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An aircraft director positions an aircraft on one of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln's steam-powered catapults during flight operations on the ship's flight deck while under way in the Pacific Ocean Oct. 27, 2007.

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An aircraft director positions an aircraft on one of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln's steam-powered catapults during flight operations on the ship's flight deck while under way in the Pacific Ocean Oct. 27, 2007.

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