Sea Venom on catapult

[Selwyn]

Guys and Gals,

Looking for some information on how a Sea Venom sat on the catapult before launch. I know where the strop pick up points are on the aircraft, but did the jet sit nose up?, was a hold back used or some other method? I asked earlier if anyone had a picture but that was inconclusive.

TIA

Selwyn

[bootneck]

Looking for some information on how a Sea Venom sat on the catapult before launch. I know where the strop pick up points are on the aircraft, but did the jet sit nose up?, was a hold back used or some other method?

Hi Selwyn,

The Sea Venom appears to sit in horizontal attitude at launch. It did use hold-backs and the deck had a trap/wheel chock method also.

Here are a couple of images to show what I mean

cheers

Mike

[venomvixen]

The aircraft sits in the same slightly nose up position as it does normally. The nose gear strut does not compress until the catapult pulls up and the engine power comes on.

My Dad used to do the ground runs on WZ-895 and WZ-937 at the RANFAA museum and he said the nose drops rather sharply when the throttle is pushed foward.

The holdback unit is located at the bottom of the tailpipe fairing just foward of the tail pipe drains.

Dannielle

[Selwyn]

The aircraft sits in the same slightly nose up position as it does normally. The nose gear strut does not compress until the catapult pulls up and the engine power comes on.

My Dad used to do the ground runs on WZ-895 and WZ-937 at the RANFAA museum and he said the nose drops rather sharply when the throttle is pushed foward.

The holdback unit is located at the bottom of the tailpipe fairing just foward of the tail pipe drains.

Dannielle

Many thanks to all Just what i was looking for!

selwyn