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Carrier-Based Aircraft | American F-14 Tomcat Prepares
An American F-14 Tomcat prepares to take off from the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson by using a steam-powered catapult. Catapults draw their power directly from the carrier’s engines. They propel aircraft skyward using only 90 m (300 ft) of runway. (Carrier-Based Aircraft, American F-14 Tomcat prepares) Carrier-based airplanes are a specially modified type of land plane designed for takeoff from and landing aboard naval aircraft carriers. Carrier airplanes have a strengthened structure, including their landing gear, to handle the stresses of catapult-assisted takeoff, in which the craft is launched by a steam-driven catapult; and arrested landings, made by using a hook attached to the underside of the aircraft’s tail to catch one of four wires strung across the flight deck of the carrier. (Carrier-Based Aircraft, American F-14 Tomcat prepares) |
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