 Consolidated Vultee Aircraft (later Convair) like many other manufacturers, had anticipated the post-war aviation boom would require a commercially viable product.Aircraft engineer and designer Theodore P. "Ted" Hall who had studied the concept of a flying car before World War II, with Consolidated, had unsuccessfully proposed the idea for use in commando-type raids.Following the end of the War, Hall and Tommy Thompson designed and developed the Convair Model 116 featured in "Popular Mechanics" magazine in 1946.