#Convair Model 48 Charger

[lonestarflight]

Concept art of Convair Model 48 Charger with pontoons. The Model 48 was a prototype light attack and observation aircraft of the 1960s, developed to meet a requirement for a dedicated counter-insurgency (COIN) aircraft. It lost to the North America OV-10 Bronco.

Date: February 26, 1964

San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive: 87904366

[usafphantom2]

23_0029579 Convair Negative Image by SDASM Archives Via Flickr: 87012877 :Piction ID--Convair Model 48 Charger concept 01/29/1964---Please tag these photos so information can be recorded.---- Digitization of this image made possible by a grant from NEH: NEH and the San Diego Air and Space Museum

[airmanisr]

Convair Model 48 Charger by Willard Womack Via Flickr: This was Convair's prototype light attack and observation airplane. It lost to the North American OV-10. Only one was built and it crashed on a test flight, due to pilot error, in 1965. It was the last plane built by Convair.

[greatmagazinestudent-world]

Convair Model 48 Charger

[bigglesworld]

Convair Model 48 Charger. Observation and light attack AC

[fuckyeahwarplanes]

[airmanisr]

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

[bigglesworld]

Convair Model 48 Charger. Observation and light attack AC. Prototype first flew in 1965

[greatmagazinestudent-world]

General Dynamics Model 48 Charger Convair

[airmanisr]

Three COINs in the File Cabinet by Lockheed Martin Via Flickr: The 1964 US tri-service (Navy-Air Force-Army) Light Armed Reconnaissance Aircraft, or LARA, competition came about as a response to a Marine Corps requirement for an aircraft specifically designed for counterinsurgency, or COIN, operations. Nine competitors responded to the request for proposal, including designs from Martin, Lockheed, and Convair—none of which would win. The Martin design, shown as a full-scale mockup, featured and inverted V empennage with boundary layer controls. The hot engine jet exhausts would have been passed through stainless steel ducts to the tail and ejected across the lower ruddervator surface. The Lockheed CL-760 design, also shown as a full-scale mockup, featured a crew of two in tandem and could carry eight fully-armed infantry soldiers in the fuselage. The main landing gear would have retracted into fuselage blisters, which also held four 7.62 mm guns. A variety of weapons and pods could have been carried on underwing weapons racks. Convair built a prototype of its Model 48 Charger, which could carry six combat troops or eight with the optional personnel pod attached to the bottom of the fuselage. Company test pilot Johnny Knebel made the first flight of the Charger on 25 November 1964. Company, Air Force, Army, and Navy test pilots totaling roughly 176 flight hours before the prototype was destroyed in an accident on 19 October 1965, during its 196th flight. The Navy, as lead procurement agency, chose the North American Rockwell design, which entered production as the OV-10 Bronco. lockheedmartin.com/codeone

[airmanisr]

Ray Wagner Collection Image by SDASM Archives Via Flickr: PictionID:45403862 - Catalog:16_006642 - Title:Convair Model 48 Charger Convair photo - Filename:16_006642.TIF - Image from the Ray Wagner Collection. Ray Wagner was Archivist at the San Diego Air and Space Museum for several years and is an author of several books on aviation --- ---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum

[airmanisr]

General Dynamics Model 48 Charger Convair photo by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives on Flickr.

[airmanisr]

Willard, Martin Collection _000101 by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives on Flickr.