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This is what it is like to be catapulted from an aircraft carrier using Electromagnetic Launch System

June 19, 2015 David Cenciotti 3

GoPro camera provides a unique point of view during a catapult launch using the new electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS). The following video was taken on Jun. 16, when ship’s sponsor Susan Ford Bales visited […]

F-35C first flight (and heat and noise concerns…)

June 14, 2010 David Cenciotti 1

On Jun. 6, 2010, piloted by Lockheed Martin Test Pilot Jeff Knowles’, a retired Naval Aviator and test pilot who flew F-14As and F-14Ds operationally’ and who was also chief test pilot on the F-117 […]