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 ...

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 ...

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).

In another milestone for India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, a MiG-29K fighter undertook night landing on her sprawling deck in the Arabian Sea on Wednesday. The Navy said the ...

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 ...

This night landing on Wednesday is in continuation ... manufactured Advanced Light Helicopters and Light Combat Aircraft. Aircraft carriers are floating air bases which extend the combat ...

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 ...