When the British experimental jet fighter touched down on the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ocean nearly eight decades ago, it wasn't just a historic landing — it was a giant leap in naval ...

I was fortunate to see a Harrier perform at the Oregon Air Show about ten years ago. The noise of the aircraft, while performing vertical or short take-off and landing (VSTOL) operations ...

TASS/. The pilots of deck-based MiG-29KR fighter jets for the first time started practicing flights with landings on the deck of an aircraft carrier at the Nitka aviation training range in Crimea ...

900 nm The AV-8B Harrier II is the U.S. military’s only short takeoff, vertical landing jet aircraft in current inventory. Originally flown in the late 1960s, the Harrier has undergone a series ...

Five fantastic warbirds from the British isles, take a close look at a few of the best aircraft that British Aerospace ever ...

Envisioned as an option to project US power in a more distributed force, namely across the Pacific, the lightning carrier ... aircraft that we have on board." "As we transition from the Harrier ...