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单词 catapult launching
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catapult launching
a. A mechanical contrivance by which aircraft are launched at a high speed; also attributive. So catapult launching, etc.
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1927 Daily Express 12 Dec. 11/4 Béarn, new aircraft carrier, will carry forty airplanes to be launched by a compressed air catapult at forty-seven miles per hour after a run of sixty-five feet along the deck.
1928 Times 28 Aug. 12/6 Catapult Air Mail.
1929 Air Ann. Brit. Empire 56 Catapult launching which has been successfully developed and can be used from ships.
1934 Flight 15 Feb. 148/1 For use as a catapult ship on the South Atlantic route.
1940 E. C. Shepherd Britain's Air Power 11 The aeroplane is set on the catapult carriage while its engine is started and run up.
1941 W. S. Churchill Secret Session Speeches (1946) 39 A number of special vessels carrying catapult Hurricane aircraft are employed on patrolling duties.
1959 Times 28 Apr. 11/7 Eagle..equipped to take the new generation of aircraft, made possible by the installation of steam catapults.
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