Tuesday, January 24, 2006
"An interested group of visitors learns how carrier planes are launched"
"Despite the weather, these people want to know how
the Navy can land a jet travelling at 120 miles per hour
on a runway which is moving forward as well as up and down!"
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
You can see the silhouettes of the sailors on the flight deck as they get a last look at home port for a few months.(Click on photos to enlarge them)
Try to imagine yourself lining up to land on the ship's angle deck at 120 - 140 knots!
USS Ronald Reagan at left is moving past USS Nimitz at right. USS Midway, a decomissioned aircraft carrier which is now a museum, can only bear silent witness and "remember" her glory days of putting out to sea.
Moving past USS Nimitz, USS Reagan is about to make a slow turn to port to put her in the San Diego shipping channel.
