The specific plane that China successfully launched and recovered from their carrier was the Shenyang J-35, which is believed to be China’s answer to the Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II warplane ...

In 1945, Japan’s Kawanishi N1K floatplanes intercepted a massive B-29 over the Pacific. Outgunned and outmatched, the pilots risked everything in one of the most unlikely dogfights of the war.

Traditionally, for both sailors and pilots, the ship or the aircraft is feminine, he said. And added on a poetic note, “She is like a mother, a friend, a guide, the only one who is truly with you ...