Launch an 80,000-Pound Sled off an Aircraft Carrier? Sure!

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Launch an 80,000-Pound Sled off an Aircraft Carrier? Sure!
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How do you solve the problem of having a short runway? Sling the airplanes into the sky with a electromagnetic catapult, of course! (From 2019)

is the starting position. I'll just let the starting position be zero meters. Oh, the horizontal velocity will be the 92.6 m/s as stated in the video.

Since I don't have the flight deck height, I'm going to use another method to get the time. I'm going to get the time from the video. The video of the sled launch isn't perfect for video analysis since it doesn't show a nice side view of the motion. But I can still use video analysis to get the time it takes to leave the flight deck and hit the water.

If I put that time into the horizontal motion equation along with the velocity of 92.6 m/s, I get a horizontal distance of 182.2 meters. That is on the order of two football fields long . But there is your answer.

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