{"id":188036,"date":"2010-12-25T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/25\/electromagnetic-aircraft-launch-system-emals-tested\/"},"modified":"2010-12-25T06:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T11:43:00","slug":"electromagnetic-aircraft-launch-system-emals-tested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/25\/electromagnetic-aircraft-launch-system-emals-tested\/","title":{"rendered":"Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) Tested"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><object height=\"244\" width=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/euLsg_viWW0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/euLsg_viWW0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"390\" height=\"244\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2010\/12\/video-navys-electromagnetic-plane-launch\/\">Danger Room<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The US Navy has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A6d9e65d5-5add-447a-9a6e-f091e645c472\">conducted its first successful test of the EMALS electric catapult at its Lakehurst, NJ air field<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The navy is doubtless heaving a sigh of relief, as the Ford class carriers were designed to mount these catapults, and retrofitting steam catapults would be very involved.<\/p>\n<p>The British are probably even more relieved, as their carrier(s) have gas turbine propulsion, and so have no steam available, so without this, they would just be big floating anvils.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a similar technology the Navy&#8217;s recently tested railgun, but the energy storage is mechanical (flywheels) on the catapult, and solid state (capacitors) on the railgun.<\/p>\n<p>Given the state of the art in capacitors, it probably makes sense, since the rail gun is much higher power (a few orders of magnitude), and lower energy (by around a factor of 5) than the catapult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H\/t Danger Room The US Navy has conducted its first successful test of the EMALS electric catapult at its Lakehurst, NJ air field. The navy is doubtless heaving a sigh of relief, as the Ford class carriers were designed to mount these catapults, and retrofitting steam catapults would be very involved. The British are probably &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1006,1161,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-military","category-naval","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}