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USS Nimitz Sets Sail For Likely Final Deployment
Almost 50 years on from its commissioning date, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) departed Naval Base ...
A US Navy pilot narrowly avoided crashing into the sea by as little as 16 feet after a 'catastrophic' failure aboard his aircraft carrier
At the time of that near-miss, the naval aviator was flying a Boeing-made F/A-18E Super Hornet carrier-based fighter ... the ...
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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RAAF marks 15 years since delivery of the first Super Hornet
Although the F/A-18F Super Hornet was originally envisioned as a stopgap while the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) fielded ...
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French Carrier Charles de Gaulle Wraps First Pacific Deployment
An F/A-18E Super Hornet ... French carrier was very interoperable with the U.S. Navy aircraft as its catapult and arresting gear equipment are from the U.S. and Charles De Gaulle’s Landing ...
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Congratulations, Sir: A U.S. Navy Admiral Just Completed His 1,000th Carrier Landing
commander of 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/A-18E Super Hornet.