This Navy admiral just bagged his 1,000th landing on an aircraft carrier
With a thunderous bang, a Navy F/A-18 slammed onto the deck of the USS Carl Vinson on Feb. 16, snagging a steel wire with its ...
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A U-2 Spy Plane On an Aircraft Carrier? The CIA Tried It Once
The result was a landing speed just above 50 knots—remarkably slow for any aircraft—and ... test the U-2 from a carrier. In August 1963, in the dead of night, under the cover of darkness ...
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Weekly flight operations scheduled
There will be field carrier landing practice operations for aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island Complex this week.
Which European Airport Has The Most Runways?
The airport that is considered to have the most runways in the world is Edwards Air Force Base in California. The military ...
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Delta plane wing hits runway during botched landing at NYC’s LaGuardia Airport
The wing of a Delta Air Lines plane hit the runway at LaGuardia Airport during an unsteady landing on Sunday night. The packed ... safely disembarked from the aircraft, which remained on the ...
Several flights take off from Heathrow Airport after shutdown leads to travel chaos
London’s Heathrow Airport was completely shut down Friday because of a power outage due to a large fire nearby, causing ...
‘It’s quite embarrassing’: China-bound flight turns around after pilot forgets passport
A United Airlines jet flying from Los Angeles to Shanghai had to turn around last weekend after it was discovered one of the ...
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Wing of Delta plane strikes runway during landing at LaGuardia Airport
FLUSHING, Queens (WABC) -- The wing of a Delta plane struck the runway as it was coming in to land at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday night. The plane's "left wing struck runway while landing" and the ...
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LPIA’s ‘unusual delays’ as flights three times longer
LYNDEN Pindling International Airport. # Airlines yesterday warned travellers to brace for flights to take up to three times’ ...