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.

The F-106 Delta Dart was the primary all-weather interceptor aircraft for the United States Air Force from the 1960s through the 1980s. The Convair F-106A was a very extensively revised version of ...

The story of the F-106 in a cornfield. An unpiloted aircraft recovers on its own from an uncontrollable flat spin and makes a gentle landing in a cornfield.. In the drones era, this could be an ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The F-106 Delta Dart proved to be the last dedicated Air Force interceptor, and the aircraft were gradually retired by the early 1980s.Some of those aircraft ...

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 ...

By most accounts, the F-106 Delta Dart was a pretty great plane. It was fast and maneuverable and would serve the Air Force for 30 years between 1958 and 1988.

Maximum speed: 1,525 mph Maximum range: 1,800 miles First flight: December 25, 1956 First introduced into service in 1959, the Convair F-106 was designed to i ntercept and destroy Soviet bombers ...

The six U.S. Air Force aircraft that make up what is known as the Century Series—the North American F-100 through the Convair F-106—were the hottest jets of the cold war.

Under the contract, AEL will convert old F-106 aircraft to remote- controlled drones used in Air Force pilot training and weapons systems testing. “This is an important opportunity ...

Advances in unmanned aircraft systems combined with next generation sensors will contribute to the challenge of feeding our future world in a sustainable manner, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln ...

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.