The story of the US Navy F/A|18 pilot that made a night trap on a ...

Naval Aviator recalls when an F/A-18 pilot made a night trap on a ...

Naval Aviator recalls when an F/A-18 pilot made a night trap on a carrier having the Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System turned off.

The story of the US Navy F/A-18 pilot that made a night trap on a ...

The story of the US Navy F/A-18 pilot that made a night trap on a carrier having the Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System (AKA ball) turned off.

First Super Hornet pilot and WSO trap 100th to make centurion

Weapon System Officer (WSO) Armstrong, went over 100 traps April 7 on the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) as part of a VFA-122 carrier qualification detachment for ...

Report: 2014's deadly F/A-18 collision was an accident - Navy Times

Pilot Lt. Nate Poloski's untimely death over the Pacific last year has been ruled an accident, but a command investigation into the fatal ...

Activities | USS Midway Museum

Do you have what it takes to be an F/18 pilot? If you have nerves of steel, join the men and women in the Training Exercise “Screaming Eagles” and hope that it ...

Scott O'Grady - Wikipedia

Scott Francis O'Grady (born October 12, 1965) is a former United States Air Force fighter pilot. On June 2, 1995, he was shot down over Bosnia and ...

The Grand Club - Tailhook Association

This page is dedicated to those Naval Aviators with 1,000 or more carrier arrested landings. These aviators spent many months at sea, guarding the world sea ...

Navy Brings 'Precision Landing Mode' Carrier Landing Assist Tool to ...

Ford (CVN-78) to conduct their first landings at sea in an F-/A-18E-F Super Hornet, both in the daylight and at night. “I will say that, without ...

US Navy identifies 2 aviators killed in EA-18G Growler jet crash near ...

The U.S. Navy has identified the two aviators who died when their EA-18G Growler aircraft crashed near Mount Rainier last week.

Navy testing 'Magic Carpet' for F-18 carrier landings - SOFREP

That was the smoothest night trap I've ever flown, send me up again,” said Lt. Zach “Bamboo” Hutchings, Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 87, Carrier Air Wing ...

The Tailhook and Landing on an Aircraft Carrier | HowStuffWorks

Photo courtesy U.S Department of Defense. Landing on a flight deck is one of the most difficult things a navy pilot will ever do. The flight deck only has ...

Confessions Of An A-6 Intruder Pilot - The War Zone

In the Intruder, flying nap-of-the-earth was our bread and butter. We did it during the day, free and loose, darting down the tiniest riverbeds and through the ...

How do fighter jet pilots pee or poop? - Quora

The code word for this was 'code brown'. I once had a wingman with a code brown. After we landed we pulled of the runway. The wingman asked us ...

Aircraft Galleries | National Naval Aviation Museum

The name Charles Lindbergh is synonymous with flying across the Atlantic, but the NC-4 flying boat was the first to conquer that ocean in a multi-legged flight ...

News - AF.mil

Three A-29 Super Tucanos joined the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School at ... F-35 pilot training through the Foreign Military Sales program, Sept. 20 ...

6 Questions with Fox News Correspondent Lea Gabrielle

... story–and it involves a night trap on the boat. Yikes! A US Naval Academy graduate from the class of 1997, Lea served as an F/A-18C Hornet ...

Air Warriors: The Inside Story of the Making of a Navy Pilot - Everand

Tuba and Rosie marched up to the top carrier deck to check out their F-14 for the night flight. Tuba would pilot the jet. Rosie would sit in the back seat of ...

VFA-154 - Wikipedia

Strike Fighter Squadron 154 (VFA-154), also known as the "Black Knights", is a United States Navy strike fighter squadron stationed at Naval Air Station ...

10 Reasons I loved flying the Super Hornet - Hush-Kit

I heard the Landing Signals Officer scream 'Power, Power, Power!' and looking to my right I saw a Growler in plan form tail-walking down the ...

USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) history - U.S. Carriers

June 27, An F/A-18C, assigned to Marine Strike Fighter Squadron (VMFA) 115, crashed approximately 60 miles south of the Azores, in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, ...