Naval aviators believe they are the best pilots on earth — just ask them — and the primary reason they cite is hard to argue with: they land on aircraft carriers. Whether in calm seas and sunshine or ...

An F/A-18F Super Hornet uses MAGIC CARPET technology while performing a touch-and-go on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier George Washington on June 24, 2021. The technology reduces the burden on ...

Naval aviators kicked off 13 days of carrier-landing practice Monday on Iwo Jima as the aircraft carrier USS George Washington prepares for its first deployment since returning to Japan in November.

A critical system failed as a fighter jet was landing on an aircraft carrier earlier this year. The $60 million F/A-18 fell off the deck of the USS Harry S. Truman and into the Red Sea. A new Navy ...

Landing a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier is borderline surgical. The deck space is tight, typically only about 500 feet long, which is nowhere near enough for a jet going 150 mph to stop by brakes ...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) initiated a program in December 1979, known as the Cargo-Experimental (C-X) competition, as a means of finding a new strategic airlift aircraft that was ...