Way too much Army stuff going on around here. Time to splice the mainbrace...shiver up the foc'sle...the smoking lamp is lit in all spaces...as is the drinking lamp, but don't get caught! Avast ye buggers.....Bow, you have a green - launch 'em! This pic is of a F/A-18 from the US Marine Corps squadron onboard USS Harry S Truman taking a catapult launch from one of the waist catapults. VMFA-312, known as the Checkerboards, fly the original model of the Hornet, the C-model. Catapult launches are some of the coolest things one can do - if you add up all the piece parts like a 50,000+ lb jet aircraft in full afterburner, 16,000 lbs or so of fuel a few feet behind you, a nuclear reactor creating the 520 degree and psi steam to drive a 4,000 lb catapult shuttle the 300 feet or so to accelerat your beasty aerospace war machine to a flyable 130 or so knots. Back to your regular programming :)
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Nov 14 2009, 12:34 PM
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