The USS United States (CVA-58) was a radical, flush-deck supercarrier designed in the late 1940s to launch heavy nuclear ...
The potency of the US Navy’s air power increased at a bewildering rate during the second world war. From hair-raising early exploits against a superior opponent, ever more capable military aircraft ...
One of the planes was accidentally shot down by the cruiser USS Gettysburg, which also fired on another Super Hornet.
At 2:10 p.m. on December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers comprising Flight 19 take off from the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida on a routine three-hour training mission.
Correspondent photo / Maurita Hoffman George Lutza, 99, of Youngstown, served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was trained as an aviation machinist. YOUNGSTOWN — George Lutza grew up on the ...
Eighty years ago, five planes vanished during a training run off the Florida coast. A patrol plane sent to search for the men ...
Pentagon delays decision on Navy's F/A-XX stealth fighter despite Congress adding $1 billion to the budget, leaving carriers ...
During the Battle of Midway, a crippled U.S. Army B-26 bomber flew so close over Japan’s flagship Akagi that its crew ...
China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) remains one of only three operators of long-range strategic bombers – along with the United States Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Forces. It is ...