RSSMerry go round airplane launcher
Here's a neat idea from Popular Science 1933, best tested on MythBusters now (they just tested if a plane could take off from a treadmill)... a merry go round airplane launcher, what do you think would happen? At least it would be more fun than most airport experiences - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Feb 5, 2008 06:00 AM
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| Posted by: James on February 5, 2008 at 6:50 AM |
Dunno 'bout that one, but in the golden age of airships (think Zeppelin, not Blimp) the US Navy had dirigible "carriers" with little biplane fighters. The hangar was inside the zeppelin, and the planes would launch and recover from a trapeze-type arrangement. Talk about white-knuckle flying!
| Posted by: Russell Nelson on February 5, 2008 at 7:35 AM |
This problem with this arrangement is that the airplanes need to land as well. Otherwise it would be great -- you could launch airplanes from a downtown airport.
| Posted by: Paracetomal on February 5, 2008 at 9:04 AM |
Yah. It's called a helicopter. Welcome to the 21st century!
| Posted by: Brian Reynolds on February 5, 2008 at 10:18 AM |
The US military did something similar during WWII. It was called the Brodie landing system.
An arm swung out from the side of a ship and either dropped or caught a light observation plane. The L-4 Grasshopper (military Piper Cub) and L-5 Stinson Sentinel were among the planes to use this system.
There was a similar rig used by the Army for flying in and out of remote locations.
The arm didn't swing around like the one shown above, but the ship was moving during this operation.
| Posted by: doc on February 5, 2008 at 2:53 PM |
Wouldn't it be best if the plane were attached from its tail so that the release would be straight along its fuselage?
| Posted by: minimalniemand3000 on February 5, 2008 at 11:30 PM |
@doc: When released, the plane does not fly away from the center, but on a tangential path.
So if you attach it on the tail it would move sidewards, with one wing ahead.
You could also attach it on one wing, but the inertia would be to great so you'd have to make that wing extremely massive.
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