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Tailhook in Vegas - I know most people would like to forget about tailhook the infamous party, but should we have an article for it? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.134.189.218 ( talk • contribs) .
Might be worth explaining who call it what: the English call it an arrester hook , or sometimes an arrestor hook, folks from the USA tailhook (?). It's also wrong to say that the hook is attached to the empennage: it is not, it is attached to the lower rear fuselage. Empennage is a collective term for the rear aerodynamic stabilisers (fin plus tail plane) and it would be deeply unwise both structurally and geometrically to try to fix a hook to this! TSRL ( talk) 22:39, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Most land-based fighters also have tailhooks. This sounds very unlikely (yep! I've been wrong before) and desperately needs support; indeed I suggest it should be deleted within a few weeks unless the originators can justify it from some authoritative source. Of course, some aircraft unfitted for carrier landings have had arrestor hooks fitted for experimental and testing reasons, but that is not the point. TSRL ( talk) 23:00, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
There are articles from the 1950s talking about arresting gear installed at USAF bases. One article from 1962 talks about a 140 arresting gear systems installed at 70 Air Force bases. It describes the system as "the rotary-nylon tape, which engages a hook beneath an airplane" made by E.W. Bliss. It describes operation as "A hook would have engaged a wire rope pendant stretched across the runway and attached to nylon tapes wound on reels that play out the tape as the aircraft engages it. The reels are coupled with brakes to absorb the energy of the impact and gradually slow the plane to a stop." (At the end of the runway Marion Star, The. Marion, Ohio. Saturday, June 09, 1962. Page 27.} That sounds similar in concept to current systems. ESCO has a history page that makes it sound like current systems are based the ones designed in the 1950s. It also looks like the company attempted to sell the system for civil use in the early 1960s, not sure where that went, but it never happened even though there are quite a few runway over run accidents. -- Dual Freq ( talk) 23:23, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
Why don't the wheels get caught by the cable? Lestrade ( talk) 19:02, 31 August 2009 (UTC)Lestrade
I removed most of the unverifiable content, and improved the intro by adding that in land based aircraft, the tailhook is also used as a way to abort a takeoff (at the point were the aircraft has to much speed for the brakes to be effective) Aaron mcd ( talk) 18:37, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
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Tailhook in Vegas - I know most people would like to forget about tailhook the infamous party, but should we have an article for it? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.134.189.218 ( talk • contribs) .
Might be worth explaining who call it what: the English call it an arrester hook , or sometimes an arrestor hook, folks from the USA tailhook (?). It's also wrong to say that the hook is attached to the empennage: it is not, it is attached to the lower rear fuselage. Empennage is a collective term for the rear aerodynamic stabilisers (fin plus tail plane) and it would be deeply unwise both structurally and geometrically to try to fix a hook to this! TSRL ( talk) 22:39, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Most land-based fighters also have tailhooks. This sounds very unlikely (yep! I've been wrong before) and desperately needs support; indeed I suggest it should be deleted within a few weeks unless the originators can justify it from some authoritative source. Of course, some aircraft unfitted for carrier landings have had arrestor hooks fitted for experimental and testing reasons, but that is not the point. TSRL ( talk) 23:00, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
There are articles from the 1950s talking about arresting gear installed at USAF bases. One article from 1962 talks about a 140 arresting gear systems installed at 70 Air Force bases. It describes the system as "the rotary-nylon tape, which engages a hook beneath an airplane" made by E.W. Bliss. It describes operation as "A hook would have engaged a wire rope pendant stretched across the runway and attached to nylon tapes wound on reels that play out the tape as the aircraft engages it. The reels are coupled with brakes to absorb the energy of the impact and gradually slow the plane to a stop." (At the end of the runway Marion Star, The. Marion, Ohio. Saturday, June 09, 1962. Page 27.} That sounds similar in concept to current systems. ESCO has a history page that makes it sound like current systems are based the ones designed in the 1950s. It also looks like the company attempted to sell the system for civil use in the early 1960s, not sure where that went, but it never happened even though there are quite a few runway over run accidents. -- Dual Freq ( talk) 23:23, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
Why don't the wheels get caught by the cable? Lestrade ( talk) 19:02, 31 August 2009 (UTC)Lestrade
I removed most of the unverifiable content, and improved the intro by adding that in land based aircraft, the tailhook is also used as a way to abort a takeoff (at the point were the aircraft has to much speed for the brakes to be effective) Aaron mcd ( talk) 18:37, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
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