By: Sam LaGrone The first CMV-22B Osprey assigned to Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron (VRM) 30 lands at Naval Air Station North Island on June 22, 2020. US Navy Photo The first … More
By JERRY HENDRIX The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Midway, with assigned Carrier Air Wing 5, entering Subic Bay, Philippines, 1981 (PHCS Steven Harris, USN/U.S. Defense Imagery Photo/VIRIN DN-ST-84-00324) A strategic design update … More
By: Megan Eckstein Lt. Joshua Chester, a Navy pilot from Lorton, Virginia, poses in front of an F/A-18E Super Hornet, assigned to the “Sunliners” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 81 on … More
By Jon Harper Boeing photo Boeing has delivered the first set of souped-up F/A-18E/F Block III Super Hornets to the Navy for flight tests, the company announced June 17. One of … More
An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned launches from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman in 2018. The Navy plans to stop buying the Super Hornet in 2022, but Congress wants … More
Cmdr. Joshua Fuller, left, and Capt. Vincent Segars, the commanding officer of Naval Aviation Schools Command, died Wednesday in a private plane crash. (Navy) The head of the Navy’s Aviation Schools … More
Loren ThompsonSenior Contributor Aerospace & Defense Some ideas never go out of fashion, no matter how unfounded they are. One such idea is the belief that America’s large-deck, nuclear-powered aircraft … More
The first F/A-18 Super Hornet for the Navy’s Blue Angels demonstration team was delivered for testing and evaluation, June 3, 2020. The world’s largest aircraft maker, reeling from evaporating demand … More