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It's a moving runway

• flr03 9y ago
  The track is narrow and short, with potential movements in 3 dimensions.
  • JackFr 9y ago
    6 dimensions
    • dingo_bat 9y ago
      3 space dimensions and one time dimension still doesn't add up to 6.
      • JackFr 9y ago
        3 spatial (up/down, right/left, back/front) + 3 rotational (pitch, yaw, roll)
• jonathanstrange 9y ago
  That doesn't make much of a difference, given how fast the plane moves. Being accurate enough in turbulent weather to catch the hook seems to be the main problem.
  • dragontamer 9y ago
    A plane moves slowest when its landing. Its not like they're landing at Mach-speeds.
    • jonathanstrange 9y ago
      I know this very well, but the point is that this is irrelevant anyway, because the relative movement of the carrier matter much less than the difficulty of catching the hook. Whether you match the speed to the carrier deck or to the ground makes (almost) no difference. It's not as if the carrier was suddenly accelerating while a plane lands. Catching the hook while the plane is in a controlled crash, that's the problem.