In 1992, a memorial stone was unveiled at Swanbister Bay in Orkney in recognition of his feat. The 100th anniversary of the first time an aircraft touched down on the deck of a moving ship is to ...

The largest aircraft ever to land on an aircraft carrier was the Lockheed C-130, a cargo transport plane never designed for ...

Summary: The USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77), the final Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, represents a century of U.S. naval aviation since the commissioning of the USS Langley in 1922. -With advanced ...

History was made on the flight deck that day when she became the first female U.S. Navy aviator to carrier-qualify in a jet. Now, that history is seen by everyone who takes the lower decks tour ...

A T-45C Goshawk lands on the USS Dwight D Eisenhower (CVN 69) in 2024. The aircraft that replaces the T-45C will not need to land on aircraft carriers, or even land a carrier-style approach.