aircraft catapult

In 1933, aircraft catapults were fitted between the two rear turrets.

To this end, aircraft catapults and launch-rails were also refitted.

They would have been launched by a pair of aircraft catapults, one on each side of the aircraft platform.

She was refitted to accommodate three Type 90 Model 0 floatplanes, though no aircraft catapults were fitted.

She carried four floatplanes, housed in two hangars, with a pair of aircraft catapults mounted amidships.

In the early 1930s, traverse arresting gear was installed and she received two hydraulic aircraft catapults on the upper flight deck before March 1934.

She was equipped with four seaplanes and a pair of aircraft catapults and a crane for handling the aircraft were mounted on the stern.

Two more were fitted with maintenance and repair facilities instead of aircraft catapults and arresting gear, and entered service as aircraft maintenance carriers.

Electromagnetic aircraft catapults are planned, including on board future U.S. Gerald R. Ford class aircraft carriers.

When they were commissioned during World War II, the Iowa-class battleships came equipped with two aircraft catapults designed to launch floatplanes.

Aircraft carriers use jet blast deflectors at the rear of aircraft catapults, positioned such that other aircraft may be otherwise damaged by exhaust blast.

The British Admiralty invites bids for aircraft catapults for the first time, asking for electric, hydraulic, and compressed air catapults.

Later versions were designed to be launched from coastal air bases and caves, and even from submarines equipped with aircraft catapults, although none were actually used this way.

Three (Pringle, Stevens, Halford) were built (six planned) with aircraft catapults, resulting in the deletion of one 5-inch mount and the after set of torpedo tubes.

The onboard flight systems of the Baltimore-class cruisers during World War II consisted of two aircraft catapults on the side edges of the aft deck.

That same day, one of the ship's sailors was crushed and killed while working from a small harbor boat to secure a drain that discharges oily water from Stennis' aircraft catapults.

Special variants called aircraft catapults are used to launch planes from land bases and sea carriers when the takeoff runway is too short for a powered takeoff or simply impractical to extend.

The triple mounts were fitted on the upper deck, aft of the aircraft catapults, and the twin mounts were one deck lower, covered by hatches in the side of the hull.

After arriving at New York Harbor on 16 May, Ranger entered the Norfolk Navy Yard to have her flight deck strengthened, new aircraft catapults installed, and radar equipment updated.

She underwent modifications in 1917 to standardize her firing control and searchlight systems and had another modification in 1918 to install aircraft catapults on her B and Q, or second and third, turrets.

In 1930, she served as a test platform for aircraft catapults installed in front of her bridge and, in 1933-34 received a rotating catapult amidships as well as a new mainmast to support an aircraft derrick.

Cohen, M. M., "Pilot Disorientation During Aircraft Catapult Launchings at Night: Historical and Experimental Perspectives", Aeromedical & Training Digest, (Jul., 1992), vol.

Hawaii would have also been able to launch the JB-2 "Loon" cruise missile from a hydraulic catapult installed on her forward flight deck; lastly, an aircraft crane and twin aircraft catapults were to be added on the stern of the ship.

In 2001, during a pre-deployment trial, Kennedy was found to be severely deficient in some respects, especially those relating to air group operations; most problematic, two aircraft catapults and three aircraft elevators were non-functional during inspection, and two boilers would not light.