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Student pilots wait in the cockpits of their TA-4J Skyhawk aircraft for their turns at the catapult on the flight deck of the Auxiliary Aircraft Landing Training Ship USS LEXINGTON (AVT 16) during pilot carrier training. Flight deck crewmen stand by near an MD-3A tow tractor at left in the Gulf of Mexico

A crewman using a tow bar hauls a TA-4J Skyhawk toward a parking spot on the flight deck of the auxiliary aircraft landing training ship USS LEXINGTON (AVT 16) during pilot carrier training in the Gulf of Mexico

A plane handler guides the pilot of a taxiing T-2C Buckeye aircraft forward toward a catapult on the flight deck of the Auxiliary Aircraft Landing Training Ship USS LEXINGTON (AVT 16) during pilot carrier training in the Gulf of Mexico

Two flight deck crewmen rush to retrieve a catapult bridle used in the launch of the T-2C Buckeye aircraft that has just left the flight deck of the Auxiliary Aircraft Landing Training Ship USS LEXINGTON (AVT 16) in the Gulf of Mexico

A crewman attaches a tow bar to the nose gear of a TA-4J Skyhawk aircraft on the flight deck of the auxiliary aircraft landing training ship USS LEXINGTON (AVT 16) as a plane handler signals to other members of the flight deck crew during pilot carrier training in the Gulf of Mexico

A TA-4J Skyhawk aircraft from Training Wing 2 (TW-2) catches an arresting wire on the flight deck of the auxiliary aircraft landing training ship USS LEXINGTON (AVT 16)

A plane handler directs a pilot to turn his T-2C Buckeye aircraft to the left as it taxies toward a catapult on the flight deck of the Auxiliary Aircraft Landing Training Ship USS LEXINGTON (AVT 16) during pilot carrier training in the Gulf of Mexico

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A flight deck crewman aboard the auxiliary aircraft landing training ship USS LEXINGTON (AVT 16) checks the progress of preparations to launch one aircraft while a T-2C Buckeye aircraft waits behind the blast deflector for its turn at the catapult during pilot carrier training in the Gulf of Mexico

Two crewmen stand atop an MD-3A tow tractor as they refuel a TA-4J Skyhawk aircraft on the flight deck of the auxiliary aircraft landing training ship USS LEXINGTON (AVT 16) during pilot carrier training in the Gulf of Mexico

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Base: USS Lexington (AVT 16)

Scene Camera Operator: Jim Bryant

Release Status: Released to Public

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01/04/1989
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