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Only on aircraft carriers and with specially strong aircraft.

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There are more but these are just a few: Aircraft Catapult, Slingshot Catapult, and an Onager Catapult.

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A catapult system is used to launch aircraft form the deck of aircraft carriers.

They are used in movies and for period specific theme parks.

They are also used to launch pumpkins in competition.

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Owen designed a new catapult for the navy to use on its aircraft carriers. Lady Taylor Smith

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Commander Colin C. Mitchell of the Royal Naval Reserve. In 1954, he suggested taking steam from the ship's main boiler to power the aircraft catapult.

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A catapult launch lift is a system used to launch aircraft from an aircraft carrier. It works by using steam or hydraulic pressure to propel the aircraft along the flight deck and into the air, allowing it to achieve the necessary takeoff speed in a shorter distance than a traditional runway. This system provides the necessary acceleration for the aircraft to become airborne safely.

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US carriers have been using a steam powered catapult since the first introduction of catapult assisted aircraft launch. THe newest US Carrier, USS George Bush, uses an electro-magnetic railgun style launcher.

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A catapult launch lift, also known as a ski jump, is a mechanism used on aircraft carriers to launch aircraft. It involves using a steam or hydraulic system to rapidly accelerate the aircraft along a sloped ramp and into the air. This helps overcome the lack of available runway length on the carrier's deck and enables the aircraft to achieve the necessary takeoff speed.

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It's a shock absorbing mechanism used on Navy aircraft carriers to catch the launch bridal attached to the underside of Navy aircraft. It connected the aircraft with the catapult shuttle. The Navy now uses a T-bar connected to the nose wheel.

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Catapult has a t least 3 meanings, -a military machine for hurling missiles, such as large stones or spears, used in ancient and medieval times.

A mechanism for launching aircraft at a speed sufficient for flight, as from the deck of a carrier.

A slingshot as used by small boys.

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The F-14 can take off from a conventional land based runway or from the deck of an aircraft carrier utilizing the ship's catapult system.

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A Trebuchet Catapult

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Catapult is a noun.

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where was the catapult used

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There are many ways a catapult has affected society. most of our modern day war machines even guns could be considered as catapults. catapults are still used today on aircraft carriers to lurnch jets. Many old cranes could have even been designed from catapults.

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A glider is a light engineless aircraft designed to glide after being towed aloft or launched from a catapult.

A glider is also a species of small possum, native to Australia. As its name suggests, it is capable of gliding through the air.

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A mangonel is a kind of catapult.

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A mangonel is a catapult, not a bridge.

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how did you incresed the accuacy of your catapult

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Who invented the rocket Catapult

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They used the catapult for war.

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f-22 is an air force plane; air force planes don't land on aircraft carriers it would kill their landing gear.

F-22s don't have arrestor gear or the means of attaching to the catapult system.

The F-35 is the newest carrier born aircraft currently still in the testing phase

of carrier landings. Different versions are built,one being a verticle take off and landing capable plane the other being a catapult launched version.

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Another work for catapult is trebuchet.

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catapult ammo can be anything from cows, to boulders.

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Because the catapult is effective.

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The catapult was invented in the Middle Age.

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a catapult yes. a trebuchet no

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The word catapult came from ancient greece. It was also invented there. It means from two seperate words kata pultos

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a trebuchet is a type of catapult. it used a counter weight

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it was not a catapult it was a trebushete (pronawnced treb-you-shey)

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A catapult is actually a compound machine.

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Gutenberg invented the printing press not the catapult

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Staten Island Catapult was created in 2005.

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Why dont you name your catapult after a Roman or Greek God

Eg: Kronos, Venus

Or after a real catapult

Eg: Big Bertha

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If you mean descRibe a catapult, then here it is. A catapult is a machine that can fire projectiles at enimies. If you wish to make a simple catapult, then your wish comes true right here!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEtUVHvfy6g

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the first true naval aircraft in sight of the aircraft carrier operations would be the sopwith pup, used by the royal navy in aircraft carrier testing.

in terms of the first catapult aircraft, it would be USS North Carolina during the great war. it was the first official successful ship-bound launch.

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Full thrust with afterburner and a steam catapault system that grips the front landing gear- pulls it forward to about 140 knotsin 1.5 seconds and then releases. CVN 79 (Carrier Vessel, Nuclear) and onward will use electromagnetic catapult systems.

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In some ways, yes. A trebuchet can hurl objects farther and higher than a catapult, but a catapult can throw with more force.

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the difference in the ancient catapult and a canon are that the canon is more of a gun and uses gunpowder where as the catapult usesrope as a booster to sling the rock!

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A catapult uses elastic potential energy stored in the tension of its ropes or springs to launch a projectile. When the ropes or springs are released, this potential energy is converted into kinetic energy, propelling the object forward. The transformation of potential energy to kinetic energy allows the catapult to launch projectiles with force and speed.

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Yes, it is a catapult. Just like a mangonel but not a trebuchet.

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The duration of Staten Island Catapult is 3060.0 seconds.

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He didn't invent the catapult it was dionysius and he invented it in 399 B.C.

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what is unlocking code of crazy pinguin catapult

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No. An inclined plane can be used to steer the projectile but that is incidental to the catapult.

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That is the correct spelling of catapult (ancient flinging weapon, or to be flung upward).

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These devices come from antiquity. Remember the Biblical tale of David using a slingshot to vanquish the giant Goliath. The Australian Aborigines Woomera, a throwing stick is quite similar, and dates to at least 5000 years ago.

The Romans developed Catapults into an efficient and powerful war weapon.

They do not necessarily need elastic as an energy store.

In aeronautics, we use the gravitational well of a planet as a slingsot to enhance the speed of a exploratory vessel.

In the above uses, the operating principle is similar to that of an aircraft catapult as used on aircraft carriers.

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The energy in a catapult is stored as potential energy, specifically elastic potential energy. This energy is stored in the stretched material of the catapult, such as a spring or elastic band, ready to be converted into kinetic energy when the catapult is released.

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