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Hi folks,
I’m working through ideas for my US-Nazi Germany Cold War story and I’ve come up to a brick wall on the plausibility of something I’ve been thinking about.
Is it possible to build a catapult assisted take-off/vertical landing aircraft? Are there inherent problems with such a design in terms of weight? Is it just more efficient to do full STOVL or CATOBAR?
My idea is to give somewhat of a compromise between the utility of a Harrier-type aircraft but also give navies using them the ability to get them into the air with a larger payload.