Witness the bold innovation of the Convair XFY-1, a 1950s fighter aircraft that launched straight up like a rocket and hovered like a helicopter. It was an era of daring ideas—and this vertical ...

Convair was forced back to the drawing board. The F-102’s designers reimagined it in a “Coke Bottle” configuration, in which the fuselage was lengthened and pinched in the middle.

While Douglas, Boeing, Martin, and Convair had each contributed products to America’s postwar airliner market, none of them had decided to follow through on a commercial transport design with ...

The De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 – formerly the Bombardier Q400 regional turboprop – is another ... announcing that it was replacing ageing Convair 580s with four Dash 8-400s from Conair ...

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 ...

CINCINNATI, Feb. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- GE Aerospace (NYSE:GE) announced today that the Catalyst turboprop engine has been certified by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The FAR ...

(Photo: KF Aerospace) KF Aerospace is moving quickly to replace its fleet of 70-year-old turboprop freighters that provide feeder ... KF will also add two containerized ATR72-500 freighters to replace ...

(Photo: KF Aerospace) Purolator Inc., Canada’s largest integrated parcel carrier, will upgrade its British Columbia feeder network by replacing three aging Convair freighter aircraft with three ...

Built from scavenged parts, including turboprop engines and a turbojet for ... as well as turboprops from a Lockheed XFV-1 and Convair XFY-1 Pogo experimental fighter. The result was a ...

The XFY-1 used the powerful Allison YT-40 turboprop engine ... a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Reserve and a Convair engineering test pilot, in the cockpit. He got over 60 hours of tethered ...

Nicknamed the Metropolitan, Convair introduced the 440 in 1954 to compete directly with other turboprop-powered aircraft in the regional airline industry. This aircraft included several upgrades, ...

In some countries, turboprop aircraft are commonplace. However, in the US, they seem to be far less common these days. Sure, there are a handful of US carriers out there operating turboprops.