Compressor stall…in the worst case scenario (part 2)

October 25, 2009 David Cenciotti Aircraft Carriers, Aviation Safety / Air Crashes, Military Aviation 2

In the previous post “Compressor stall…in the worst case scenario” I explained what a compressor stall (or surge) basing on a picture I took aboard USS Nimitz. I uploaded an image within that post that I created by merging two pictures I took one after the other. Since that picture provided a view of the last few seconds of the catapult launch by a VFA-86 F-18C, I thought it could be interesting to publish the whole take off sequence that you can find here below.
Compressor stall sequence

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