronto’s National Post reported that “Super Bison” armored vehicles had arrived in Ukraine after manufacture by GD in London, Ontario. On Jan. 6, Secretary of State Tony Blinken announced $3.75 billion in new military aid for Ukraine that includes missiles co-produced by Raytheon and General Dynamics, which can now be fitted for use on ex-Soviet launchers used by Ukraine. Jack Kennedy is long dead, but Convair is doing just fine, as are all of its friends.

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General Dynamics Convair Models 200 / 201 / 218 Sea Control Ship fighters

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Mid-fuselage of Enterprise (OV-101) under construction at General Dynamics' Convair Division's facility in San Diego, California.

Date: early 1975

Shared by Stephen Isherwood on the "ENTERPRISE Early Shuttle Development" Facebook page: link, link

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01_00094907 General Dynamics/Convair Charger Model 48 by SDASM Archives Via Flickr: Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum

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General Dynamics Grumman F-111Bs (Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection)

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General Dynamics Convair Astronautics plant, San Diego California Via Flickr

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Front cover: General Dynamics’ Convair 880/600 Jet Airliners capabilities brochure - 1959.