Ever since the Wright Brothers took to the skies in 1903, people have figured out a way to transform aircraft into weapons. Powered flight ultimately gave the world the first fighter aircraft in 1915 ...
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 ...
The Palm Springs Air Museum recently took possession of a Cold War-era F-102A Delta Dagger, a single-seat interceptor aircraft built as part of the backbone of the U.S. Air Force's air defenses in the ...
The F-102 was not an especially successful aircraft; its performance was unremarkable, and its safety record was poor. But Convair believed they had the seed of a successful airframe in the delta-wing ...
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 ...