Instead, it's accomplished by something most people likely don't consider when thinking about how an aircraft carrier operates. Carriers use catapults to launch aircraft off the deck and into the ...

Not all aircraft carriers launch planes the same way. Some use steam or electromagnetic catapults to "fling" aircraft into the air. Others use a ski jump: a simple upward-curved ramp that lets ...

What is a boot shoot? A "boot shoot" commemorates the end of a tour or change of command for a catapult officer aboard an aircraft carrier. Launching their own pair of boots off the deck of the ...

A U.S. F/A-18 Super Hornet strike fighter takes off from the deck of USS aircraft carrier Nimitz during an exercise at sea on March 3, 2008 off the coast of South Korea. The catapult is a more ...

Ford, the Kennedy’s predecessor and first Navy aircraft carrier to feature it. (Former catapult systems were steam-powered.) The Kennedy was launched in 2019 after more than a decade of design ...

Carriers equipped with steam catapults almost always have at least one of their four catapults operational, meaning aircraft are always ready to be launched. Such reliability should not be taken ...

An aircraft carrier under construction on the Virginia ... Kennedy is testing its electromagnetic catapult systems—which are designed to send aircraft aloft—by shooting bright orange, car ...

The Navy and shipbuilder HII have begun launching 80,000-pound car-like structures off the future aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy to test the ship's catapult system. (HII) Topside testing of the ...

The U.K. Royal Navy is studying the introduction of aircraft launch and recovery systems onboard its two Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers ... and then to CATOBAR [catapult-assisted takeoff ...