Not all aircraft carriers launch planes the same way. Some use steam or electromagnetic catapults to "fling" aircraft into the air. Others use a ski jump: a simple upward-curved ramp that lets ...

The catapults, identical to those that launch airplanes aboard Navy carriers, are used to tweak and test the 1950s launch technology. But Sulich’s interest lies a few steps away, in a concrete ...

China’s state broadcaster has given a glimpse of the cutting-edge jet launch system in action on ... CCTV included the footage of the electromagnetic catapult system in a report last week ...

Both ships, which are named the Liaoning and Shandong, respectively, lack catapults. However, they are equipped with a ski ramp to launch fixed-wing aircraft, which has so far only included the J-15.