GONE IN A FLASH
Catapult (cat) launch of an
F-14 ‘Tomcat’ fighter plane
from the flight deck of aircraft
carrier ‘USS John C. Stennis’.
The 4 steam-powered catapults
can accelerate an aircraft from
0 to 150 knots inside 2 seconds.
The jet’s afterburners glow
bright pink; the noise they
create is deafening.