@dickdelfonzi: The wire across the flight deck is not simply a giant elastic band. When a carrier aircraft lands, its tailhook catches a cross-deck pendant. Purchase cables carry that motion below deck into the arresting engine, where a hydraulic system absorbs the aircraft’s energy during the controlled runout. Before this Reel, did you think the stopping happened in the deck wire itself? #NavalEngineering #AerospaceEngineering #HiddenEngineering #HowItWorks