TROUBLESHOOTING
Following the catapult launch
of a fighter plane from aircraft
carrier ‘USS John C. Stennis’,
green shirts check the cat’s
mechanism for possible damage.
The steam-powered catapults
accelerate an aircraft from
0 to 150 knots inside 2 seconds.
On the forrard part of the flight
deck an F/A-18 ‘Hornet’ bomber
squad is parked between
missions.