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 ...

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.

In early 1964, deep inside Convair’s San Diego facilities, a small group of engineers began work in near-total secrecy on a new kind of aircraft tailored for the growing conflict in Vietnam. The ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Sea Dart program was ultimately unsuccessful. During a flight demonstration for U.S. Naval officials, a test pilot passed the Sea Dart’s never-exceed speed, and ...

In the late 1940s, there was a mismatch between jet-powered airplanes and aircraft carriers. Early jet planes were considered ill-suited for operations on aircraft carriers. They generally needed ...

Atlas 4A LaunchAtlas 6A LaunchAtlas Factory ProcessingThe San Diego Air and Space Museum in Balboa Park is unveiling an exhibit on the Atlas missile, the booster that evolved into this country’s first ...

These days, when even low-tier celebrities like influencers have their own private jet, maybe ownership of a personal aircraft doesn’t seem like such a big deal. But back in the ‘70s, it was the ...

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 US Federal Aviation Administration should issue warnings to operators of Convair 580s to close shut-off valves of fuel tanks not being used during crossfeed operations, according to a US National ...