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The risk assessments are a teeny bit different. Edit: although maybe there's a good idea: catapult or winch launch for electric aircraft would massively reduce
by HPsquared 2y ago
The risk assessments are a teeny bit different.
Edit: although maybe there's a good idea: catapult or winch launch for electric aircraft would massively reduce the power and energy storage requirements to be carried onboard.
- WalterBright 2y agoLook at all the effort that goes into launching an airplane with a catapult on an aircraft carrier. There are other issues - like you cannot abort a catapult in progress.
- HPsquared 2y agoBeing constrained to a ship makes things harder though. If it was simply very long (runway length), I reckon an abort would be fine. There are probably a lot of different ways to do it. But yeah, much harder than a regular runway. Probably not economical.