In our last item about seaplanes here in Sea Month, we looked at a U.S. Navy flying boat that nearly carried nuclear weapons into battle. But the Martin P6M SeaMaster was not the only attempt by the U ...

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 ...

From the 1920s into World War II several nations developed high-performance floatplane aircraft. Indeed, some were among the fastest aircraft of their time. During World War II, the British evaluated ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Sea Dart program was ultimately unsuccessful. Convair’s Sea Dart couldn’t land on aircraft carriers—but it could land in the ocean next to them. It was also the only ...

On this date in 1954, Convair’s experimental Sea Dart supersonic seaplane exploded in a fireball over San Diego Bay on it’s first test run, killing test pilot Charles “Chuck” Richbourg. Among the ...

When Floyd B. Odium’s Atlas Corp. bought control of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft in 1947, it looked as if Speculator Odium had made a mistake. That year Convair lost $32.4 million on its C-24O ...

In the early 50s, an impossible new aircraft took to the sky. A interceptor like no other that could be deployed from ...

Throughout the 1950s, the Navy explored various technologies in an attempt to give the service an advantage in the nuclear era. Here's What You Need To Remember: After spending more than $500 ...