This is a catapult system I've been working on to help launch planes off of an aircraft carrier. It's still a prototype but it works pretty well already.
Control Sequence:
1) AG6 (on) to move piston into position
2) AG4 to compress springs/load plane
3) AG6 (off) to launch plane
Switch to plane control and use stage activation/AG1/thrust to start engine, ideally just before loading plane onto catapult and launching
For whatever reason, sometimes this catapult system starts to shake/break (about 25% of the time) which is mostly what I'm working on fixing. If you have a fix for this (without increasing stability) please let me know.
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181 CaptainCaleb
@DaBears alright I'll try to work on the mounting and on my Carrier Aircraft Arresting System (CAAS).
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1,161 DaBears
@CaptainCaleb Yeah man that sounds awesome. Unfortunately, I'm about to get super busy at work but I'll help whenever I have time. I tried mounting this to my aircraft carrier and there's definitely a lot of issues to work out but I think it's doable
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181 CaptainCaleb
It was great! wanna start an Air craft carrier (maybe eventually hovercarrier) community project? I have some arrester system ideas and you could mount the catapult.
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I thought pistons and a docking port would do it