The Convair F-102 Delta Dagger, part of the “Century Series,” was America’s first all-weather supersonic jet fighter, and the first American fighter to feature a delta wing. Entering service ...
It got the first production contract in the U.S. for a delta-wing jet fighter, the F-102. The new 20,000-lb. plane will be powered by Pratt & Whitney’s J57 jet (TIME, May 28, 1951) and will be ...
In fact, Global Times, well understood to be a mouthpiece of the Chinese government, quoted Fu as saying that the medium-sized J-35A uses a tailplane wing configuration similar to the US’ F-35 that ...
The Soviet-era MiG-23 "Flogger," designed as an affordable, swing-wing ... fighter and therefore didn't build into it the sort of effort and quality control that would be expected for a fighter ...