What You Need to Know: In 1969, the USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, ... accidentally fired and triggered a chain reaction of explosions on the flight deck.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 18, 2018 ” A business unit of General Atomics has conducted a demonstration of flight deck taxi and launch-and-recovery operations aboard an aircraft carrier using the ...

China's most advanced but yet-to-be-commissioned aircraft carrier, CNS Fujian, returned to a shipyard on Tuesday following a flight test at sea, according to ship spotters' photos.. Why It Matters ...

The de Havilland Vampire fighter jet successfully landed on the HMS Ocean aircraft carrier in December 1945. See photos of the historic flight.

When people think of aircraft carriers, they often picture fighter jets taking off and landing, but there's more going on than that. The SH-60 Sea Hawk is the workhorse helicopter of the U.S. Navy ...

Also seen on the flight deck are mock-ups for various aircraft types and positional markings, which suggest that the PLA Navy (PLAN) continues to refine deck handling procedures ahead of Fujian 's ...

An F/A-18F Super Hornet, attached to ‘Red Rippers’ of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 11, takes off from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) on Dec ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An F/A-18 fighter jet slipped off the hanger deck of an aircraft carrier deployed to the Middle East, as sailors were towing the aircraft into place in the hangar bay of the ...