Navy’s magnetic launch system a success
Technology • December 2010 • Views: 1,267
By Christopher P. Cavas - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Dec 20, 2010 19:58:52 EST
The U.S. Navy’s new electro-magnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS) — perhaps the most critical unproven element in the first new aircraft carrier design in four decades — launched its first aircraft Dec. 18, manufacturer General Atomics has confirmed.
The launch of an F/A-18E Super Hornet supersonic strike fighter took place at Naval Air System Command’s facility at the Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst, N. J.,