Arresting Gear Completes Shore Testing for 'Props'
General Atomics is providing new launch and recovery systems for the U.S. Navy's next aircraft carriers.
An E-2D Advanced Hawkeye from VX-20 conducts a landing arrested by the General Atomics AAG system at the Navy's RALS test site at Lakehurst, New Jersey. (photo: U.S. Navy)
An E-2D Advanced Hawkeye from VX-20 conducts a landing arrested by the General Atomics AAG system at the Navy's RALS test site at Lakehurst, New Jersey. (photo: U.S. Navy)

Earlier this month General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that its Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) carrier recovery system had completed performance testing in late August with the Northrop Grumman C-2A Greyhound, E-2C+ Hawkeye, and E-2D Advanced Hawkeye. The tests were significant in not only clearing the AAG for further trials at sea with heavy, propeller-driven aircraft but also in allowing the establishment of an Aircraft Recovery Bulletin (ARB) that governs how the "props" are recovered to the carrier.


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