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.

The Blackbird grew out of Cold War panic that the U-2 would soon become too vulnerable to survive over the Soviet Union.

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 ...

The Convair Model 48 Charger was a 1960s military prototype designed for extreme versatility, capable of operating from aircraft carriers, unimproved runways, and water while transporting troops and ...

The B-58 was never just an aircraft program. Convair was expected to deliver an entire weapons system, coordinating vast ...

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 ...

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 ...

South African investigators have revealed that the crew of a Convair 340 were unsure which of the aircraft's two engines had caught fire before it crashed while attempting to return to Wonderboom ...