Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An F/A-18 lands on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman.US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd ...

Few people believed it could be done. In the early 1960s, the U.S. Navy faced a growing logistics problem as aircraft ...

For decades, landing a jet on a moving aircraft carrier was considered one of the most difficult tasks in aviation, requiring constant throttle adjustments and razor sharp precision as the deck ...

With the high risk and complexity of carrier aircraft recovery, reasonable landing scheduling that accounts for special situations is critical to enhancing operational safety and efficiency. To that ...

As the fighter jet landed on the aircraft carrier, a critical piece of the landing system blew apart, shot across the machinery room, slammed into equipment a sailor had been sitting at only moments ...