by me, Kerry Burgess, 08/14/2026 10:21 PM Friday
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/mark-kelly-aircraft-carrier-catapult-131140532.html
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The Hill
Mark Kelly on aircraft carrier catapult order: ‘Donald Trump knows nothing about this stuff’
Finya Swai
Fri, August 14, 2026 at 6:11 AM PDT 2 min read
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) blasted President Trump on Thursday for ordering the U.S. Navy to revert to older catapult systems on its aircraft carriers, arguing the change would be costly while questioning Trump's qualifications to make such a call.
"He's a marginally failed real estate developer with multiple bankruptcies," Kelly said in an interview with MS NOW. "He shouldn't be weighing in on systems, on aircraft carriers."
Trump earlier Thursday directed the Navy to return to steam-powered catapults and hydraulic systems on its Ford-class aircraft carriers, ditching the newer electromagnetic technology.
From 12/17/1990 ( ) To 8/13/2026 ( Thursday ) is 13023 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/29/2001 ( premiere USA film "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" ) is 13023 days
From 5/7/1992 ( first launch of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 and for me after 05/10/2006: includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall - Intelsat successful repair mission EVA ) To 8/13/2026 ( ) is 12516 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/8/2000 ( Bill Clinton, 42nd president of USA federal government 1993-2001: Executive Order 13145 - To Prohibit Discrimination in Federal Employment Based on Genetic Information ) is 12516 days
From 6/12/1981 ( premiere USA film "Raiders of the Lost Ark" ) To 8/13/2026 ( ) is 16498 days
16498 = 8249 + 8249
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/3/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), with my personal participation and commendation my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal 88Feb13 88Jun03, CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (operator and advanced technician, UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, Operation Earnest Will, Middle East Force, including Operation Praying Mantis ) is 8249 days
From 6/3/1988 ( see above ) To 8/13/2026 ( ) is 13950 days
13950 = 6975 + 6975
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/7/1984 ( premiere USA film "2010: The Year We Make Contact" ) is 6975 days
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/6029103-trump-orders-navy-catapult-reversal/
The Hill
Trump directs Navy to return to steam catapults on aircraft carriers
by Filip Timotija - 08/13/26 9:00 PM ET
President Trump ordered the U.S. Navy on Thursday
F-14 CREW EJECTS DURING CARRIER LAUNCH
DailyPress.com
Dec 18, 1990
The two-man crew of an F-14 Tomcat from a Oceana Naval Air Station squadron was forced to eject Monday night on takeoff from the Florida-based carrier USS Forrestal, Navy officials said.
The pilot and radar intercept officer, both assigned to Fighter Squadron 31 at Oceana, received minor injuries after parachuting down to the carrier, Navy officials said.
The men decided to eject when it looked like the jet was not going to be able to get up enough speed for takeoff and was headed instead over the side of the carrier, the Navy said.
The jet came to rest near the edge of the flight deck. Although the incident was under investigation, Navy officials said the jet apparently had become separated from the catapult during launch, the Navy said.
After ejecting, the pilot landed on the flight deck, suffering bruises and scrapes and possibly a sprained ankle, officials said.
The radar intercept officer was rescued from his parachute that snagged on the ship's superstructure, or island, above the flight deck. He received minor scrapes, Navy officials said.
Both men, whose names were not available late Tuesday, were treated by medical personnel aboard the carrier.
The Forrestal, based in Mayport, was conducting night training operations off the coast of Florida.
posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 12:04 AM Saturday, June 30, 2007
I just read this a few minutes ago after finding it on the internet and it sure sounds a lot like what I wrote
When I wrote about how the wheel of my truck popped off just before I crossed over a wooden bridge, I believe that bridge is symbolic of the forward edge of the flight deck. I don't know if this description below was me, as this type of accident may be relatively common, if you understand the nature of a catapult launch from an aircraft carrier. That text also reminds me very clearly of a time at night when Micheal was in a tree in the yard and I was trying to find him. It was kind of game of hide-and-seek using walkie-talkies. It took him a while to figure out that I was turning off my walkie-talkie as he would speak and then I would hear where his voice was coming from.
