
The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) launched and recovered its first fixed-wing aircraft on Saturday, an F/A-18F Super Hornet, time while using the advanced arresting gear (AAG) and new EMALS launch system, both firsts aboard the newly commissioned aircraft carrier.The Super Hornet was piloted from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23 at Patuxent River, Md. In the operation, the aircraft caught the number two arresting wire of Ford’s AAG system for the first arrested landing on the carrier at…