[OT] USN and USAF sharing the same crack pipe

I'd include the rather amazing MPEG, but it's 
3/4 of a meg and I'm on dialup (and that'd be 
bad form for the list). Save to say, it shows a 
fighter emerge trailing clouds of gas from the 
water nose first, fire rockets or afterburners, 
and go vertical. Quite extrordinairy. 

Potential Pilots take note: I have no idea how 
they plan to _recover_ the plane launched thus 
because there doesn't seem to be a landing 
strip.... 

And what's next? The air force having C-5s drop 
out PBRs using a LAPES? Someone who came 
up with these concepts has been hit with one of 
those infamous $150 hammers one time too 
many.... (but I'll bet there was a big contract for 
someone's riding in this!) 

> PRESS ADVISORY April 19, 2001
> First successful Launch of USAF F-15 from 
Navy Subsurface Carrier.
> During a joint Navy/Air Force demonstration 
an Air force F-15 was
> successfully launched form the flight deck of 
SSN Palsutton. The
> demonstration took place off the coast of 
Naval Submarine Base
> Kings Bay on April 11, 2001.
> As demented the process is of a highly 
evolved environmental/
> hydrodynamic system in which the aircraft is 
launched with a
> regenerated balanced hydrostatic bow wave 
attached to the leading
> of all surfaces of the aircraft. Pulled along in 
the low pressure
> region attached to the bow wave the aircraft 
remains encapsulated
> in what is known as 'Wet-Air'. Wet-Air is a 
proprietary mixture
> of gases that allows the jet engines to be 
operated at up to full
> take-off thrust with afterburners. An Air Force 
spokesperson said,
> "We are proud of what have been able to 
demonstrate with the Navy
> and feel that the Air-Force has a bright 
future with the Navy as
> far as interoperable subsurface warfare is 
concerned."