I’m always in search of new flying systems and today’s invention is a way to help aircraft escape the deck of a carrier.
These vessels have giant lifts which transport planes to the flightdeck from the bowels of the ship.
Imagine if, instead of a sedate journey upwards, the lift was designed to boost a plane (or several planes) vertically above the deck and say 30m into the sky.
The acceleration would be limited by the pilot’s tolerance for g-force, but at that height, the plane’s engines would fire up and allow it to clear the side of the deck as it fell seawards before gaining altitude and flying away.
