Newport News Shipbuilding reached the catapult testing phase in construction of the John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier, the company announced Wednesday. Car-like structures, weighing up to 80,000 pounds ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pictures and videos show testing of the catapults on the Chinese aircraft carrier Fujian, which is still being fitted out, has ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — HII announced Wednesday that its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division recently started topside testing of the electromagnetic aircraft launch system on Ford-class aircraft ...

Aircraft Carrier History for Beijing – China’s Supercarrier Has Begun Catapult Testing – The People’s Liberation Army Navy’s (PLAN’s) most advanced aircraft carrier has begun testing, and could soon ...

HII's Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) unit has started testing of the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) on aircraft carrier John F Kennedy (CVN 79), marking a major milestone for the ship ...

F-35 integrated test force personnel and F-35C test aircraft CF-3 returned to NAS Patuxent River last week after completing two major catapult test events. Starting this summer, the test team put the ...