You ought to be in movies.
While this may look like a perfectly choreographed movie set, these "actors" are performing the real thing as an F-14 Tomcat The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, variable geometry wing aircraft. The F-14 was the United States Navy's primary maritime air superiority fighter, fleet defense interceptor and tactical reconnaissance platform from 1974 to 2006. taxies to catapult one aboard Constellation (CV 64) during routine flight operations off the coast of Australia on 14 April. Constellation was on a six-month deployment to the Arabian Gulf Arabian Gulf: see Persian Gulf. in support of Operation Southern Watch Operation Southern Watch was an operation conducted by Joint Task Force Southwest Asia (JTF-SWA) with the mission of monitoring and controlling airspace south of the 33rd Parallel in Iraq, following the 1991 Gulf War until the 2003 invasion of Iraq. .
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