[ExI] Trump on ​linear induction motors ​

[John Clark]

The US Navy decided to use electrical linear induction motors rather than
steam for its catapults to launch airplanes in its newest aircraft carriers
because it's lighter, more powerful, requires less maintenance and needs
fewer people to run. Electromagnetic catapults unlike steam can have
negative feed back and so provide smoother acceleration and thus are less
jerky and gentler with the aircraft and extending their lifetime. And they
can be used on both heavier and lighter aircraft than steam can. This is
what that great scientist and thinker Donald Trump thinks of
electromagnetic linear induction catapults:

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*You know the catapult is quite important. So I said what is this? Sir,
this is our digital catapult system. He said well, we’re going to this
because we wanted to keep up with modern [technology]. I said you don’t use
steam anymore for catapult? No sir. I said, "Ah, how is it working?" "Sir,
not good. Not good. Doesn’t have the power. You know the steam is just
brutal. You see that sucker going and steam’s going all over the place,
there’s planes thrown in the air.​ ​It sounded bad to me. Digital. They
have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be
Albert Einstein to figure it out.  I said what system are you going to
be–"Sir, we’re staying with digital." I said no you’re not. You going to
goddamned steam​!"​*

​John K Clark​
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