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Joint Photographic Experts Group Image  |  1997-01-09  |  47.5 KB  |  616x931  |  24-bit (88,984 colors)
   ocr: 402 - - - a E : : TTUNN CHS : AVigilante pilot approaches the carrier at 125 knots, while maintaining power to: zoom to: safety in case of a miscalculation. He chops the throtties only after the tail hook ez- gages "When Iwatched my first jet land," photographer Abercrombie recalls, "Idived for cover, thinking it was crashing - Newest of the Nivy's attack bombers. the needle- nosed Vigilante carries 1 crew of two and dies at twice the speed of snund. Tail-loading fuel tanks slide into a Vigilante's unasual linear bomb bay, a tunnei throuch the fuselage. Bombs are ejected from the rear: like to ...