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 ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Sea Dart program was ultimately unsuccessful. During a flight demonstration for U.S. Naval officials, a test pilot passed the Sea Dart’s never-exceed speed, and ...

There are plane prototypes, and then there's the Convair Sea Dart, which at its heart, was basically just a jet fighter sitting on top of a pair of water skis. Since oceans cover over 70% of the Earth ...

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 ...

In the 1950s, amidst the tensions of the Cold War, the U.S. Navy embarked on an ambitious project to reshape naval aviation. The star of this groundbreaking effort was the XF2Y-1 Sea Dart, a daring ...

RESTON, Va., April 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Leidos announced a new capability from its sea systems team called Sea Dart, a high-performance, low-cost, flexible and adaptable uncrewed undersea vessel ...