http://www.ejectionsite.com/estories.htm
Broken Launch Bar Linkage
The USS Forrestal (CV-59) was on its last operational cruise in the Med in 1990. We were conducting night flight ops off the coast of Turkey in support of Operation Provide Comfort. I had just shutdown my aircraft and was walking across the flight deck when the sound of snapping metal amidst a Tomcat launch off the port waist cat caught my attention. I turned to see the F-14 sliding sideways towards the edge of the flight deck. Apparently a component of the launch bar had snapped midway through the catapult stroke sequence, giving the Tomcat only a gentle push (approx. 20-30 knots) instead of the huge kick in the butt required to get the aircraft up to flying speed. The pilot had immediately realized something was wrong, and in a split second reacted to attempt to hit the brakes and stop prior to falling off the edge into the ocean 80 feet below. As they approached the edge, a tire blew sending the F-14 sliding sideways, and the pilot judged they wouldn't stop in time and initiated ejection. As the pilot and RIO rode the seat rails up into the night, one of the F-14s main landing gear jumped the deck edge rail but miraculously stuck just over the edge, and the aircraft remained perched precariously partially over the deck edge. The RIO was soon sighted landing further aft on the flight deck, and although he received some bumps, bruises and scrapes from his ejection and rough landing on the flight deck, he was was happy to walk away from it with a good story to tell that night over midrats. Meanwhile, a full scale search was underway for the pilot. The airborne SAR helicopter had witnessed the ejection and was on the scene so rapidly that the image of the RIO floating down in his parachute canopy nearly filled their windscreen as they whipped across the fantail. They quickly set up for an approach to the datum, and commenced a hover search. Flight operations were suspended and all airborne aircraft were given instructions to hold overhead (or expeditiously recovered if low on fuel). Fifteen minutes later there was still no sign of the pilot. As the search proceeded with additional helicopters and ships in the area, the flight deck began to quiet down. An alert deck hand thought he heard a faint cry for help, but didn't see anything over the deck edge. The sound of yelling for help persisted, and suddenly the deck hand looked up, and with the aid of his flashlight, was able to make out the shape of the pilot hanging from his parachute 100 feet above him in the radio antennaes and masts at the top of the carrier's superstructure. Although the recovery of the pilot took an additional half hour, he was recovered uninjured.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: Sunday, July 01, 2007
Ah.... a cookbook. If that was me that was stuck in the aircraft carrier's superstructure after ejecting from a failed launch of my F-14 Tomcat, I created an artificial and symbolic memory of me sitting underneath the ships radar while reading a book. I almost got cooked by that radar so I symbolized that with me sitting under it reading a book to create a reference to a cookbook. I have other vague memories, artificial or real, I'm not certain, that support this notion.
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
August 23, 2006
I've been thinking about that one scene from "Top Gun," which was released on 5/16/86. They could have thrown the audio in late in post-production because I don't think you could actually see the actor saying these words. It was that part where "Goose" died after ejecting from the F-14 and the rescue swimmer was telling him he had to let him go.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/6029103-trump-orders-navy-catapult-reversal/
The Hill
Trump directs Navy to return to steam catapults on aircraft carriers
by Filip Timotija - 08/13/26 9:00 PM ET
President Trump ordered the U.S. Navy on Thursday to remove the electromagnetic catapult system on aircraft carriers to launch fighter planes and revert back to using steam catapult systems, a move that officials and experts argue would raise costs in the process.
The president directed the service to equip Ford-class aircraft carriers, such as the USS Doris Miller currently being constructed, with steam-powered catapult and hydraulic systems instead of the newer Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and Advanced Weapons Elevators.
“The Department of War shall restore both capacity and competition to the maritime industrial base as it expands our naval force structure,” Trump said in the memo, using the administration’s preferred name for the Pentagon.
”It will use proven, reliable and affordable technologies and ship designs, as well as award contracts that enable purchases from foreign suppliers in the near term while simultaneously incentivizing investment in America’s shipbuilding industrial base, consistent with other major equipment purchases such as icebreakers,” the president said.
The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, currently uses EMALS, which Trump has criticized dating back to his first White House term as too complex and costly.
“Billions of dollars more they spent on electric catapults, and they’re not good,” the commander in chief said last month during a defense summit in Pennsylvania.
General Atomics, a California-based firm that secured a $1.2 billion contract to build the EMALS and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) for the USS Doris Miller, said the decision not to proceed with EMALS on the ship “warrants careful reconsideration.”
“With nearly 50 percent of production complete, changing course now would introduce significant cost, schedule and integration risks,” the company said in a statement Thursday.
“The decision will have broader implications for carrier readiness, national security and U.S. technological superiority, potentially creating opportunities for adversaries to close the capability gap,” the company stated. “It also comes at a time when strengthening the U.S. supplier industrial base is a national priority, making workforce stability, production capacity and the ability to sustain critical technologies more important than ever.”
Retired Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, called the decision to revert to steam catapults “illogical, inefficient and a waste of money,” and he said EMALS “reduce wear and tear on aircraft by providing smoother acceleration.”
