Monday, June 22, 2015

First installed electromagnetic aircraft launch system demonstrated

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The recent test launched a dead-weight sled from the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78)

The age of steam is over – at least, as far as US aircraft carriers are concerned. At Newport News, Virginia, the USS Gerald R Ford (CVN 78) successfully test fired a revolutionary Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS), which replaces the steam catapults that have been standard carrier equipment since the 1950s. The test made a literal splash because it involved an unmanned dead-weight sled rather than an aircraft, which landed about a hundred yards off the bow of the still under construction vessel.

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