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Or you could just say that its typical of Ford design and build quality.
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Sol,
F-16's don't fly from carriers.
And they do this from time to time, rigging objects to the catapults and launching them. Small cars are a favorite. Though how they manage to hook the automobile to the catapult without ripping the undercarriage off is beyond me.
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car = tangible object
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I'm pretty sure it's photoshopped. Looks like there's evidence of a clone stamp work around the car.
And yeah, I'm also highly skeptical that you could hook up a small car to one of those things, fire it off, and not scatter chunks of it across the flight deck.
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Cats are set by weight. When they first test them after installation, they uses a small flatbed cart that weighs a ton or so & shoot it off the bow. Don't you guys ever watch Discovery Channel?
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Hmmmm, that line sounded a lot more interesting from "Today's Active Topics". Launching cats off carriers is just so much more mundane
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Well, gosh, my snarky reply wasn't technically accurate. OH NO! It is impossible for me to be snarky about that.
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Tom, I'm 99% sure it's completely legit. Why else would they have the entire crew standing on the flight deck. Doing that with a real jet wouldn't be smart, with the jet exhaust and all.
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They've done it before. It's a fairly common event on carriers, as far as shooting autmobiles with steam catapults off the bow of large naval vessels can be considered common.
And Sol, it would've been quite easy to make that snarky, with a Nixpicking reference of some kind.
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Ok, now I'm confused about who is talking about whom.
Crews gather on the deck for other things. Photoshop is a deft tool in the hands of some, so there's nothing saying that "aircraft carrier crew stand on deck" image and "catapult in action" image were taken together.
At the same time, if I had an aircraft carrier, I would so be shooting all kinds of things off the catapult. So, who knows.
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Why would the crew be huddled behind the catapults for any other reason but to watch the catapults?
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Instead of all of this conjecture and speculation, why don't we simply ask Wraith where he got the picture. I mean, the worst case scenario is that he got it from a random email....in which case we'd still have lost nothing. But hopefully, he'd have some real insight on the origins of this *cat* launching picture.
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quote:Originally posted by Mucus: Instead of all of this conjecture and speculation, why don't we simply ask Wraith where he got the picture. I mean, the worst case scenario is that he got it from a random email....in which case we'd still have lost nothing. But hopefully, he'd have some real insight on the origins of this *cat* launching picture.
Worst case scenario, I'm afraid . To be honest, I'd assumed it was photoshopped as well, but I can't offer any 'real insight'. Maybe we should e-mail the US Navy .
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