World War Two experimental catapult unearthed by archaeologists

[Nearly Sane]

'I told you it wasn't going to work'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-67052782

[SqueakyVoice]

Don't the Navy aircraft's use the same theory? To reduce the length of their airstrips and increase the speed of the aircraft?

[jeremyp]

Don't the Navy aircraft's use the same theory? To reduce the length of their airstrips and increase the speed of the aircraft?

Famously, not our Navy, although we could retrofit catapults to our aircraft carriers.

Anyway, yes, but the aircraft have to be designed to stand the stresses of catapult launch. And there were no catapults on WW2 aircraft carriers.

[SqueakyVoice]

Famously, not our Navy, although we could retrofit catapults to our aircraft carriers.

Anyway, yes, but the aircraft have to be designed to stand the stresses of catapult launch. And there were no catapults on WW2 aircraft carriers.

Strangely enough that reminded me that in the Falkland war, the navy used Harrier Jump jets, could be for the same reasons.

[jeremyp]

Strangely enough that reminded me that in the Falkland war, the navy used Harrier Jump jets, could be for the same reasons.

The last carrier we had with a catapult was HMS Ark Royal, decommissioned three years before the Falklands War. You are 100% right. That's exactly the reason we only used Harriers in the war.