British Carrier Trials Test Unique Landing Capability

Credit: Kyle Heller/Royal Navy
With British test pilots performing the first shipborne rolling vertical landings (SRVL) with the Lockheed Martin F-35B onto the new HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier, the technique comes one step closer to operational use after more than a decade in development. Combining both powered- and...

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