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)]])]]In naval aviation, a bolter is an aircraft that has missed the
arrestor cables on an aircraft carrier's flight deck, and is accelerating
to full throttle in order to go around and attempt the landing again.
Until the 1950s, when carrier flight decks ran the length of the ship, the
only way to prevent landing aircraft which had missed the arrestor cables
from colliding with aircraft about to launch was through the use of a crash
barrier or net rigged amidships.The development of jet aircraft for carrier
operations brought about several problems. The higher minimum airspeed of
jet aircraft meant that any aircraft landing on a centreline flight deck
would require most of the length of the deck to stop, even with arrestor
equipment. As aircraft could not be parked on deck or launched and
recovered simultaneously, there would have been a significant slowing of
carrier operations.
