A warship and gunship in one, the Convair Model 49 was designed to dominate both air and sea with heavy fire support. But why did this ambitious hybrid never take off? Was it too advanced or simply ...

The company also wanted a slice of the civilian market, so it introduced the Convair 880 and slightly longer 990 Coronado a year apart. However, these jets arrived after Boeing and Douglas started ...

In order to better combat that threat, the Pentagon devised the Convair B-36 “Peacemaker ... Britain was going to fall to Hitler’s war machine. By the time the Americans conceived of ...