Power generation: how the US Navy works up large deck carrier operations

摘要

On the flight deck of the US Navy's (USN's) latest Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, sailors in blue and green shirts run through the rising steam while their peers in yellow 'shooter' shirts guide F/A-18 Hornet fighter aircraft into position on the two bow catapults. As the pilots conduct pre-flight checks, sailors clad in purples, reds, and browns attend to the squadron's remaining fighters, each aircraft awaiting its turn to be launched off USS George H W Bush (CVN 77).