CNN gets look on board aircraft carrier in Europe amid Russia tensions 02:25 USS Harry S Truman, Adriatic Sea (CNN)The smell of jet fuel fills the air as an F/A-18 Super Hornet prepares for take-off. Its engines are idle and it’s already unbearably loud on the flight deck of the USS Harry S Truman.
A flight director on the United States Navy carrier gestures towards the jet, giving the go ahead for a catapult like-system to sling the aircraft towards the edge of a seemingly impossibly short runway.
Within seconds, it’s in the air and nearly out of sight.This intricate process […]
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