Being an F-18 pilot takes hours of training and practice. After pilots have made a specific score on landing and taking off ...

U.S. Navy pilots are preparing for the USS George Washington’s inaugural patrol from its new homeport in Japan, conducting ...

Landing on an aircraft carrier is widely viewed as one of aviation ... a steel cable with the plane’s tailhook (unsurprisingly, night traps are considered particularly terrifying).

Pacific, U.S. Navy F-35C Lightning II fighter jets have, for the first time, conducted Field Carrier Landing Practices (FCLPs ...

The USS George Washington returned to its home port in Japan in November for a forward-deployment in the western Pacific Ocean.

Shortly after commissioning in August 1945 — the same month Japan surrendered after the US dropped two nuclear bombs — the ship was upgraded to conduct night fighter operations, equipped with ...

Naval aviators kicked off carrier-landing practice on Iwo Jima as the USS George Washington prepares for its first deployment ...

came in for a night landing around 9 p.m. local time when the hook of the aircraft failed to catch the arresting wire on the aircraft carrier. “The arrestment failed, causing the aircraft to go ...