This Navy admiral just bagged his 1,000th landing on an aircraft carrier
With a thunderous bang, a Navy F/A-18 slammed onto the deck of the USS Carl Vinson on Feb. 16, snagging a steel wire with its ...
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AIM-54 Phoenix: The Missile That Made the F-14 Tomcat an 'Aerial Assassin'
Because of the stringent weight restrictions for carrier landings, the F-14 could not land with a full ... simply to reduce the F-14s weight before landing. In case you were wondering, each ...
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Congratulations, Sir: A U.S. Navy Admiral Just Completed His 1,000th Carrier Landing
After sticking the landing ... Carrier Strike Group ONE, landed on the flight deck of the United States Navy’s Nimitz-class nuclear powered supercarrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) in a Boeing F ...