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 ...

Most of us only think of Boeing and Airbus when it comes to passenger jet manfacturers. However, several other companies ...

A NASA jumbo jet with one of the best window ... “used an infrared telescope in a Convair 990 airplane starting in 1967 to take spectra of the sun, stars and planets at infrared wavelengths ...

NASA had flown KAO since 1974, when it took over for the agency’s first flying telescope, the Galileo Observatory: a modified Convair 990. The end of the SOFIA program appears to mean the end of ...

Normally, those two things don’t overlap at all, but they did for a moment under NASA’s Space Shuttle program. That’s how we got the CR-990 Tire Assault Vehicle, which was built to blow up ...

People can find out on the NASA Web site when to tune in to a certain frequency (145.990 MHz) to hear the space suit broadcast a pre-recorded greeting in several languages (English, French ...

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 ...