Landing on an aircraft carrier defines Naval aviation. But new pilots won't have to do it until later in their training.

This historic World War II footage shows U.S. Navy aircraft returning from combat and landing on carrier decks at sea. You ...

China’s CATOBAR carrier Fujian just flew the stealthy J-35B, sharpening questions about the U.S. Navy’s reliance on a ...

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 ...

Despite the attempts to streamline the carrier’s delivery process, delays remain due to issues with two critical systems: its ...

Xinhua News Agency reports that the Chinese navy has had take off arrested landing tests of the J-15T, J-35 fighter jets and the KJ-600 early warning and ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to official Chinese media, Beijing is planning to develop four to five aircraft carriers, including a nuclear-powered carrier ...

The Indonesian Navy has limited experience in long-range task force or flotilla operations beyond the EEZ, the hallmark of a ...

Aircraft carriers are capable of launching and recovering jets in some of the most challenging environments on Earth. But the one thing that doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to outsiders: why ...

A landing system known as the MAGIC CARPET has led the Navy to remove carrier landings from the requirements for student pilots. They now learn the skill later in training on combat aircraft. Naval ...