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A pilot aboard a T-45 Goshawk training aircraft attempts a "touch and go" during flight operations aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Atlantic Ocean, March 17, 2009. The aircraft is part of the Navy's Training Squadron 9, which trains student naval aviators.

TOUCH AND GO

A pilot aboard a T-45 Goshawk training aircraft attempts a "touch and go" during flight operations aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Atlantic Ocean, March 17, 2009. The aircraft is part of the Navy's Training Squadron 9, which trains student naval aviators.

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