This is on the deck of the USS NIMITZ CVN68  -- it would take one hell of a catapult to put that puppy in the air from the Nimitz.

True story ... bet the bad guy's satellites went berserk looking at this one ... ( and it wasn't the Navy paying off a bet against AF)

While this may look like a gag shot, it is actually a ‘transport of a transport’ necessity. The B-52 was in Beirut, Lebanon undergoing routine fuel tank cleaning.  Workmen accidently damaged the bladder system and had to install the bladders from smaller C-130s temporarily.  The plane was flown to nearby McCollough air base where it was lifted upon a barge bound for Tyre on the Mediterranean.  Once there it was off-loaded onto the carrier deck for transport to Crete where the appropriate tank bladders were installed.  It was then flown back to Beirut.  Military cooperation in action.