A former U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B-turned-F-35B Lighting II pilot details efforts to develop a formal landing signal officer (LSO) school to help service members land the advanced fighter jet on ...

An F-35C Lightning II assigned to the Salty Dogs of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23 lands on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) on Aug. 15, 2016, in ...

Landing signal officers work with the ... If the U.S. Navy can successfully control Hornet fighters through the toughest part of flight operations—landing on on aircraft carrier—it seems ...

E-2C Hawkeye Night Carrier Landing from the cockpit. With radio comms. The following video was filmed on Apr. 16, 2013, and shows a night (let's say a sunset) carrier arrested landing by a VAW-121 ...

Raytheon Company has received a $232.8 million contract for the system development and demonstration phase of the global positioning system-based Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) ...

The F-35C aircraft has an internal “hook” embedded in the aircraft to preserve its stealth configuration, which then opens to catch the cable upon landing. Kris Osborn is the defense editor ...

Key Points and Summary on F-14 Tomcat Fighter Accident During the F-14 Tomcat’s inaugural carrier qualifications aboard the USS Enterprise in June 1974, a single landing mishap damaged four of the ...

The aircraft carrier Nimitz completed its 350,000th arrested landing on Saturday, marking a historic milestone for the oldest-serving U.S.-commissioned aircraft carrier in the world, according a ...

Today, aircraft carries are the most formidable defense in the sea. Here's the story behind the first carriers with the game-changing full flat landing deck.

WASHINGTON — The oldest active aircraft carrier in the Navy has reached a major milestone — 350,000 arrested plane landings in nearly a half-century, the service announced.

An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) went overboard on Tuesday during an attempted landing on the aircraft carrier, a defense official confirmed to USNI News. The two ...