When Everything Goes Wrong in Seconds Few sights are more sobering than an aircraft skidding across the flight deck of a ...
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 ...
Sometimes called "controlled chaos," the flight deck of an aircraft carrier is known as the most dangerous place to work in the military. Movies like "Top Gun" and "Behind Enemy Lines" perpetuate the ...
One of the planes was accidentally shot down by the cruiser USS Gettysburg, which also fired on another Super Hornet.
The USS Nimitz arrived in Hawaii on Saturday, returning to American waters for the first time since the aircraft carrier ...
When an airliner turns off its engines at the gate or ramp, the flight deck doesn’t simply go dark and stay that way.
It was well past time for the US Navy to replace its aging steam catapults with electromagnetic ones—but the new EMALS system ...
Satellite imagery showing CV 18 Fujian at Jiangnan Changxingdao Shipyard in Shanghai. Markings on the deck are indicative of fixed-wing aircraft activity during sea ...
When aircraft are parked on the hangar deck inside the aircraft carrier, their wings are folded tightly, which reduces the aircraft’s footprint by as much as half. This is why modern fighters like the ...