But the redesign worked. The Convair F-102 Delta Dagger was the first supersonic interceptor, and the first delta-wing fighter, ever to become operational in the U.S. Air Force. An early member of ...

Ninety per cent bored stiff, nine per cent frozen stiff and one per cent scared stiff. That was - historian Andy Robertshaw insists - the experience of most soldiers in the First World War.