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How Things Work: Electromagnetic Catapults
Air & Space magazine | Jan 5, 2007
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From zero to 150 in less than a second.
George Sulich stands astride one of two 333-foot-long steam-powered catapults aimed down the runway at the U.S. Naval Air Warfare center in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
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But Sulich’s interest lies a few steps away, in a concrete-and-steel trench more than 300 feet long, where a new catapult, also aimed down the runway, is under construction. When complete in 2008, it will be the first catapult to use electro-magnetics to launch manned aircraft. ...