The Vought XF5U "Flying Pancake" was a radical Navy fighter that promised extreme performance but arrived just as jet aircraft took over, ending one of aviation's boldest experiments before it ever ...

Key Points and Summary - Born for Cold War fleet defense, the F-14 Tomcat paired swing-wing agility with the AWG-9 radar and AIM-54 Phoenix to hunt bombers at range and still dogfight up close. -A ...

On Nov. 18, 1952, Royce Williams was piloting an F9F-5 Panther when he encountered seven Soviet MiG-15s. He shot down four of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A fighter jet and a helicopter based off the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz both crashed into the South China Sea within 30 minutes of each other, the Navy’s Pacific Fleet said. The ...

A U.S. Navy helicopter and a fighter jet crashed in the South China Sea on Oct. 26 in two separate incidents, the Navy’s Pacific Fleet said. A MH-60R Seahawk helicopter went down at about 2:45 p.m.

NAVAL AIR STATION OCEANA, Va. (WAVY) — A Navy pilot is recovering after ejecting from an F/A-18E Super Hornet Wednesday morning off the coast of Virginia. LT Jackie Parashar, a public affairs officer ...

Chief of Naval Operations Daryl Caudle stressed that the sixth-gen fighter jet was urgently needed to replace the US Navy’s existing fleet of F/A-18 Super Hornets and EA-18G Growlers. The US Navy ...