The Navy has experimented with less-ambitious flying aircraft carriers in the 1930s — its rigid airships such as the USS Macon and USS Akron could each carry up to five biplane fighter aircraft ...

Boeing once studied turning a 747 widebody airliner into a flying aircraft carrier.; The plane would have carried up to 10 “microfighters” into combat. The concept was never built out, but a ...

The future of military aviation is here, and it’s unlike anything we’ve seen before. The US has just unveiled its flying aircraft carrier, a $ billion project that is now officially ready for action.

China is set to deploy the world's largest drone carrier by the end of June. This 'drone aircraft carrier,' nicknamed the 'mother of drones,' could render current military and civilian ...

Off the California coast lies the sunken wreckage of the U.S. Navy's last flying aircraft carrier. The idea that the Navy had flying aircraft carriers is probably new to a lot of people. Imagine a ...

Got an idea on how to make a flying aircraft carrier? The Defense Department wants to know about it. The Defense Advanced Research Products Agency has a request out for ideas on how to develop an ...

Key Point: Early disasters spelled the end for the flying aircraft carrier concept. Nearly a hundred years ago the U.S. Navy asked a question: if airplanes can fly through the air, why couldn’t ...

Key Point: The loss of both airships effectively ended the flying aircraft carrier concept. It’s interesting to speculate what might have happened had the concept been further developed and ...

The Navy has experimented with less-ambitious flying aircraft carriers in the 1930s — its rigid airships such as the USS Macon and USS Akron could each carry up to five biplane fighter aircraft.