A crew member and a tow tractor operator had to jump to safety when an F/A 18 fighter jet fell off the hangar deck of the USS ...

The U.S. Navy said Monday that an F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet was "lost at sea" after slipping off the deck of the USS ...

The AV-8B Harrier, known informally as the Harrier jump jet, is the latest iteration in a series of VSTOL aircraft that was first developed in the 1960s. Originally manufactured by the UK’s ...

A veteran Royal Navy pilot of the Falklands conflict has made the first hovering test flight in a United States prototype of an advanced strike aircraft ... the Harrier jump jet aircraft which ...

In a bold move during the Cold War, British engineers developed a fighter jet ... the Harrier became the first operational V/STOL (vertical/short takeoff and landing) combat aircraft in the ...

22,000 pounds of thrust enable the Harrier II to hover like a helicopter, and then blast forward like a jet at near-supersonic speeds. Like every aircraft in the Marine fleet, this aircraft is ...

Once the pride of Britain’s RAF and Royal Navy, the now stripped-down Harrier ... jump jets – and at one time considered ideal for the Navy’s two new £6.2 billion aircraft carriers ...

The F-35 is to replace most other fighter and ground attack aircraft, including the F-16, F-18, and A-10, as well as tthe Harrier "jump-jet" under the command of the Marine Corps. If you want an ...

Today the F-35B jump jet, the only plane which can fly from our carriers, is Britain’s only modern fifth-generation fighter. As a result it is difficult to get the RAF to release any aircraft for ...