It's rare that you're ever looking down at the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, unless you're standing ... multiple aspects of their design are intended to offset the swell of the ocean.

During flight operations, an aircraft carrier's deck is an extremely dangerous place with expensive fighter jets and helicopters landing and taking off on a short runway. However, sailors and ...

Although his name would be overshadowed by the success of the Wright Brothers, Eugene B. Ely performed the first aircraft launch off a seafaring vessel in November 1910. Ely used a wooden platform ...

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) arrived at U.S. Naval Support Activity (NSA) Souda Bay, Greece ...

A Navy tradition dating back to the 1960s, crews aboard Navy aircraft carriers would prank the sailors aboard the relieving ship by releasing greased pigs on its flight deck. When the Kennedy was ...

Although technically not called an "aircraft carrier," the Maritime Self-Defense ... to allow fighter jets to take off and land on its flight deck. The Kaga departed from the MSDF Kure Base ...

He further noted that the flight deck and ski-jump are angled to ... spans the original deck means that a traditional aircraft carrier layout is not possible.” Turkish and Iranian officials ...