 Consolidated Vultee Aircraft (later Convair) was seeking entry into the post-war aviation boom with a mainstream flying car.Theodore P. "Ted" Hall had studied the concept of a flying car before World War II, with Consolidated unsuccessfully proposing 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 Flying Car featured in "Popular Mechanics" magazine in 1946, which consisted of a two-seat car body, powered by a rear-mounted engine, with detachable monoplane wings and tail, fitted with their own tractor configuration Franklin 4A4 engine driving a two bladed wooden propeller.