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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

In the 1950s, the US Marine Corps needed an aircraft capable of providing close air support and operating from roads near the battlefield. In 1959, the service developed a new concept for such an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...