Steam from the catapult envelopes a Navy F-14 Tomcat.
Steam from the catapult envelopes a Navy F-14 Tomcat as the flight crew prepares it for launch from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) on Feb. 22, 2005, while underway in the Persian Gulf. The Truman Strike Group and Carrier Air Wing 3 are conducting close air support, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions over Iraq. The Tomcat is attached to Fighter Squadron 32 of Naval Air Station Oceana, Va.