{"id":8711,"date":"2010-12-28T00:45:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T05:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8711"},"modified":"2010-12-27T03:09:57","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T08:09:57","slug":"navy-uses-magnets-to-launch-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/28\/navy-uses-magnets-to-launch-fighter\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Uses Magnets to Launch Fighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FoxNews caught up to the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/21\/new-catapult-to-launch-navy-aircraft\/\">previous article here<\/a> on the 18 December launch of a Navy F\/A-18E <em>Super Hornet<\/em> with the EMALS.\u00a0 The EMALS is an electromagnetic launch system designed to replace the steam driven systems currently in operation.\u00a0 Interestingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2010\/12\/24\/navy-uses-railgun-launch-fighter-jets\/\">the article notes<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Newer, heavier and faster aircraft will require more force to catapult from the carrier decks than steam-powered systems can supply. Electromagnets will be able to deliver, and allow for smooth acceleration at both high and low speeds, increasing the carrier\u2019s ability to launch aircraft, the Navy said in a press release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Presumably, that&#8217;s a reference to the F-35, the only substantial new aircraft slated to enter naval service in the reasonable future.<\/p>\n<p>The article contains a link to the Navy&#8217;s somewhat slow\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=euLsg_viWW0\">YouTube video of the launch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FoxNews caught up to the previous article here on the 18 December launch of a Navy F\/A-18E Super Hornet with the EMALS.\u00a0 The EMALS is an electromagnetic launch system designed to replace the steam driven systems currently in operation.\u00a0 Interestingly, the article notes Newer, heavier and faster aircraft will require more force to catapult from the carrier decks than steam-powered [&#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":[13,1258,841,5285,2,36],"class_list":["post-8711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-emals","tag-fa-18","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711","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=8711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}