How do planes take off and land on aircraft carriers?
In the new Top Gun we will see Tom Cruise, or rather Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, take off from an American super carrier, aboard a Boeing F / A-18 Super Hornet. But how does a nearly 3000 kg plane take off in few tens of meters of an aircraft carrier? The secret is contained in a mechanism called “catapult” for take-off and with a system of cables for fitting... Read more: https://www.aerospacengineering.net/how-do-planes-take-off-and-land-on-aircraft-carriers/
