A U.S. Navy F/A-18 pilot became the first woman in naval aviation history to score an air-to-air kill after shooting down a drone over the Red Sea.

A US Navy pilot skirted disaster, saving himself and his fighter jet from crashing into the sea. Documents obtained by BI ...

A Navy aviator has become the first woman U.S. pilot to “engage and kill an air-to-air contact” in combat. The military branch said last week that the unnamed Navy pilot, a member of the ...

The U.S. Navy took on a secret project to learn more about brain injuries suffered by its most elite fighter pilots and now congressional lawmakers are demanding more information about the effort ...

In 2019 the Navy sent him a half-dozen fighter pilots who were experiencing issues with memory, clouded thinking and anxiety. To him, they resembled veterans he had treated who had been repeatedly ...

A fighter pilot for the U.S. Navy became the first American woman to earn an air-to-air victory when she shot down a Houthi drone in the Red Sea region.

A fishing charter boat captain who rescued two parachuting Navy pilots after witnessing their unmanned fighter jet plummet into San Diego Bay described what he saw as something from a movie. The U ...

A US Navy pilot skirted disaster, saving himself and his fighter jet from crashing into the sea. Documents obtained by BI reveal his quick reaction to a "catastrophic" failure on his carrier. The ...

The Navy’s elite TOPGUN pilot school quietly undertook an effort called Project Odin’s Eye in the fall of 2024 to try to detect and treat brain injuries in fighter crew members, ...

The pilot — whom the Navy did not identify — belongs to Strike Fighter Squadron 32 and flew an F/A-18 Super Hornet off the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, according to CNN.

Both pilots were taken to UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest and were said to be in stable condition. The jet was based at Naval Air Station North Island, which specializes in Navy aircraft.