Chinese aircraft carrier CNS Fujian returned to a dry dock at Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai from a sea trial on January 7.

The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is accelerating the growth of its carrier aviation force. The highlights have ...

Although his name would be overshadowed by the success of the Wright Brothers, Eugene B. Ely performed the first aircraft launch off a seafaring vessel in November 1910. Ely used a wooden platform ...

Throughout the development of modern aircraft carriers, serious design flaws ... afforded the ability to service nine planes on its flight deck, with 11 stored below and one on each of the ...

China's most advanced but yet-to-be-commissioned aircraft carrier ... the PLANS-18 „Fujian“ has returned from its 6th sea trial. Interesting, there are several mock-ups visible on deck.

Flight deck operations on an aircraft carrier have been compared to a ballet. Anyone who is afforded the opportunity to observe flight deck operations on an aircraft carrier will instantly notice ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

Although technically not called an "aircraft carrier," the Maritime Self-Defense ... to allow fighter jets to take off and land on its flight deck. The Kaga departed from the MSDF Kure Base ...

He further noted that the flight deck and ski-jump are angled to ... spans the original deck means that a traditional aircraft carrier layout is not possible.” Turkish and Iranian officials ...

Images taken after Fujian aircraft carrier's 11-day sea trial indicate its flight deck was used to conduct pilot training.