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Look at all the effort that goes into launching an airplane with a catapult on an aircraft carrier.

There are other issues - like you cannot abort a catapult in progress.




Being constrained to a ship makes things harder though. If it was simply very long (runway length), I reckon an abort would be fine. There are probably a lot of different ways to do it.

But yeah, much harder than a regular runway. Probably not economical.




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