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The F/A-18 E/F ‘Super Hornet’ Fighter Has a Message for the Navy
The F/A-18E/F Super Hornet was born from urgency: replace aging Navy jets, fly from tight decks, and do everything reasonably ...
A landing system known as the MAGIC CARPET has led the Navy to remove carrier landings from the requirements for student pilots. They now learn the skill later in training on combat aircraft. Naval ...
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. 16, ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - An F/A-18 fighter jet landing on the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the Red Sea went overboard, forcing its two pilots to eject, a defense official told The ...
China’s newest aircraft carrier may only be able to conduct air operations at about 60% the rate of a 50-year-old US Navy ...
Whereas a land-based pilot can be expected to “grease” the runway, carrier landings demand that naval pilots make a controlled impact—essentially a crash aboard the deck. Landing on an aircraft ...
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