US Navy Catapult Shot (airspeed indicator)

Closeup of the airspeed indicator during an aircraft carrier cat shot. Taken from the cockpit of an EA-6 combat jet.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• airspeed
• fighter
• carrier

[FlightLevelHeaded]

Your mother wanted something that went from zero to 180 in about three seconds.

I bought her a bathroom scale.

[pgmartini1]

who ever posted filmed that is a fucking hero........holy shit! !

Cracking video thanks..........your butt cheeks could crack a coconut, i bet.

[Nfarce]

@rockstarr469 - True. But a top fuelly doesn't weigh 40,000+ pounds either. (-:

[OriginalAtomicSheep]

@pgmartini1 Stop cracking jokes

[Tarten46]

@rockstarr469 FAIL. A top fuel car BUILDS acceleration over time. The first five feet of a cat shot is so violent and instantaneous a TFcar will NEVER be able to duplicate it and would ground loop. Watch the gauge even it CANT keep up with the opening shock(go flip a household light switch off and on for a reference to how quick electricity is). This is a modern GRADUATED cat designed to LIMIT the shock to man and machine. The old types gave you EVERYTHING at once. Ive rode both.

[legioXXXtraiana]

Preparing to make the jump to hyperspace - 3, 2, 1...

[rockstarr469]

@devilleader501 A top fuel dragster accelearates much faster than that. They are doing around 280 mpth at the eighth mile which is about 2.5 seconds into the run

[GOapeshit14]

@amgiad thats barely a second to reach a speed not even available on your pa28 ASI. haha

[TheShiteMaster]

Awesome - different perspective vs watching launch from the deck

[devilleader501]

How can you not like 0-180 in 3 seconds. This was badass man Props to the downloader. A fuckin top fuel dragster barely does that and its on the ground. Could you imagine a catapult launch in an F-14. Nutts man just Nutts.

[shifty2757]

@Tjita1 I'm aware, like I said, I didn't mean true airspeed to it's technical definition. I meant "true" as in "The speed the plane is actually flying at" not what the airspeed indicator says. Is the plane flying? No, so it's airspeed is zero since it is not actually moving/flying under it's own power. And I was just using a car as a comparison since what I'm talking about is kind of the same basic principle.

[Tjita1]

@shifty2757 True airspeed is indicated airspeed calibrated for pressure altitude and temperature. It is still a measurement of the speed of the air moving past the aircraft, whether it is flying, standing on the ground or on top of a moving aircraft carrier. Calibrated airspeed is calibrated to faults in the system providing the pressure for the indicator. Ground speed is actual speed over ground. A car however measures speed on the wheels. There is no equivalent measurement on an aircraft. /A&P