On board the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Eagle (1946) while under way at sea during flying operations. The photographer is on the port side of the island superstructure looking to port and slightly forward showing the nose of the Hawker-Siddeley Buccaneer S.2 aircraft XV345, coded 103/E, of 800 Naval Air Squadron taking off from the aft catapult on the angled deck. Her nose wheel has left the deck and their is image movement.