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Friday, May 20, 2011
Navy takes delivery of first components for electromagnetic aircraft launch system for new aircraft carrier
Designers of the U.S. Navy's future aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) are taking another step toward deploying the nation's first electromagnetically powered carrier-based aircraft catapult systems with the 9 May delivery of the first set of Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) production components for installation in the Ford, which is under construction at the Huntington Ingalls Industries shipyard in Newport News, Va.
The Ford is the first aircraft carrier of the CVN 78 class and will become the Navy's newest class of aircraft carrier, succeeding today's newest Nimitz-class carriers.
While the Nimitz-class carriers and all other active U.S. aircraft carriers have steam-powered aircraft catapults, the Ford-class carriers will have EMALS electric aircraft launch capability, which uses a linear motor drive instead of the steam pistons used today's carriers. EMALS will reduce reduces stress on aircraft because it accelerates them more gradually to takeoff speed than steam-powered catapults.
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