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Can someone point out a net based source for a design of any tailhook
for a carrier aircraft. If you can, can you e-mail it to me? I would
check for replis but with all this nonsense in the group, I am afraid
I won't see it.

Everything you need to know is in
MIL-A-18717 ARRESTING HOOK INSTALLATION, AIRCRAFT

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Harry Andreas
Engineering raconteur