Loop News reported that improvements have begun at Owen Roberts International Airport in the Cayman Islands. A blast deflector is being constructed to mitigate air turbulence at ground level by ...

This is why aircraft carriers have JBD (Jet Blast Deflectors). The videos below show an incident that occurred aboard USS Independence (CV-62) in 1995. On Apr. 18, 1995 a VF-21 F-14 Tomcat was blown ...

Navy engineers are determining how they'll accommodate both their new and existing fighters when the jets get mixed together on carrier flight decks. The Navy's F-35C Lightning II has finished up its ...

Hanover Partners, Inc. announced the purchase of Blast Deflectors, Inc. and APS Germany GmbH, collectively (“BDI”). Headquartered in Reno, Nevada, BDI designs and manufactures jet blast deflectors ...

Recently released images show J-15s of one of the brigades attached to the Naval Aviation University practicing launch and recovery operations at an unspecified coastal base where a flight deck with ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Another challenge for the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford has come to light. A new report from the Pentagon Test and Evaluation Office uncovered problems with the ship's jet blast ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The sale will give Blast Deflectors additional resources ...

Using F-35C test aircraft CF-2, the F-35 integrated test force based at Naval Air Station Patuxent River collaborated with the aircraft launch and recovery engineering team at Joint Base ...

The F-35C is another step closer to initial ship trials on an aircraft carrier at sea. The F-35 integrated test force completed jet blast deflector (JBD) testing at the NAVAIR facility in Lakehurst, N ...