{"id":6969,"date":"2010-12-21T09:37:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T13:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6969"},"modified":"2010-12-21T11:06:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T15:06:35","slug":"emals-successfully-launches-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/21\/emals-successfully-launches-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"EMALs successfully launches aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what must be welcome news for naval aviators, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2010\/12\/21\/emals_launch_success\/\" target=\"_blank\">next-generation catapult<\/a> for launching aircraft from carriers was successful in a land-based test:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The US Navy says it has successfully launched a jet fighter into flight using a radical new electromagnetically powered catapult. The feat is important for the Americans, whose next supercarrier will be a disastrous botch without the new tech: it is even more critical for the future of the Royal Navy.<\/p>\n<p>The US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) announced the test success of its Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) last night, saying that the shore-based trials catapult at Lakehurst, New Jersey, successfully launched a Navy F\/A-18E Super Hornet on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought the launch went great,\u201d said Lieutenant Daniel Radocaj, the test pilot who flew the Hornet off the electric mass-driver. \u201cI got excited once I was on the catapult but I went through the same procedures as on a steam catapult. The catapult stroke felt similar to a steam catapult and EMALS met all of the expectations I had.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The timing of the test is crucial for the US Navy&#8217;s next big warship:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The next US fleet carrier &mdash; CVN 78, aka <em>USS Gerald R Ford<\/em> &mdash; is now at an advanced stage of build, and was designed around the EMALS. If EMALS couldn&#8217;t be made to work, the US Navy would have found itself in possession of the world&#8217;s biggest helicopter carrier. There will be much celebration at NAVAIR following Saturday&#8217;s success.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what must be welcome news for naval aviators, the next-generation catapult for launching aircraft from carriers was successful in a land-based test: The US Navy says it has successfully launched a jet fighter into flight using a radical new electromagnetically powered catapult. The feat is important for the Americans, whose next supercarrier will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,13],"tags":[123,617,30],"class_list":["post-6969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-technology","category-usa","tag-aircraft","tag-carriers","tag-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1Op","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6969"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6972,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969\/revisions\/6972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}