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 ...

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 early 1950s, the U.S. Navy chased a radical solution to the supersonic era: a sea-based interceptor that could take off from the ocean, land on the ocean, and avoid the runway and carrier ...

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 ...

Leidos Holdings, Inc. LDOS recently revealed that its sea systems team has developed Sea Dart, an uncrewed underwater vessel (UUV). Sea Dart is a high-performance, affordable, flexible and adaptable ...

Introduced some 40 years ago, Sea Dart missile, a ship lunched anti-aircraft and anti-missiles with a range of around 80 miles, was fired for the last time on Apr. 13. The test firing, as part of the ...

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 ...