“They weigh a lot less, they use significantly less energy and water — which are in short supply on ships — require significantly less maintenance, and manpower,” Montgomery, a former commander of Carrier Strike Group 5 aboard the USS George Washington in Japan, told The Hill on Thursday.
Bryan Clark, a senior fellow and director of the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at the Hudson Institute, said the memo is a “mixed bag,” noting that putting steam catapults and hydraulic arresting gear and elevators back onto carriers will make them “less capable and more expensive.”
“The Navy is saving about $100M a year on the Ford because it requires fewer people and less maintenance. Redesigning the carriers to replumb them for steam piping to the catapults will take multiple years and cost billions of dollars,” Clark, a sea warfare expert, said in an email to The Hill on Friday morning.
Steam catapults are no longer in production, and the Navy bought the last set 20 years ago, he said, adding that the service branch will need to “spend tens of millions and take years to stand up this production capacity again.”
The USS Gerald R. Ford, which cost more than $13 billion to build, experienced roadblocks during construction, including the elevators that bring up munitions to the flight deck and the arresting gear.
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is now in Hampton Roads, Va., for repairs following its 11-month deployment, which included the U.S. military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and participating in the war with Iran.
Earlier this year, the Navy highlighted the EMALS and AAG systems were designed to “deliver greater lethality and joint interoperability.”
“While the Navy is still analyzing the data, preliminary reports from the Sortie Generation Rate test program show that the flight deck design in conjunction with EMALS and AAG have contributed to an increased sortie generation rate compared to that of a Nimitz-class carrier,” the Navy said on Feb. 28.
The swap in fighter jet launch system was panned by some Senate Democrats, with one telling the president to “stick to what he knows best — ballrooms, bankruptcy and bulls‑‑‑.”
“I’ve launched off the front of aircraft carriers hundreds of times, have a Master’s degree in aeronautical engineering, and am a test pilot and even I wouldn’t suggest to the Navy how to engineer specific systems on its ships,” Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), a former Navy pilot who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Thursday on the social platform X.
Trump’s Thursday memo also directs Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to establish a new fifth naval shipyard to boost aircraft carrier and submarine repair capacity.
The U.S’s four other public shipyards, where the Navy typically overhauls nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines, are in Hawaii, Washington, Virginia and Maine.
Clark, of the Hudson Institute, praised the push to open a fifth Naval shipyard.
“Using private capital to do it is a better use of private money than creating more new autonomous system companies,” he said
The memo tells the Pentagon to pursue more direct investments into the U.S. shipbuilding industrial base, allowing foreign shipbuilders to build up to two ships in their parent shipyards while training the U.S. workforce for the roles.
The memo also ordered Hegseth to establish a “Component Repair Center,” which would be able to store, repair and refurbish submarine parts and undertake a full review and “reorganization” of the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), the largest of the U.S. Navy’s five system commands, to “address chronic challenges in American naval shipbuilding.”
Vice Adm. Jim Downey, commander of NAVSEA, retired last week, and now Rear Adm. Pete Small is serving on an interim basis.
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2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
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Victor Milson: This is a most... difficult announcement. As you know, things have not been going well back home. Well, it's gotten worse - a lot worse. Yesterday, a Soviet destroyer challenged the blockade. Several warning shots were fired across her bow; she did not respond. A second volley was fired, there still was no response - none. The nuclear destroyer USS Cunningham launched two of her Falcon missiles. Both struck the Soviet vessel amidship. She broke in two and sunk. Eight hundred of her crew were lost. This morning, an American surveillance satellite was struck by a Soviet laser fired from the Sergei Kirov space station. The American satellite was destroyed. The United States has broken off diplomatic relations with Russia. All ambassadors have been recalled. The Soviet ambassador has been expelled, along with the entire staff. All American air defense and satellite defense forces are on full alert. Premier Ulanova made a televised address and said that technically, a state of war exists between our two countries. All American personnel are ordered to leave Soviet territory immediately or they will be placed under arrest. All Russian personnel are similarly ordered to evacuate American territory. As a result, by direct Presidential order, the three of you must leave the Leonov. No Russian citizen is allowed to remain on or is allowed to enter the Discovery; this order is effective immediately. The launch window for re-entry is 28 days. The Discovery has enough fuel for a low-consumption trajectory. HAL appears to be reactivated and is functioning well enough to operate the onboard systems. The Leonov has enough fuel for a low-consumption trajectory that will arrive 12 months earlier. The launch windows are critical for both spacecraft. Only communications of an emergency distress nature are allowed between the Leonov and Discovery. I know you people are caught in the middle of this; in a sense, we all are. I wish there was something I could do.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 11:09 PM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 08/14/2026
