Aircraft Carrier Catapult of a Jet Fighter
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Uploaded by profusions on Aug 30, 2006
Stand alongside a Navy jet fighter as it revvs up its engines and gets catapulted off the USS George Washington CVN-73. Turn up your sound!
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Hey! There is nothing wrong with the F/A-18 Hornets you loser.
3 years ago 4
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.... .. ... lol .. physics works in favor of the Navy, the world's greatest navy.
2 years ago 3
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f-14 tomcat?
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@profusions I flew A-7's from the carriers Kennedy and Ike. Empty weight: 21,500 lbs. Usual cat weight: with 12,200 lbs of gas, 5,000 lbs of bombs, 2 sidewinders, 300 rds 20 mm, about 39,000 lbs. (Max cat. weight was 42K). Zero to 180 mph (about) in 200 ft. Accel is phenomenal. We'd get "tunnel vision" from accel draining blood from front of eyeballs. Stops at end of cat shot, but scary, especially at night. Like looking at the world through a toilet paper tube. Damned scary. Fred
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@SuperHornetTV Actually the P-3 orion will be replace by the P-8A Poseidon, and all it is is a Boeing 737 with missiles on it, but eveyrthing else you said was right.
BTW- not a navy pilot, just a fan of the USnavy planes like you.
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@dimitri02 The vikings did not get replaced by the F/A-18 Hornet in anyway. It was replaced by the SH-60 Seahawk for Anti-submarine warfare and the P-3 Orion which is land based. And for the prowler...the EA-18G will be better than the Prowler in pretty much, every way. It's faster, range is longer, it can carry self-air defense, and it carries less crew. So if the Air Force has a 2 seater EA aircraft, why can't the Navy?
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0 - 165 mph in 2 secs... :P
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Thanks dude.....I've been stating that reason on most Tomcat videos!
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Corsairkied1 - thanks for your insight. I was amazed at the quick recovery time of my eyeballs after launch or landing. But i was merely a passenger on the COD. Night carrier landings, even in this jaded tech arena, are simply marvelous and amazing to watch. Nothing like it in civilian life; not even close.
profusions 11 months ago
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Wait... How is that being "catapulted"? It's just using the ship as a runway to take off
RobertWLeung 2 years ago
Under the front wheel there is an attachment to a steam-operated catipult which drags the airplane down the runway very quickly. In that way it throws the aircraft off the flight deck now under its own power.
profusions 2 years ago
NaVykaTT, Isn't great to have vivid memories to fall back on? BTW, what is the GDub?
profusions 4 years ago