A critical system failed as a Super Hornet fighter jet was landing on USS Harry S. Truman. The jet slid off the deck into the ...

Japan's Defense Ministry says Chinese military aircraft took off from and landed on an aircraft carrier in waters between Okinawa's main island and the Daito Islands in southwestern Japan. The ...

Leadership failures, training gaps and malfunctioning equipment drove the preventable loss of three F/A-18 Super Hornets and ...

On December 3, 1945, Lieutenant-Commander Eric Melrose Brown made aviation history by launching and landing a de Havilland ...

A Chinese carrier strike group launched intense air operations near Japan over the weekend as the East Asian neighbours ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Navy has begun to make plans to recover the F-35C fighter jet that crashed Monday after striking the deck of an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea. The jet is the most ...

On November 23, 2012, China’s domestically developed J-15 carrier-based fighter jet successfully conducted its first landing on the deck of the Liaoning, the country’s first aircraft carrier. Shortly ...

Whereas a land-based pilot can be expected to “grease” the runway, carrier landings demand that naval pilots make a controlled impact—essentially a crash aboard the deck. Landing on an aircraft ...

The eVTOL aircraft offers both automatic and manual flight modes. Its automatic mode enables smart route planning, as well as ...

For most mere mortals, the act of landing a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier is beyond comprehension. Experienced pilots count it among the most difficult maneuvers to perform. Even if we look at ...

The America-class Landing Helicopter Assault (LHA) ships are transforming the U.S. Marine Corps from a ground-heavy force ...