BBC reporter does cat shot and arrested landing!

[Howard of Effingham]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-29547621

rupert wingfield-hayes is one of the BBC's reporters in the far east.

click on the arrow in the first photo for just over 2 minutes of interesting action onboard USS George Washington.

his report is good reading too.

[PR19_Kit]

Grrrrr, and he gets PAID for being there too! 

And I think the French may have a quibble about '.....the US is the only country that can do this.....'

[rickshaw]

As might the Chinese, the Russians and the Brazilians...  All of whom have catapult equipped carriers.

[Captain Canada]

Cool. What a thrill that would be !