Crossing the Ramp by Russell Recchion

The artist beautifully captures a Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet the split-second it crosses the edge of an aircraft carrier flight deck. The contrast between the aircraft’s cool shadow, the steel-gray flight deck, and the deep blue ocean, dramatizes the moment right before landing. This image may be the closest that one can get to landing a 40,000-pound naval aircraft on a moving runway at sea.