The Sea Vampire made history as the first jet-powered aircraft to land on a carrier in 1945. The UK and US navies developed fighter jets to operate aboard aircraft carriers after World War II. The de ...

Famed 18th-century satirist Jonathan Swift was famously quoted as stating, "He was a bold man who first ate an oyster." The same should probably be said about the first pilot who first flew a jet ...

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Chinese state-run media claimed earlier this month that one of the country's three aircraft carriers had tested a new type of fighter jet, likely to be the J-35, that has been described as "superior" ...