A VF-213 "Black Lions" Tomcat slowly edges forward to the shuttle on Cat 3 for launch as the brown shirts carry out the final checks during the last daylight event of the day onboard USS Theodore Roosevelt
A VF-213 "Black Lions" Tomcat sits armed and ready on cat # 3 only a few seconds away from launch from the deck of USS Theodore Roosevelt for a mission over the Beach
A very interesting photo taken at the Pima Air & Space Museum in early 1987. She is a very rare McDonnell F-3B Demon and is generally listed as Bu.No 145221 which she wore when photographed. When she was restored by the Museum she became 143492 .