The biggest merger in U.S. aviation history last week got off to a fast start. Not a minnow, but a pickerel of an industry began to swallow a whale. Vultee Aircraft, Inc. announced that it would buy ...

Consolidated Vultee Aircraft (Convair) tested a flying car here 75 years ago. The experimental duel-use ConvAirCar was designed by Theodore Hall. The machine combined a four-passenger, rear engine ...

When Floyd B. Odium’s Atlas Corp. bought control of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. from Financier Victor Emanuel in 1947, Odium expected a rough ride. Like other investors in aviation, he knew ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. During World War II, Woodhull I. "Woodie" Spitler (1916--2001) served with the US Army Air Force Reserve, assigned as a production engineering ...

Mary Sasso. Bess Flemming. Jean Diemer. Did you know these women? Do you know where they are today? If so, Boston Globe reporter Eric Moskowitz would love to hear from you. Moskowitz, who contacted me ...

Reporting from San Diego — Wind tunnels were supposed to be put out of work by now. In 1947, when the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. opened its wind tunnel alongside the San Diego Airport, such ...

Very few times in history can one “draw a line” and remark that “everything after this” will be different. World War II was one of those instances. The war’s brutality and loss certainly changed ...