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 ...

George W. Bush was the first U.S. President to go supersonic. Discover the F-102 Delta Dagger, the dangerous "Century Series" fighter he flew during the Cold War.

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 ...

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 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 ...