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 ...

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 ...

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 redesign worked ...

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 ...