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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:16:07 -0500, wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:03:10 +0100, Rob van Riel postulated : As I recal that was a publicity stunt to demonstrate the raw power of the catapults. A model T Ford that spent all of a mile in the air, wasn't it? When I was in a Navy airgroup (CVG-6 in the Fifties), it was standard procedure to launch a concrete filled "wagon" off the cats after a carrier left Portsmouth , VA yards to test the cats. The weight was supposed to simulate an aircraft of the time. Difficult to plot the trajectory from the flight deck but they went "way" out before arcing down to the water. Taking this way beyond reasonable speculation, has anyone else ever wondered about the effects a missile like this might have on another ship, as an emergency weapon :-) I would think that a Model T would disintegrate with the forces applied from a steam catapult. Most likely. I figured they must have put the poor thing on a purpose built sled or something. Then again, maybe it was just an item of roughly the same mass as a T Ford, or maybe the whole thing is an urban legend. The same would hold for any other car strapped to the cat; I doubt it would be recognisable as a car the instant the cat fired. Rob |
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