Lt. Cmdr. Henry C. Mustin, in an AB-2 flying boat, makes the first airplane catapult launching from a vessel, USS North Carolina, in Pensacola Bay, Fla.
An important U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry AWACS command and control plane was among the aircraft damaged in a March 27 Iranian missile and drone attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.
