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The base employs approximately 2,000 personnel consisting of full-time Active Guard and Reserve (AGR), Air Reserve Technicians (ART) and traditional part-time Air National Guardsmen. ANG personnel maintain the BAK-14 arresting gear on the airport's primary runway for emergency use by military tactical jet aircraft.
An F-14 Tomcat descends to make an arresting gear landing on the flight deck of USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) in 2002. An arresting gear, or arrestor gear, is a mechanical system used to rapidly decelerate an aircraft as it lands.
The runway has BAK-14 arresting gear on both ends for emergency arrestment of US and NATO/Allied fighter and other tactical fixed-wing aircraft. Runway 14/32 is the airport's secondary runway, 8,002 by 150 feet (2,439 m × 46 m). Runway 9/27 is 4,001 by 75 feet (1,220 m × 23 m), used by general aviation. [1] [18]
A tailhook, arresting hook, or arrester hook is a device attached to the empennage (rear) of some military fixed-wing aircraft. The hook is used to achieve rapid deceleration during routine landings aboard aircraft carrier flight decks at sea, or during emergency landings or aborted takeoffs at properly equipped airports.
An engineered materials arrestor system, engineered materials arresting system (EMAS), or arrester bed [1] is a bed of engineered materials built at the end of a runway to reduce the severity of the consequences of an aircraft running off the end of a runway. Engineered materials are defined in FAA Advisory Circular No 150/5220-22B as "high ...
The Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) is a type of arresting gear developed by General Atomics for the U.S. Navy's newest Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers. It was deployed in 2017 on the lead ship of the class, the USS Gerald R. Ford. [1] It replaces the MK 7 hydraulic arresting gear which is in use on the ten Nimitz-class aircraft carriers ...
Constant tension is intentionally maintained on the cable via an automatically-adjusting hydraulic system connected with multiple high-sensitivity tension sensors, and a shock absorption system. [1] Fail-safes are incorporated into the device as well. When the LSO determines that a relatively quiet moment is approaching, he instructs the pilot ...
The cannon was designated BallonabwehrKanone, or BaK, and was the first practical anti-aircraft gun. Although armed aircraft were used as early as the Italo-Turkish and Balkan Wars , the designation BallonabwehrKanone remained in use until it was replaced by the more familiar FlugabwehrKanone or FlaK later in the First World War.