Trump fuels renewed battle over Navy combat jets
By: Christopher Diamond Navy officials are standing by plans to buy the F-35 joint strike fighter despite President Trump’s repeated criticism of the costly aircraft and the suggestion that the … More
Daily Archives: April 10, 2017
Things have gone from bad to worse at the Navy’s flight school
By: David B. Larter The head of naval aviation has extended a three-day grounding of all the Navy’s T-45 training jets indefinitely after a group of instructor pilots refused to … More
At last — carrier Ford tastes the sea to begin trials
By: Mark Farm and Christopher P. Cavas NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — After years of delays, billions of dollars and tons of sweat, the new aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford finally got underway … More