China’s newest aircraft carrier may only be able to conduct air operations at about 60% the rate of a 50-year-old US Navy carrier, two former US carrier officers say, a substantial combat limitation ...

Landing a plane on an aircraft carrier is hard, especially if you're flying the jet aviators have declared the most difficult ...

The Deadly Precision of Aircraft Carrier Flight Decks The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is widely regarded as one o ...

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 ...

Welcome back to The Daily Aviation for a feature on what it takes to make the most difficult aircraft landing in the world..

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 ...

MiG-29 fighter jets, the strike fighter aircraft of the Indian Navy, use the short landing strip of the aircraft carrier, ...

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has confirmed its selection for the US Navy's Collaborative Combat Aircraft programme, ...

Chinese military aircraft conducted electromagnetic catapult-assisted takeoffs and arrested landings aboard the aircraft ...

The retirement of Spain’s Harrier jets without an alternative puts Madrid in an unusual situation: by the mid-2030s, it may have an aircraft carrier without any fixed-wing aircraft to operate. In ...