To imagine landing on an aircraft carrier, picture falling 70 stories ... swath of sky roughly 135 feet tall by 3,300 feet wide. At night, pilots have more time to make course corrections ...

The result was a landing speed just above 50 knots—remarkably slow for any aircraft—and ... test the U-2 from a carrier. In ...

The only road in or out, so to speak, is the C-2, landing and lifting off with care packages of up to 10,000 pounds or 28 people at a time. Whenever a U.S. aircraft carrier leaves port ...

The designers of China’s J-36 stealth fighter are working on a computer system that will help pilots achieve the difficult and dangerous manoeuvre of landing a sixth-generation jet on a moving ...

ABOARD THE USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CNN) --When President Bush arrives Thursday aboard the aircraft carrier USS ... is scheduled to spend the night on the carrier, which is based in Everett ...