Senior University photographer Matt Cashore ’94 smiles for his own camera aboard Rawhide 71, a C-2 Greyhound aircraft en route to the USS Harry S. Truman about 100 miles off the shore of Norfolk, Virginia. Cashore, an amateur pilot and aviation buff, visited the aircraft carrier for a story that will appear in the autumn issue of the magazine. A C-2 Greyhound, he says, “is the only way for a civilian (other than Tom Cruise) to experience what makes naval aviation unique: catapult takeoffs and arrested landings.” Catapult takeoffs propel the aircraft from zero to 120 miles per hour in two seconds. Arrested landings require a wire to connect to a hook on the plane to bring it from 150 miles per hour to a stop just as abruptly. “Comfortable? Not really,” Cashore reports. “It’s hot, loud and smelly, but it was absolutely my favorite airplane ride ever.”
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