On December 20, 1954, the Convair YF-102A Delta Dagger made its first flight at Edwards Air Force Base, marking a major step toward America's first operational supersonic interceptor and the dawn of ...

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 and ...

We often write about great American warplanes, like the modern F-35 or F-22. The F-14 makes our list of impressive warbirds. The F-4 Phantom was a gem and Vietnam-era workhorse, and the P-51 Mustang ...

Out from the U.S. Air Force recently went a brief announcement: the U.S. was sending the first North American F-100 Super Sabrejet fighters to units in Europe; three demonstration planes were already ...

Consolidated Vultee, whose giant B60 lost out to Boeing’s 6B-52 as the Air Forces’ intercontinental bomber of the future, this week won a contract that may put it out ahead in fighter planes. It got ...

Frustrated by failures during the prototype phase, Convair rebuilt the F-102 from top to bottom. For an aircraft that had already begun test flights, the changes were profound. But the... The F-102 ...

The South Dakota Air & Space Museum will be providing a static F-102 Delta Dagger for the Black Hills Community Appreciation Day. The historic aircraft has recently been painted to reflect its ...