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As you will see, the aircraft will taxi up to the catapult, lower the launch bar into a small shuttle.

Behind the nose gear will be attached a holdback fitting from the landing gear to the ship.

The holdback bar will hold the aircraft as the pilot runs his throttles to full power.

When the pilot is ready to launch, they will give a crisp salute, and the catapult officer will then press the button.

He'll release the launch bar, and away he goes.

Captain Morgan, this is still one of the most dangerous carrier launches and carrier recoveries.

It's still among the most dangerous activities the Navy does, correct?

Oh, absolutely.

Again, I admire this so much.

This has been a lot of fun.

Fun to watch.

You very rarely get this kind of up close and personal in this.

The president would be on the bridge right now observing this.

There we go.

Check out.

While our Intrepid Alert aircraft proceed to investigate and neutralize the threat, three of our aircraft are returning from the fight now.

Overhead in the stack, we will recover one F-35 Lightning II, one F-18 Super Hornet, and one E-2D Hawkeye.

very technical very dangerous

Admiral Masso, on the recovery of the aircraft, normally there's a destroyer right in back of the carrier that is a plane guard ship.

Talk to me about that.