The crude wooden platform also proved insufficient for a perfect takeoff or landing ... U.S. Navy tested how a catapult system could work on its aircraft carriers. In 1915, three years before ...

The Navy's X-47B completes the first-ever aircraft carrier landing of an unmanned drone on the USS George H.W. Bush. Video by WSJ's Julian E. Barnes via #WorldStream.

Early aircraft carriers featured aircraft that could ... The Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing (STOVL) system utilizes the ski jump to help the aircraft get airborne. The aircraft that use ...