• Thumbnail for Launch and recovery cycle
    Aircraft carrier air operations include a launch and recovery cycle of embarked aircraft. Launch and recovery cycles are scheduled to support efficient use...
    14 KB (1,916 words) - 02:48, 5 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carrier-based aircraft
    HAL TEDBF Shenyang FC-31 naval variant F/A-XX Escort carrier Launch and recovery cycle Modern United States Navy carrier air operations Naval aviation...
    11 KB (1,243 words) - 17:16, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Modern United States Navy carrier air operations
    Aircrew Cyclic operations refers to the launch and recovery cycle for aircraft in groups or "cycles". Launching and recovering aircraft aboard aircraft carriers...
    35 KB (4,653 words) - 18:49, 29 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aircraft carrier
    An angled deck also improves launch and recovery cycle flexibility with the option of simultaneous launching and recovery of aircraft. Conventional ("tailhook")...
    135 KB (13,298 words) - 17:06, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of the aircraft carrier
    of aircraft carriers and induced further refinement of their launch and recovery cycle leading to several design variants. The USA built small escort...
    60 KB (7,228 words) - 00:34, 22 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi
    of convergent evolution to improve launch and recovery cycle flexibility by allowing simultaneous launch and recovery of aircraft. Akagi's main flight deck...
    69 KB (8,974 words) - 07:16, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Courageous (50)
    forward of the main flight deck. The flying-off deck improved launch and recovery cycle flexibility until new fighters requiring longer takeoff rolls...
    27 KB (3,244 words) - 14:43, 2 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flight deck
    part of the deck and recovered on the after part. This allowed increased complements but resulted in a lengthened launch and recovery cycle as aircraft were...
    37 KB (4,750 words) - 19:30, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga
    converging in separate attempts to improve launch and recovery cycle flexibility by allowing simultaneous launch and recovery of aircraft. Kaga's main flight deck...
    63 KB (8,268 words) - 07:45, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Furious (47)
    place for use by small aircraft like fighters which improved launch and recovery cycle flexibility allowing the ship to simultaneously land aircraft...
    51 KB (6,872 words) - 11:50, 29 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Glorious
    HMS Glorious (category Ships built by Harland and Wolff)
    forward of the main flight deck. The lower flying-off deck improved launch and recovery cycle flexibility until heavier fighters requiring longer takeoff rolls...
    42 KB (5,096 words) - 17:59, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Organic Rankine cycle
    following: Waste heat recovery is one of the most important development fields for the organic Rankine cycle (ORC). It can be applied to heat and power plants...
    16 KB (1,652 words) - 11:38, 23 April 2024
  • Atlantic Theater aircraft carrier operations during World War II (category Naval battles and operations of World War II)
    had not launched bombers to protect her from such warships, perhaps in part because of inability to sustain an effective launch and recovery cycle with her...
    148 KB (19,817 words) - 11:13, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rocket Lab Electron
    Rocket Lab Electron (category Expendable space launch systems)
    reusability was pursued to meet launch demands. To counteract decreased payload capacity caused by the added mass of recovery hardware, performance improvements...
    46 KB (4,007 words) - 23:09, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS Saratoga (CV-60)
    completed six transits of the Suez Canal and completed approximately 11,000 aircraft launch and recovery cycles. Saddam Hussein claimed on Iraqi television...
    41 KB (4,642 words) - 10:37, 3 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Landing signal officer
    facilitate the "safe and expeditious recovery" of naval aircraft aboard aircraft carriers. LSOs aboard smaller air capable ships that launch and recover helicopters...
    17 KB (2,171 words) - 21:11, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for SpaceX Merlin
    SpaceX Merlin (category Rocket engines using the gas-generator cycle)
    Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles. Merlin engines use RP-1 and liquid oxygen as rocket propellants in a gas-generator power cycle. The Merlin...
    51 KB (5,147 words) - 06:50, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Social cycle theory
    society and human history as progressing in some new, unique direction(s), sociological cycle theory argues that events and stages of society and history...
    41 KB (4,958 words) - 15:13, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kinetic energy recovery system
    A kinetic energy recovery system (KERS) is an automotive system for recovering a moving vehicle's kinetic energy under braking. The recovered energy is...
    24 KB (2,521 words) - 14:04, 3 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aqua (satellite)
    Aqua (satellite) (category Spacecraft launched in 2002)
    evaporation, and cycling of water. It is the second major component of the Earth Observing System (EOS) preceded by Terra (launched 1999) and followed by...
    13 KB (1,287 words) - 14:55, 22 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for GRAIL
    The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) was an American lunar science mission in NASA's Discovery Program which used high-quality gravitational...
    36 KB (2,829 words) - 17:46, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System
    an F/A-18F Super Hornet. By April 2021, 8,000 launch/recovery cycles had been performed with the EMALS and the AAG arrestor system aboard USS Gerald R....
    29 KB (2,944 words) - 08:26, 2 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for NATO Submarine Rescue System
    (C17/C5/An124/A400M). It is capable of launch and recovery in a significant wave height of up to 5 metres (sea state 6) and can reach any distressed submarine...
    7 KB (901 words) - 10:19, 27 March 2024
  • Buildings and constructed assets. Service life planning is currently being launched (September 2008). The life cycle costing standard and the additional...
    5 KB (643 words) - 08:34, 6 June 2022
  • New Glenn is a heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle developed by Blue Origin, named after NASA astronaut John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit...
    51 KB (4,815 words) - 00:43, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Apollo 11
    Apollo 11 (category Spacecraft launched by Saturn rockets)
    Special recovery equipment was also loaded, including a boilerplate command module used for training. On July 12, with Apollo 11 still on the launch pad,...
    184 KB (19,451 words) - 12:30, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rocket Lab
    manufacturer and launch service provider that operates and launches lightweight Electron orbital rockets used to provide dedicated launch services for...
    135 KB (11,013 words) - 04:09, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Launch window
    spaceflight, launch period is the collection of days and launch window is the time period on a given day during which a particular rocket must be launched in order...
    11 KB (1,271 words) - 18:49, 7 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for United Launch Alliance
    United Launch Alliance, LLC, commonly referred to as ULA, is an American aerospace manufacturer, defense contractor and launch service provider that manufactures...
    123 KB (12,476 words) - 12:15, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Space Launch System
    segment, new avionics, and lighter insulation, but lack a parachute recovery system, as they will not be recovered after launch. The propellants for the...
    184 KB (15,300 words) - 19:20, 14 May 2024