Few people believed it could be done. In the early 1960s, the U.S. Navy faced a growing logistics problem as aircraft carriers were deployed farther from supply bases than ever before. Existing ...

In December 2025, California demanded that Tesla stop calling its cars 'self-driving' because, at the most literal and technical level, the vehicles (that retail at the time of writing) require ...

Landing a plane on a small flight deck is far harder than on a large runway—and requires a much larger support crew.

Talk about nerve racking. Captain William Mahoney was piloting an AV-8B Harrier jump jet when his landing gear failed. Watch the dramatic moment the pilot skillfully performs a vertical landing on a ...

With the high risk and complexity of carrier aircraft recovery, reasonable landing scheduling that accounts for special situations is critical to enhancing operational safety and efficiency. To that ...