All I know is that we designed and delivered a nav console that could do
it. I spent 10 days on the Nimitz while it was being tested but we
never needed to run the ship backwards and I don't know if anyone ever has.
Perhaps the situation it's really designed for is wind speed over the
deck for the deck crew, not launch speed for the aircraft. Remember
that the only casualty on the Dolittle launches was a deck hand blown
into a prop.
Chuck Norcutt
On 12/12/2015 9:49 AM, ChrisB wrote:
Steam to the rear for takeoff? Not for fast jets, surely? If you
accept that the a loaded bomber will be off the ground (or deck) at
no less than around 170kts (based on what I can remember of a loaded
Tornado’s performance), and that the catapult can be adjusted for the
energy required, I had always thought that steaming forwards would be
the only necessity. I learn something new . . .
It was a heroic push, whatever the detail of the launch.
Chris
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