{"id":8588,"date":"2010-12-21T00:20:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T05:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8588"},"modified":"2010-12-20T22:17:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T03:17:38","slug":"new-catapult-to-launch-navy-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/21\/new-catapult-to-launch-navy-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"New Catapult to Launch Navy Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The aura of steam is as expected on the deck of a Navy carrier as is the smell of jet fuel.\u00a0 The steam catapult has been launching aircraft from Naval aircraft carriers for decades.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/2010\/12\/navy_120810_EMALS\/\">Electro-magnetic Aircraft Launch System<\/a> (EMALS) of the new Gerald R. Ford class carriers hopes to change that.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The EMALS system would be the first new launch system since the Navy replaced hydraulic catapults with steam-powered systems in the 1950s. An electro-magnetic system has numerous advantages over steam. EMALS, which involves energizing a series of electro-magnets, is less stressful on aircraft and can launch a wider range of aircraft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, the entire concept is predicated on electromagnetic fields, so one wonders what kind of interference such a system will have not only on the ship on which it is installed, but also the aircraft its launching.<\/p>\n<p>The EMALS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2010\/12\/navy-magnetic-launch-success-122010\/\">successfully &#8220;launched&#8221; an F\/A-18E <em>Super Hornet<\/em><\/a> on December 18th from a modified runway in New Jersey.\u00a0 Though the Hornet wasn&#8217;t tossed precariously over the water as with other carrier-based launches, it presumably reached its required launch speed at the specified distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aura of steam is as expected on the deck of a Navy carrier as is the smell of jet fuel.\u00a0 The steam catapult has been launching aircraft from Naval aircraft carriers for decades. The Electro-magnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) of the new Gerald R. Ford class carriers hopes to change that. The EMALS system would be the first new [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,1258,1259,2,36],"class_list":["post-8588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-emals","tag-gerald-r-ford","tag-military","tag-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}