US Navy Tests New Aircraft Carrier By Catapulting Cars Into James River
The crew of America’s newest aircraft carrier have been catapulting cars into the sea to test its electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS). A team from Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division and the crew of the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) began “dead-load” testing in late February. In this phase, large, wheeled, car-like structures of ...
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