The United States Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, better known to aviation fans worldwide as the Blue Angels, first took to the skies as a team on June 15, 1946. Legendary Admiral Chester W.

The Sea Vampire made history as the first jet-powered aircraft to land on a carrier in 1945. The UK and US navies developed fighter jets to operate aboard aircraft carriers after World War II. The de ...

The last 125 years have been one of human history's most technologically progressive periods. The Industrial Revolution created the capacity for precise mass production, kick-starting a dramatic shift ...

Landing a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier is borderline surgical. The deck space is tight, typically only about 500 feet long, which is nowhere near enough for a jet going 150 mph to stop by brakes ...

I had the rare opportunity to fly in a historic jet trainer ahead of the Pacific Airshow in October. The T-33 Shooting Star was used to train US Air Force pilots on jet aircraft until the early 1960s.