Question: Aircraft Carrier Part

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PaPa Peng - 31 Jul 2010 00:43 GMT

At the bow edge of a USN aircraft carrier flight deck are two
"planks" sticking out. They are in alignment with the aircraft
catapults. What are they called and what are they for?

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AMPSOne@aol.com - 31 Jul 2010 00:58 GMT

> At the bow edge of a USN aircraft carrier flight deck are two
> "planks" sticking out. They are in alignment with the aircraft
> catapults. What are they called and what are they for?

Basically they were only used on the angled deck Essex class upgrades
and the conventionally powered supercarriers. They are overrun ramps
for the catapult shoe and bridle in those catapults using them.

Modern catapults have a shoe which catches a bar on the nosegear and
therefore do not need any sort of device like that.

Cookie Sewell

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Matt Wiser - 31 Jul 2010 01:25 GMT

On Jul 30, 4:58 pm, AMPS...@aol.com wrote:

> > At the bow edge of a USN aircraft carrier flight deck are two
> > "planks" sticking out. They are in alignment with the aircraft
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>
> Cookie Sewell

Correct: and the first three Nimitz-class ships were the last to have
bridle catchers. And they're removed when they go into the yard for
RICOH. Nimitz had three, Ike two (on the bow), and Carl Vinson only
one on the starboard bow cat.

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