Sometimes called cities at sea or floating airfields, aircraft carriers provide some of the most challenging flight conditions in modern aviation. In addition to a moving runway that may also buck on ...

This stunning photograph shows a pilot ejecting from a Vought F-8 Crusader, a single-engine carrier-based jet capable of supersonic speeds. During a crash landing, the pilot bravely manages to eject ...

HMS Queen Elizabeth was originally supposed to get an angled flight deck — and then the plan quietly disappeared. Why did the Royal Navy move forward with a straight-deck design in an era when angled ...