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 the perennial game of aeronautical anatomy-waving contests, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird wins every time. All the world's achievements in aviation in the last 120 years don't hit home in most ...

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 ...

Key Points - The Convair Model 200 was a supersonic, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fighter jet proposed for the US Navy in the 1970s. -It was designed to operate from a new class of small "Sea ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...