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Three years were spent on its design but the catapult did not work as intended and was never used to launch an airplane.
A World War II-era catapult designed to launch bomber planes using a shorter runway was excavated at the site of the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire in southeast England, afrom the Museum of London Archaeology said. The catapult was carefully dismantled after the excavation and has now become part of an archive.
During the excavation, the team found a 98-foot wide circular pit topped with a turntable. There were two concrete tracks found, each no longer than 269 feet – modern-day runways are 6,000 feet long. Under the turntable, 12 Rolls-Royce Kestrel aero engines were tasked with the job of compressing air to 2,000 psi and being pushed into the pneumatic arm, which would have pulled the airplane with it and then catapulted it into the air.did not fit on the catapult and its engines kept wearing out. The project was quickly abandoned and the entire structure was filled on after the mechanism was taken out.
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