MIL-HDBK-2066 Base Document:1999

1 SCOPE
  1.1 General
2 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS
  2.1 Issues of documents
  2.2 Other publications
3 DEFINITIONS
4 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
  4.1 Description of forcing functions
  4.2 Tolerance limits of forcing functions
  4.3 Nondimensional load-stroke diagrams - derivation of
  4.4 Area under the nondimensional load-stroke diagrams
5 DETAIL REQUIREMENTS
  5.1 Launching gear (catapult loads)
      5.1.1 Types of catapults
      5.1.2 Catapult tow force load-stroke tables
            5.1.2.1 Shipboard load-stroke tables
            5.1.2.2 Shorebased load-stroke tables
      5.1.3 Catapult stroke
            5.1.3.1 Shipboard catapult total stroke values
            5.1.3.2 Shorebased catapult total stroke values
      5.1.4 Catapult energy level
      5.1.5 Shorebased catapult end speed
      5.1.6 Peak catapult force
      5.1.7 Catapult primary loading rate
      5.1.8 Sample of calculations
            5.1.8.1 Sample of calculations for shipboard catapults
            5.1.8.2 Sample of calculations for shorebased catapults
  5.2 Recovery gear (arresting loads)
      5.2.1 Arresting gears
      5.2.2 Nondimensional load-stroke diagrams
      5.2.3 Oscillatory nondimensional load-stroke curves
      5.2.4 Runout
            5.2.4.1 Runout for shipboard arrestments
            5.2.4.2 Runout for shorebased arrestments
      5.2.5 Engaging speeds
            5.2.5.1 Engaging speeds for normal arrestments
            5.2.5.2 Engaging speeds for emergency arrestments
      5.2.6 Corrections to the nondimensional diagrams
            5.2.6.1 Corrections for routine arrestments
                    5.2.6.1.1 Corrections for thrust and engaging
                              speed
                    5.2.6.1.2 Correction for wet tape
            5.2.6.2 Correction for emergency engagements
      5.2.7 Diagram dimensional load scale
      5.2.8 Peak arresting force
      5.2.9 Sample of calculations
            5.2.9.1 Sample of calculations for normal arrestments
            5.2.9.2 Sample of calculations for emergency arrestments

Gives information about loading characteristics, associated parameters, and methods to be used in calculating the catapulting and arresting loads of MIL-A-8863 and MIL-A-8866 for the design of U.S. Navy airplanes operating from shipboard and shorebased launching and recovery gears. A listing of such gears for which data is contained herein is given in Table 1.