While most people are aware of what an aircraft carrier is from movies, seeing them in person, or serving aboard them, there's another similar craft many are unfamiliar with. The helicopter carrier is ...

Welcome back to the Daily Aviation for a feature on the Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing (STOVL) variant of the F-35 stealth fighter and attack aircraft, operated by the US Marine Corps. Footage ...

Pratt & Whitney's F135 powerplant for the Lockheed Martin F-35 suffered a second turbine blade failure on 4 February, the same day the US Department of Defense tried for a third time to cancel the ...

The first short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) F-35 Joint Strike Fighter could begin powered-lift testing on the hover pit at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth, Texas, plant as early as this week.

The Cavour aircraft carrier will carry out F-35B STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) qualification off the U.S. East Coast. According to journalist Xavier Vavasseur, the imminent trials were ...

Members of the JSF team expected the USAF to order STOVL-capable JSFs long before Air Force Chief of Staff General John P Jumper announced his intention to do so at the Air Force Association's Air ...

The term “austere airfield” has many meanings in defense literature. In regard to support infrastructure, the term generally implies very limited or nonexistent facilities for storing fuel, housing ...

Two powered - lift concepts, the tandem fan and the longitudinally-arrayed ejector , are integrated with two existing fighter aircraft, the F-14A and F-16A respectively, to indicate the benefits ...

The short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing (Stovl) F-35B Joint Strike Fighter is unlikely to conduct initial at-sea testing on schedule in March 2011 because of delays in clearing the vertical-landing ...

The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's helicopter carrier Kaga, right, and the Izumo are seen in Yokohama, south of Tokyo. (Yoshitaka Sugawara/Kyodo News via AP) MELBOURNE, Australia – Japan-based ...