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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

China’s most advanced carrier the Fujian has returned from its latest sea trial with tyre marks on its deck that suggest more intensive aircraft ... touch down on the flight deck and then ...

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 ...

Much attention has been put on the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s (PLAN’s) growing fleet of aircraft carriers ... and a full longitudinal flight deck, and innovatively applies ...

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