How Aircraft Carrier Catapults Work 

I am sure they have greater technology

CVN 69? Nice.

Hmm have u ever sailed with DDG-69 and CG-69?

New ships are ditching steam for some kind of giant electric solenoid.

I worked CV 63 her final years! I can still recite fluid flows for water brakes, JBDs rotary and water brakes haha almost 20 years later. Best/worst job ever

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Big brain

I mean... yeah

That's why you are a delivery man.

Yea but how do they make that speed? (I understand the joke btw)

To USN CVW, obviousy.

I suggested to HRO at Lakehurst that they put out a 1st April job listing for Deadload pilot, Prop Washer etc but they said to many would apply :(

Indigo: Apply to Huntington Ingalls Shipyard, Newport News, Va. (p.s. they won't actually let you ride one, but honestly you really wouldn't want to either)

The closest you're legally gonna get is to ride a roller coaster that uses the same technology instead of the old clunky (

@@Atlessa Dude, for ~$100 you can get an hour of flight training in at least a cessna if not a citabria or something. Either of which will let anyone who's uninitiated experience the most G force of their entire life unless they drive a Radical or an F2 or F1 ... it'll be plenty.

Agreed

Sounds a lot like a missile launcher lol

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Or just shoot them from a giant cannon The french got to the moon that way

Hmm yes great idea

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I think type 003 have emals. If chinese nailed it who knows😅

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People in china: you guys use RU-vid?

Hi Patrick, thanks for your comments! Regrading the preheat time, so "soaking" does not take hours?

Commenting to remember this comment🧠 Also what does FOD mean?

@@NotWhatYouThink no it only takes a few cycles of the shuttle to get up temp and the cylinder bedblocks to seal up.

@@weppwebb2885 Foreign Object Debris Foreign Object Damage

Just for sake of knowledge, is it possible to have catapult and ramp at the same time?

I just watched that video

Yep, was just about to say the same thing

That's basically exactly what they are.

Like bullet trains

They are what you dont think

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@@NotWhatYouThink this is just a question but could you try every Monday and Friday?

@@F16enthusiast I think not

Yeah thats like 1 in a million kinda deal though. EMALS?? Nope, Id rather have reliable catapults thanks!!

@@wheels-n-tires1846 EMALS is a new tech. Steam catapults where a new tech at one point too. The benefits of EMALS far outweigh the downsides of lower reliability in the mean time.

@@curtiswhyte3297 I disagree. The emals is still performing with an abyssmal failure rate, and we have a carrier thats been in commission hiw long?? And what advantages are there??? If youre talking about sortie rate, its inaccurate, disingenious, and as of now, the failure rate pretty much cancels everything.

@@curtiswhyte3297 out of curiosity, i reread some reports and its worse than i recall!! The EMALS is supposed to achieve over 4000 launches without a failure. So far they've only been able to achieve less than 300!! The new EM arresting gear is even worse!!! The standard is 16500, and havent been able to achieve 50!!! The EMALS, when it fails, requires a total system shutdown, which means ALL the cats. Failures of EMALS and the arresting system have both caused the systems to be down for hours, to DAYS!! That explains why Fords first upcoming faux deployment will be limited and within range of land-so that planes wont be lost at sea if the carrier cant recover them!!! The Ford was supposed to have IOC in 2018. Five years later, we still have a totally combat-uncapable ship. The transformatiomal new tech is an unmitigated disaster for the navy and the taxpayers. Theres no vaunted advantage, real or imagined, that makes EMALS or AAG worth it. Sorry but Ill take steam cats for the win....!!!

@@wheels-n-tires1846 move on bro you can't be stucked on steam forever also failure is another step of success new tech always fails at first then it will be improved as it develops

The breakable holdbacks were used in the past. They have reusable holdbacks these days.

@@RocketToTheMoose ahhh I was unaware of this! Thanks!

Fun fact: You never see steam, it's an invisible gas.

Um buddy there’s bots replying to you

@@ttangen8754 yeah let's report all the bots in this comment section

Thanks for pointing that out. When you say “designed to break”, do you mean it gets damaged and cannot be reused?

@@NotWhatYouThink: Yes. It breaks in two at the designed weak point. You can see on the metal bar it has a narrow point machined into it.

@@KutWrite Not quite correct, at least not for many years, there was a time when we actually had color coded "dumbbells" that connected the holdback bar to the maingear, and each color denoted the aircraft and the "breaking point of that dumbbell". We had boxes of them sitting mid-deck next to the manhole. We called it a breaker bar for that reason. The more modern aircraft holdback bars, or breaker bars, have calibrated connections designed to "break" or pop open at predesignated and specific pull rates... just like the old ones except there are no half-dumbbells stuck in the maingear and half in the breakerbar, both of which were FOD, and or missiles if the got caught in the jet blast from the departing aircraft! had it happen twice when I was first training and set my mind right on the dangers it presented. The new ones are recalibrated constantly for safety reasons.

@@chrismaggio7879 OK. Thanks for the update! I often wondered what happened to the half that stayed with the aircraft. Whether they got caught when the gear retracted, etc.

mmmmm, maybe it beats being far from the ship and waiting for a rescue helo, but the BN in that aircraft never left his seat pan and his chute never had time to open and slow his entry. He was pretty beat up upon recovery, more so than his pilot his chute semi opened). They were lucky to get out when they did as 5 degrees more and they would have been fired directly into the water's surface at 85 mph (and before their chutes deployed) and that would be just like hitting concrete at highway speeds.

@@chrismaggio7879 pilot was probably trying to shoot sideways so the carrier didn’t run them over lol

@@alyssadavenport629 You are not wrong!! it is a big fear to be bulldozed by a 97,000 ton ship traveling at 35kts. The standard move when leaving the deck is for Cat 1 (right front cat) to roll to starboard when they achieve airworthiness. Cat 2 is to roll left, precisely for that reason. The Waist Cats (3 & 4) roll left usually or they maintain a straight forward heading seeing as they are already shooting away from the bow of the ship by a few degrees. As a green shirt I have stood on the bow9with other green shirts) playing the Leaning Game. You open your load coat and lean as far forward as you dare, with your toes at the very end of the deck! The wind holds you up and sometimes the wind wavers you do these little drops that scare the shit out of you! Looking down 90 feet to the water is absolutely terrifying even with the 3 foot wide safety net. You see the power and force of the water against the hull and about pee yourself. But we lived dangerously and this was the game.

*float coat* not load coat ??

Is that Lakehurst, NJ? If so, my Dad watched the Hindenburg go down in flames there in 1937!

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Yeah xD

It's an improvement over being married to the Bridal

Holdback his laughter

But there have been instances of visitors without proper boots melting the bottoms of their shoes.

@Synjd Crispy and as saying went "I'd give my left nut" to be back there, never having left the place. I was thinking with the wrong head 👇 , got married & got out.

could you pls send me the link thanks a lot i love the game

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@@suhandatanker same

@@suhandatanker why

You cant figure that out yourself?

Yeah it is. It does make me giggle however because it's a dramatic way to tell the pilot "ok you can take off now". But I agree it looks super cool.