Navy pilots see landing on the aircraft carrier as an administrative task: “It’s like filling out paperwork, you have to do it in order to do what you really want to do,” Lt. Cmdr. Matthew ...

From the last three quarters of a mile all the way to touchdown the pilot approaching a U.S. aircraft carrier can rely on LSO (Landing Signal Officers - ...

A new carrier landing technology allows jet wings to better control lift, making landings for fighter pilots safer and more precise, according to Military.com. The system, formerly known as ...

The Precision Landing Mode – a software tool added to the jet’s flight control and mission computers that significantly reduces the number of inputs a pilot has to make on final approach ...

The process is now becoming easier, more efficient and ultimately less risky for pilots on carriers because the Navy’s new Joint Precision Approach and Landing System, or JPALS, has been ...

For Capt. James McCall, commanding officer of Carrier Air Wing 8 aboard the Bush, one of the key improvements to the status quo that Precision Landing Modes officers is the luxury of fewer power ...

Landing an aircraft on a moving vessel requires a particular kind of precision and know-how that very few human beings can execute with significant technological support. Believe it or not, one ...

Northrop Grumman and the US Navy carried out a successful carrier-style landing of the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator.

Don't try this with your backyard drone. The X-47B has made its first arrested landing on an aircraft carrier, and the world of unmanned aircraft may never be the same.

Pitching decks can make a carrier trap landings extremely dangerous…. The video in this post was filmed aboard USS Midway on Aug. 21, 1984. It shows U.S. Navy A-7E Corsair II (BuNo 157495 ...