> In my day they consisted of a pulley system forcing hydraulic fluid through > orifices. These orifices were adjusted to provide the right decelerating > force for each aircraft type. > > I seem to recall that a disk brake system was proposed. I don't think that > this was implemented in Royal Navy carriers, but may have been for modern US > carriers.
An aircraft, upon landing on a carrier, does not appear to slip backwards at all under the force of the arresting wire. It seems like a one-way spring. Jon _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
