A landing system known as the MAGIC CARPET has led the Navy to remove carrier landings from the requirements for student pilots. They now learn the skill later in training on combat aircraft. Naval ...

For naval aviators, combat missions over hostile territory are less dangerous than the act of landing back on a moving carrier. Since World War II, half of all naval aviation mishaps have happened ...

Naval aviators believe they are the best pilots on earth — just ask them — and the primary reason they cite is hard to argue with: they land on aircraft carriers. Whether in calm seas and sunshine or ...