An arresting gear, or arrestor gear, is a mechanical system used to rapidly decelerate an aircraft as it lands. Arresting gear on aircraft carriers is...
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The Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) is a type of arresting gear developed by General Atomics for the U.S. Navy's newest Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers...
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Tailhook (redirect from Arresting hook)
an arresting cable, stretched across the landing area, is engaged. The cable lets out, transferring the energy of the aircraft to the arresting gear through...
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service in 2025. Carriers of the Gerald R. Ford class have: Advanced Arresting Gear. Automation, allowing a crew of several hundred fewer than the Nimitz-class...
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landing pilots by voice radio and light signals. The arresting gear officer is responsible for arresting gear operation, settings, and monitoring landing area...
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catapults and arresting systems on aircraft carriers using rail guided jet donkeys pushing dead loads at 200 knots tested carrier arresting gear cables and...
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broken arresting cable. The carrier commander could have diverted the aircraft to land at a nearby airbase, but hesitated in the hope that the arresting gear...
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arresting gear and runway area, and to lengthen the after end, which allowed an increase to the length of the landing strip aft of the arresting gear...
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wing Landing and arresting gear Aircraft tire Arrestor hook Autobrake Conventional landing gear Drogue parachute Landing gear Landing gear extender Oleo...
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Zeppelin's flight deck and simulated deck landings were then conducted over an arresting cable strung width-wise across the airstrip. The cable was attached to...
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were planned for conventional catapult launches and landing using the arresting gear. The Convair Model 200 was designed in 1973 as a single-jet fighter...
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Vidsel Air Base (section Arresting gear)
The airfield is fitted with a NATO standard arrestor cable system, as well as Swedish standard arresting net. For normal air force operational reasons...
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USS Midway the same year. Despite the new markings, in both cases the arresting gear and barriers were still aligned with the centerline of the original...
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specified that any conversion would use US C-13 steam catapults and Mark 7 Arresting gear as used by the American Nimitz-class carriers. Four months later on...
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for other aircraft carriers. Argus also evaluated various types of arresting gear, general procedures needed to operate a number of aircraft in concert...
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operate, maintain, and perform organizational maintenance on catapults, arresting gear, barricades, and associated flightdeck launching and recovery equipment;...
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Tricycle gear is a type of aircraft undercarriage, or landing gear, arranged in a tricycle fashion. The tricycle arrangement has a single nose wheel in...
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CATOBAR (redirect from Catapult Assisted Take-Off But Arrested Recovery)
carriers RICHARD SCOTT (June 8, 2023), "U.K. Considering Adding Catapults, Arresting Gear to Aircraft Carriers", USNI News DZIRHAN MAHADZIR (May 1, 2024), "Chinese...
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maintenance and repair facilities instead of aircraft catapults and arresting gear, and entered service as aircraft maintenance carriers. The final six...
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An engineered materials arrestor system, engineered materials arresting system (EMAS), or arrester bed is a bed of engineered materials built at the end...
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feature the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG). The current French aircraft carrier, the nuclear-powered Charles...
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Conventional landing gear, or tailwheel-type landing gear, is an aircraft undercarriage consisting of two main wheels forward of the center of gravity...
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with the fifth vessel built with improved features like catapults and arresting gear. This resulted in the Project 1143.5 (Kuznetsov-class) plan created...
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had no brakes at the time it was designed. That era's fore-and-aft arresting gear, initially 320 feet (97.5 m) long on Furious, was not intended to stop...
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Landing gear is the undercarriage of an aircraft or spacecraft that is used for taxiing, takeoff or landing. For aircraft it is generally needed for both...
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four engines had four distinct nacelles. They once had their own landing gear wheel, but they were later combined to two nacelles with two engines each...
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system for division and corps commanders. It took off and landed (using arresting gear) on runways. It used a gimbaled EO/IR sensor to relay its video in real...
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Angled flight deck Enclosed hurricane bow Mirror landing system Mark 7 arresting gear Primary Flight Control moved to aft end of island Air conditioning No...
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used during the trials. The trials principally tested the longitudinal arresting gear used previously on the small aircraft carrier Argus. They were not intended...
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The Metal Gear franchise features a large number of characters created by Hideo Kojima and designed by Yoji Shinkawa. Its setting features several soldiers...
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