Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Arresting Gear

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  1. Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:49:12French carrier aviation: catapults, arresting gear and future aircraftNotable Point
  2. Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:29:28The immense carrier needed to operate a C-17Q&A
  3. Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?
    16:21How early carriers recovered aircraft with little machineryNotable Point
  4. The Backbone of Royal Navy Interwar Aviation, HMS Eagle(1918)! Key Ship Series 6 Ship 7
    34:50Eagle's balanced 1924 air group enters Mediterranean serviceChapter
  5. The Backbone of Royal Navy Interwar Aviation, HMS Eagle(1918)! Key Ship Series 6 Ship 7
    38:35A working test bed for interwar carrier technologyChapter
  6. The Backbone of Royal Navy Interwar Aviation, HMS Eagle(1918)! Key Ship Series 6 Ship 7
    53:27Swordfish, cross-deck wires, and Eagle's last prewar refitsChapter
  7. USS Midway is it magic or surviable? Key Ships Series 9: Ship 1
    29:02Modernization stretched the hull and the budgetChapter
  8. What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley!
    40:08Early arresting wires leave deck crews catching aircraft by handNotable Point
  9. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    3:12:13Could a modified B-25 land on a Midway-class carrier?Q&A
  10. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    3:29:06Why a runway emergency hook differs from carrier landing gearQ&A
  11. Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics
    2:18:21Could an F-8 Crusader operate from HMS Hermes?Q&A
  12. HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 7
    1:16:10Refit for faster aircraft and the Salerno landingsChapter
  13. Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources
    2:43:29Mosquito arrestor-hook failure at 18,000 poundsNotable Point
  14. Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI? Comment Response
    21:49French aircraft limits and carrier-system coevolutionNotable Point
  15. Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?
    1:54:10Deck-edge lifts and the first longitudinal arresting wiresQ&A
  16. Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War
    3:20:22Carrier landings demanded split-second deck coordinationChapter
  17. Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations
    5:25The fall of France opens the mid-Atlantic air gapChapter
  18. Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 1942
    8:09Use Italian engineering for simpler carrier equipmentNotable Point
  19. Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine
    1:20:37Why did early carriers use longitudinal wires?Q&A
  20. An Equitable Washington Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)
    32:42How early arresting wires kept aircraft on the deckNotable Point
  21. Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII
    1:38:42Longitudinal wires kept early carrier aircraft from falling overboardQ&A
  22. Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?
    30:26Heavier aircraft require new accelerators and arrestor gearQ&A
  23. A Book or Two to Review (17): Naval Aviation in the First World War
    1:54Flight-deck carrier design problems before 1914Chapter
  24. Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)
    1:02:36Colin Mitchell and the engineering behind steam catapultsChapter
  25. Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)
    1:38:37Was there a carrier-based Hawker Hunter?Q&A
  26. Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)
    2:48:28Hangars, aviation fuel, and arresting gear reshape a carrierNotable Point
  27. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 4: 1920s Aircaft Carriers of the Big 3
    3:48Early carriers solve launch and landing hazardsNotable Point
  28. The Fairey Story Anew...
    1:32:37Flycatcher operations expose an unsettled carrier-landing systemChapter
  29. Blackburn Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s a long patrol (& introduction)
    38:57Ripon: torpedo strike meets long reconnaissanceChapter
  30. Blackburn Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s a long patrol (& introduction)
    1:24:19Skua turns Henderson's carrier requirement into a fighter-dive-bomberChapter
  31. Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!
    1:06:07Why aircraft and carrier design must matchQ&A