Landing on an aircraft carrier defines Naval aviation. But new pilots won't have to do it until later in their training.

Lawmakers are investigating whether the Navy ignored evidence of widespread traumatic brain injuries. For some pilots, the ...

An F/A-18F Super Hornet uses MAGIC CARPET technology while performing a touch-and-go on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier George Washington on June 24, 2021. The technology reduces the burden on ...

Federal agents and local police stormed the cockpit of a Delta Air Lines flight that had landed just moments earlier and arrested the co-pilot on the runway of the San Francisco International Airport.

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 ...

Students training to fly F/A-18s, F-35s and EA-18Gs are no longer required to land on a carriers before receiving their ...