An F-14 Tomcat (this is the plane in the movie Top Gun) taxiing on deck. Colored shirts indicate different jobs on deck. Red is Ordnancemen & Crash and Salvage Crews, purple is fuels.
An F-18 Hornet, the premier Navy & Marine attack aircraft. Again the colored shirts -- yellow is aircraft handling & catapult & arresting gear officers and plane directors
AE-6 Prowler elecronic warfare plane with wings folded. Note the gold covered canopies to protect the aircrew from the intense radiation put out by the pod on the plane's tail.
Inside the Operations Center with lots of equipment to monitor fight operations.
Some of the biggest video monitors I've ever seen. Some stuff they
asked us not to photograph.
F-14 Tomcat ready to go with wings swept forward to reduce needed takeoff speed and hooked up to the catapult. the F-14 is Part of the Jolly Roger squadron VF-103 note skull & crossbones on tail.
F-14 taking off into the wind. Next to it is an F-18 Hornet with max power on. A blast shield protrudes from the deck to keep one jet's blast from blowing other jets & people behind it down the deck.