The USS Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group’s presence in the waters off the Korean Peninsula is enough to dissuade North Korea or any other unfriendly country in the area from…
The Eagle was chosen to test the then-new supersonic Phantom, which was already armed with subsonic De Havilland Sea Vixen all-weather fighters and Blackburn Buccaneer low-level strike aircraft The following…
When Lt. Cdr. Amen downed Grachev’s MiG-15, he made aviation history because he was the first pilot to win an all-jet dogfight. For both sides of a war, the Korean…
IOC enables VMFA-314 to deploy the F-35C onto aircraft carriers where they will be able to support combat operations anywhere in the world. In a time characterized by rapidly evolving…
The photos of this famous F-8 crash landing on the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt prove that an angled deck is better than the straight one. Taken on Oct. 21, 1961,…
The future wing would still feature 44 strike fighters as it does now, but the mix of Block 4 F-35C Lightning II fighters and Block III F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighters…
No one in the E-2C Hawkeye or on the deck was injured in the mishap. On Aug. 23, 2020, a US Navy E-2C Hawkeye command and control aircraft hit a captive air…
The ship’s crew takes advantage of the pilot’s navigational error and makes sure their mistake does not go unnoticed by properly branding the visiting aircraft before departure. Actually, quite a…
‘It was a visual aid for the Landing Signal Officers, aka “Paddles,” pilots who are trained to observe and grade landing passes,’ Andy Burns, Flight Officer / Aviator at United States…
‘I thought I was going to be caught in the middle of a flight deck fire that night. It was pretty scary,’ Robbie Emberson, former Flight Deck ABH aboard USS…