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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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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Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) catapult and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) instead of the more conventional systems which the design had...
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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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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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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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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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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 all...
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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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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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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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operate, maintain, and perform organizational maintenance on catapults, arresting gear, barricades, and associated flightdeck launching and recovery equipment;...
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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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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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to carry the ship's fire-control system. Fifteen different types of arresting gear were evaluated before the British longitudinal wire system was adopted...
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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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Tricycle gear is a type of aircraft undercarriage, or landing gear, that is arranged in a tricycle fashion. The tricycle arrangement has one or more nose...
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allowed on the aircraft, as well as minor maintenance on the catapult and arresting gear. Alert crew Alert state COGCON DEFCON Mobilization Scrambling (military)...
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which had no brakes at that time. The fore-and-aft 320-foot (97.5 m) arresting gear was not intended to stop landing aircraft—the landing speeds of the...
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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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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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Convair Model 200 (category Aircraft with retractable tricycle landing gear)
versions were planned for conventional catapult launches and landing using arresting gear. The Convair Model 200 was designed in 1973 as a single-jet fighter...
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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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