How does an airplane lift off the ground? Learn how planes use lift and thrust to fly, then make your own paper airplane catapult. Design Squad is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS ...

Catapult officers, known as shooters, launch their boots off the flight deck in a final sendoff to mark the end of their tour.

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The more advanced a catapult system is, the more planes can be launched from an aircraft carrier.

The electromagnetic catapult should work much faster than the steam one, because the catapult doesn’t need reconfiguring between airplanes, even if it goes from launching a large fighter to a ...

The WWII catapult, designed to launch bomber planes in southeastern England, was never used.

America’s newest aircraft carrier uses “digital” catapult on fighter for first time Landing, launch of fighter off Va. coast first real test for ship’s troubled systems.

The catapult system manipulates steam pressure levels and, once high enough, uses the force of steam release to launch airplanes into the air.