Flywheels For The Navy

David_Jay · Post by **David_Jay** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:36 am

Love to have one of these to kick start the BFG.

thought you'd like it...

Billy Catringer · Post by **Billy Catringer** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:30 pm

Has anyone ever built a Faraday Wheel out of superconducting material? Might get some interesting results.

David_Jay · Post by **David_Jay** » Fri Dec 24, 2010 12:50 am

EMALS has been successfully shore tested, video of the first F/A-18 launch at the link below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... uLsg_viWW0

ltgbrown · Post by **ltgbrown** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 9:59 pm

Nice video! Brings back lots of memories from when I flew Hawkeyes and was a Mini Boss.

By the way, "which is obviously big enough to launch an E-3 and more", has a typo. Should be E-2. E-3 is a 707 airframe Air Force (wusses) plane.

krenshala · Post by **krenshala** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:33 pm

ltgbrown wrote:Should be E-2. E-3 is a 707 airframe Air Force (wusses) plane.

Hey hey! I resemble that remark (former USAF).

I agree, it is a mistake they shouldn't have made in the article. Same (well, extremely similar) job, but definitely different aircraft.