‘What a monstrous tail our cat has got!’
—Henry Carey (1687–1743)
An F-14B Tomcat launches from the flight deck of the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) during Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003. In this time exposure, the streaks of light show plane crew motions and, from the plane’s lights, its path down the deck.
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