In the late 1940s, the US Navy experienced a significant 80% weight loss, an event that nearly jeopardized its operational capacity. This episode illustrates the resilience of the Navy, as the phrase ...

MAGIC CARPET (Maritime Augmented Guidance with Integrated Controls for Carrier Approach and Recovery Precision Enabling ...

There will be field carrier landing practice operations for aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island Complex this week.

The surviving crew of the USS Frank E. Evans believed they were at war. But the names of their shipmates aren’t on the ...

After pilots have made a specific score on landing and taking off during ... in the middle of the ocean, on an aircraft carrier, in the middle of the night. Lieutenant Andrew Mueller, F-18 ...

Pilots of fixed-wing aircraft from Carrier Air Wing 5 — F ... three during the day and three at night — with at least seven touch-and-go landings. Junior pilots typically undergo more ...

Truman U.S. conducts strikes into Yemen as Houthis claim attacks on aircraft carrier Following crash ... the wire that slows down the aircraft upon landing, and the jet then continued to ...

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 ...

In addition to reproducing the look of both vehicles, the Lego Icons Shuttle Carrier Aircraft features landing gear that ... space on the latest missions, night sky and more!

The US last week deployed its Nimitz aircraft carrier group to the Philippine Sea, where it is practicing day and night flight operations and testing ... of Thitu Reefs of the Spratly Islands — by ...

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).

Investigators confirmed Thursday night that they had recovered ... operated by now-defunct regional carrier Colgan Air rammed into a house during landing near Buffalo Niagara International Airport.