In 1963, the US Navy tested whether a full sized cargo aircraft could operate from an aircraft carrier by landing and taking ...
Landing a plane on a small flight deck is far harder than on a large runway—and requires a much larger support crew. Aircraft carrier flight decks are arguably the most complex operational environment ...
The USS Gerald R. Ford isn’t just the world’s largest aircraft carrier — it’s a floating city with 4,600 crew members orchestrating one of the most dangerous and precise operations in modern warfare.