USS George H.W. Bush Both Catapulted and Landed Jets 80,000 Times, All With Zero Incidents

Back at the beginning of the year, both the military and the civilian worlds were stunned by images of an F-35 Lightning II slamming into the deck of the USS Carl Vinson, skidding on it, and then dropping into the cold waters of the South China Sea. It was something horrible to look at but, luckily, an incident the kind of which happens very rarely. Take the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), for instance, and the Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 7 it ... (continue reading...)