This high quality slow motion video made especially to check the work of the new strop catcher fitted at the end of newly repaired HMAS Melbourne bow back in late 1969 shows the gubbins at work. The aircraft handlers are racing to retrieve each strop before the next launch. Before the strop catcher the strops/bridles went into the drink. The lift walls were covered with ready to use strops in the Sea Venom/Gannet era of MELBOURNE. A4G 889 is the one lost from a cold catapult - I guess the strop was saved.
Side View of the ex-Foch NAe São Paulo Strop Catcher at woik:
http://www.naval.com.br/blog/wp-cont...9/04/af-11.jpg
Bridle Capture Explaino:
User:Ralph Lewis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Phinal UK Fantom Catapult Mit Strop Catching:
PHROM:
http://www.axfordsabode.org.uk/pdf-docs/arkroy27.pdf (1.5Mb)
SLOW MOTION Catapults A4Gs 886 & 889