Landing a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier is borderline surgical. The deck space is tight, typically only about 500 feet long, which is nowhere near enough for a jet going 150 mph to stop by brakes ...

The Sea Vampire made history as the first jet-powered aircraft to land on a carrier in 1945. The UK and US navies developed fighter jets to operate aboard aircraft carriers after World War II. The de ...

A regularly scheduled passenger plane can give a bit of a bumpy ride during even the most textbook landing. But a deadstick landing is a different beast entirely. The Collins Dictionary provides frank ...

An F/A-18 Super Hornet landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman.US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Michael Gomez An F/A-18 fighter jet went overboard ...

The monocular visual measurement method for autonomous landing guidance in unknown structured scenes involves scene analysis, selecting landing region, and estimating relative poses. In recent years, ...

When you’re flying in a small plane, the possibility of the pilot becoming incapacitated is usually filed in the very-unlikely-to-happen category. But it happens, and with no other pilot on board, ...

The aircraft is powered by the fuel-injected 200 hp Lycoming IO-360-A1D6 engine, a significant step up from the standard 180 ...

PANAMA CITY — A plane at Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport had to make an emergency landing after a reported landing-gear malfunction on Jan. 2. The vintage Navion aircraft performed a ...

Zinnia Maldonado joins the CBS News New York team from CBS Boston. While there, she had the opportunity to cover an array of national and breaking news stories such as the Boston Marathon, the Harmony ...