The result was a landing speed just above 50 knots—remarkably slow for any aircraft—and ... test the U-2 from a carrier. In August 1963, in the dead of night, under the cover of darkness ...

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 wing of a Delta Air Lines plane hit the runway at LaGuardia Airport during an unsteady landing on Sunday night. The packed ... safely disembarked from the aircraft, which remained on the ...