Quote: these extensions are called Bridle catchers,
The older carriers used a cable and pulley type of catapult a cable ran under the flight deck to a large pulley at the forward part of the catapult . A cable, with the bridle attached above deck, ran back down the deck to the launch position.
when a plane was launched the bridle was thrown forward, and so to stop damage from repeated strikes to the ships bow and to stop damaging the bridle itself these extensions were added, and called (unoriginally bridle extensions :lol these bridles would often also strike the rear of a an aircraft on launch .
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these extensions are called Bridle catchers,
The older carriers used a cable and pulley type of catapult a cable ran under the flight deck to a large pulley at the forward part of the catapult . A cable, with the bridle attached above deck, ran back down the deck to the launch position.
when a plane was launched the bridle was thrown forward, and so to stop damage from repeated strikes to the ships bow and to stop damaging the bridle itself these extensions were added, and called (unoriginally bridle extensions :lol these bridles would often also strike the rear of a an aircraft on launch .
Wrong. Older aircraft used a different mechanism on the landing gear to attach to the catapult shuttle. Part of the mechanism was a bridle (a cable actually) that attached the nose gear to the catapult shuttle during launch. The "prongs" on the end of the ship "caught" the bridle after launch for re-use. Newer aircraft have launch bars built into the nose gear that make the use of a bridle unnecessary.
Newer carriers all had the same catapults and they could and did operate A-4s (bridle launch) and F-14s (launch bar) together.
UH60FtRucker From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (4 years 4 months 23 hours ago) and read 9424 times:
Quoting Alien (Reply 4):
Wrong. Older aircraft used a different mechanism on the landing gear to attach to the catapult shuttle. Part of the mechanism was a bridle (a cable actually) that attached the nose gear to the catapult shuttle during launch
Alien From Romania, joined Oct 2009, 0 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (4 years 4 months 15 hours ago) and read 9316 times:
Whoops. the bridle attached to parts other than the nose gear of some aircraft. Gee UH60 must be a slow day in whatever miserable part of the world you are staying. Did you notice Spacepope make the correction first. I never took you for someone who put much stock in increasing your post count with redundant posts. Or was it you just liked being able to say "wrong"?
Woodreau From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 890 posts, RR: 7 Reply 11, posted (4 years 4 months 4 hours ago) and read 9152 times:
Quoting Poadrim (Thread starter): Is it to plug in the boat in to the recharge?(Just kidding!)
Carriers and all ships and submarines (boats) have that plug too. It's called the shore power connection (the ship's equivalent to external ground power for an airplane.)
Usually it will be several cables - for a small combatant it may be 3 electrical cables - for a carrier it may be 12 sets of electrical cables - it depends on the electrical design of the ship.
Whereas on an airplane it may be 28 VDC or 115v 3 phase 400Hz AC for a US ship it will be 450v 3 phase 60Hz AC. From there the ship has onboard equipment to convert it to DC and different "flavors" of AC, e.g. 115v 400Hz AC, 115v 60Hz AC, etc.
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