The F-106 performed well, with Mach 2.3 speed, a 57,000-foot service ceiling, and a 29,000-foot per minute climbing rate. Yet it never saw action in combat. Recently, The National Interest explained ...

Throughout the Cold War, the United States Air Force continued to develop interceptor aircraft to address the threat from Soviet bombers. This included such aircraft as the Convair F-102 and the North ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The aircraft was also notable because it used one of the first autonomous computer systems, the SAGE defense system. That is why the Delta Dart was the last dedicated ...

NASM copy 39088019675669 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Birth of the F-102B -- Early development -- Flight testing the new interceptor -- The F-106 aircraft -- MA-1 and age ...

Part of an F-106 that crashed in 1964. The wreckage is in a stand of trees that hasn't been harvested—or visited—in 50 years. Last June, 23-year-old Austin Lunn-Rhue set off from Colorado to ...

During a training mission from Malmstrom AFB on Feb. 2, 1970, this F-106 entered an uncontrollable flat spin forcing the pilot, Maj. (Ret.) Gary Foust, to eject. Unpiloted, the aircraft recovered on ...