“The Advanced Arresting Gear has become a model for how not to ... current arrested landing and catapult systems and expand the types of aircraft that can make an arrested land on a carrier.

Tom Moore said in October that having only one type of airplane to work with during the shakedown would be okay because “the catapults and arresting gear are agnostic to what type of planes land ...

"Our [arresting gear] engines are set at a specific weight resistance for each type of aircraft," said Depaz. "The aircraft tail hook catches the cross deck pendant [CDP], which is attached to the ...

Land-based military airfields operating combat jets use arresting gear systems to slow the aircraft down. There are three basic types of land-based systems: permanent, expeditionary, and overrun gear.

The US Navy recently achieved a milestone in the development of the Advanced Arresting Gear for its new Ford-class aircraft carriers. During a test at the Runway Arrested Landing Site in Lakehurst ...