Dry load testing the Ford's cat

[scooter]

EMALS testing

[kerick]

That is the funniest video I've seen in a long time. I can just imagine some nit wit wanting to ride that little car off the carrier!

[PR19_Kit]

Excellent stuff! 

It's  great to see the test car accelerate slowly away from the blocks, unlike a steam cat which REALLY fires the aircraft from a standing start. My ex-employers started off that project years ago now in order to build crash simulators for cars, and we installed the biggest one in the world at Volvo in Gothenberg. During the development they figured that gradual acceleration at the start cut down on damage to the specimen BEFORE it hit the crash block! 

They sold that part of the company to someone else, and I find it odd that the contractor isn't mentioned anywhere.

[zenrat]

...I can just imagine some nit wit wanting to ride that little car off the carrier!

Adam Savage?


I hope that this equipment is controlled from a desk behind which stands a man in a red shirt who launches by sliding a control upon the command "energise".

[Captain Canada]

Very cool. And the next video of the C doing cat shots is pretty cool as well !

[Joe C-P]

...I can just imagine some nit wit wanting to ride that little car off the carrier!

Adam Savage?

I hope that this equipment is controlled from a desk behind which stands a man in a red shirt who launches by sliding a control upon the command "energise".

Buster, of course! That would be a sight to see, though they'd need to dive to recover their crash test dummy for the next show.