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.

Long before the Concorde, Convair envisioned a supersonic aircraft derived from the B-58 Hustler. The Convair Sonic Cruiser ...

The 727 wins ‘cool points’ for its tri-jet configuration, three engines handsomely placed below a T-tail. The T-tail, with ...

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 ...

On December 20, 1954, the Convair YF-102A Delta Dagger made its first flight at Edwards Air Force Base, marking a major step ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Convair XFY-1 Pogo is one of many ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...