Convair’s daring attempt to build the fastest jet of its time led to the creation of the XF-92A, the U.S.’s first delta-wing ...

Most of us only think of Boeing and Airbus when it comes to passenger jet manfacturers. However, several other companies tried their hand at building a jet airliner that would change how we traveled.

A Retired U.S. Air Force navigator and bombardier talks about the Convair B-58A Hustler at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, OH. The B-58 was the first supersonic bomber of the USAF ...

Very rarely does a roadable aircraft, aka a flying car, ever make sense beyond the realm of an 11-year-old grade schooler's imagination. Only in the last decade has the idea become even remotely ...

The internet at large has been ablaze recently with stories about a radio-controlled scale model of a World War II German King Tiger tank whose job was to drill holes in over-pressurized Space Shuttle ...

America at the end of the Second World War was a wildly different place. Brimming with self-confidence after having just defeated the greatest set of rivals the country had ever faced, inundated with ...

There are plane prototypes, and then there's the Convair Sea Dart, which at its heart, was basically just a jet fighter sitting on top of a pair of water skis. Since oceans cover over 70% of the Earth ...

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 ...

The Convair L-13 was a unique post-war multi-purpose liaison aircraft, initially developed by Stinson, designed to prioritize function and exceptional STOL (Short Takeoff and Landing) capability over ...

Frustrated by failures during the prototype phase, Convair rebuilt the F-102 from top to bottom. For an aircraft that had already begun test flights, the changes were profound. But the redesign worked ...

The September 2019 stall and crash of a Convair 440 cargo aircraft near Toledo resulted from oversight by the aircraft’s two fatigued pilots. That is according to the National Transportation Safety ...