In our last item about seaplanes here in Sea Month, we looked at a U.S. Navy flying boat that nearly carried nuclear weapons into battle. But the Martin P6M SeaMaster was not the only attempt by the U ...
On this date in 1954, Convair’s experimental Sea Dart supersonic seaplane exploded in a fireball over San Diego Bay on it’s first test run, killing test pilot Charles “Chuck” Richbourg. Among the ...
Here’s What You Need to Know: The Sea Dart program was ultimately unsuccessful. Convair’s Sea Dart couldn’t land on aircraft carriers—but it could land in the ocean next to them. It was also the only ...
Click to open image viewer. Seaplanes (aircraft that use some form of pontoon rather than wheels) have played a major role in the development of aircraft. Waterborne craft were developed by many ...
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The jet that was supposed to replace aircraft carriers
In the 1950s, at the height of Cold War innovation, the U.S. Navy pursued a radical idea: a supersonic fighter that didn’t ...
From the 1920s into World War II several nations developed high-performance floatplane aircraft. Indeed, some were among the fastest aircraft of their time. During World War II, the British evaluated ...
In the late 1940s, there was a mismatch between jet-powered airplanes and aircraft carriers. Early jet planes were considered ill-suited for operations on aircraft carriers. They generally needed ...
Click to open image viewer. Seaplanes (aircraft that use some form of pontoon rather than wheels) have played a major role in the development of aircraft. Waterborne craft were developed by many ...
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