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Bolter (aeronautics)

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111: 95:, aircraft carrier landing areas ran along the axis of the ship. If an aircraft failed to catch an arrestor cable on the aft (rear) of the ship, it would still need to be stopped prior to hitting aircraft spotted (parked or taxiing) on the forward half of the deck. With aircraft spotted on the forward half of the flight deck, there was not enough room for an aircraft to become airborne again after missing the arrestor wires. Stopping an aircraft that failed to engage an arrestor cable was accomplished with either a wire barrier rigged amidships and raised to catch the aircraft's 357: 31: 46: 110: 133:
solved the problem of aircraft that failed to engage an arrestor wire, and created the routine option for aircraft to bolter. By angling the landing area off the ship's axis, thus avoiding obstructions forward of the landing area, aircraft that failed to arrest – that bolter – simply accelerate down
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the landing area and become airborne again. Bolter aircraft then climb back to landing pattern altitude and sequence in with other landing aircraft to re-attempt the landing. These bolter aircraft are said to be in the "bolter pattern".
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each carrier landing attempt on a scale of 0–5. Assuming the approach was safe and at least average, a bolter is graded as 2.5. For unsafe or below average approaches that result in bolter, a grade of 2 is assigned.
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that would engage the aircraft's wings. Either method often resulted in damage to the aircraft and required time to disengage. The introduction of
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The British were the first to describe aircraft that failed to arrest as bolters. When an aircraft bolters on a United States Navy carrier, the
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for carrier operations in the early 1950s, with their greater mass and higher approach speeds, exacerbated the problem.
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and come to a stop. Bolter aircraft accelerate at full throttle and become airborne in order to
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Dark Sky, Black Sea: Aircraft Carrier Night and All-Weather Operations
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that has failed to engage an arrestor wire on the aircraft carrier
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Strike: Beyond Top Gun: U.S. Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center
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occurs when an aircraft attempting an arrested landing on the
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Animation of a missed landing on a centreline flight deck (
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Aircraft that fails to hook onto aircraft carrier runway
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Bolter (aviation)

Yorktown-class aircraft carrier

Centaur-class aircraft carrier
naval aviation
flight deck
aircraft carrier
arrestor cable
go-around
angled flight deck
landing gear
net barricade
jet aircraft
Photograph from behind a twin-engined jet fighter. The aircraft's wheels are on the surface, but the engines are still active, and a hook on the underside of the aircraft is in contact with the surface and trailing sparks
F/A-18C Hornet
USS John C. Stennis
angled flight deck
Landing Signal Officer
grade
Modern US Navy carrier air operations
Arresting gear
Tailhook
"OPNAV INSTRUCTION 3710.7T"
the original




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