Landing a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier is borderline surgical. The deck space is tight, typically only about 500 feet long, which is nowhere near enough for a jet going 150 mph to stop by brakes ...

A helipad, as the name would imply, is typically for helicopter use. The giant letter 'H' in its center is there for a reason, after all. In general, airplanes need an awful lot more room to land than ...

John Pedersen was on a solo sunrise flight around the Loop when his single-engine, fixed-wing RANS S-6 Coyote II started shaking violently. “O’Hare tower: mayday,” he said to air traffic control. “We ...