Beechcraft, a renowned name in general aviation, is synonymous with engineering excellence and innovation. Among its wide ...

The year is 1961. USA needs an edge agaist the soviets. They turned to military supplier Convair, who at the time was looking into various applications of nuclear power in aircraft for the US navy.

In May 1960, the Convair 880 entered into service with Delta Air Lines (DL) under the slightly updated designation of 880-22m ...

The Convair Model 118, also known as the Hall Flying Automobile, was bolted to an air-borne plane in 1947 and unfortunately did not survive the flight. Excitement swirled around the first ...

I visited an airplane model factory in Southern China where airplane die cast models were made. The staff walked me through ...

Convair, originally Consolidated Aircraft Corporation (it eventually merged with Vultee, creating Convair) conceived of the B-36 having four bomb bays that could carry a variety of weapons ...

Seventy-five years ago, a Douglas C-54D Skymaster disappeared en route from Alaska to Montana. No trace of its crew and passengers, including a pregnant mother and her young son, has ever been found ...

The F-102 Delta Dagger was built by the now-defunct Convair (Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation) Division of General Dynamics, which also made the B-36 Peacemaker and B-58 Hustler bombers ...

It says the plane Shatner's flying in is either a twin-engined Convair or a four-engined Douglas DC-6 or DC-7. All of which would have been pressurized. The higher a plane flies, the lower the air ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found no evidence of foul play and blamed the crash on errors by the pilot, who failed to retract the plane’s spoilers, or air brakes, at the critical ...