The middle deck housed anchors and catapult mechanisms, aircraft fuel tanks, main and auxiliary engines, food storage and rudder control.
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The Vipers are launched from a long tube in one of a Battlestar's landing bays, assisted by a powered catapult mechanism.
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The original concept envisioned by Hewitt and Sperry was a catapult mechanism or from the water ( the N-9s were seaplanes, the Flying Bomb was not ).
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A pollen catapult mechanism is present in the genera " Molopanthera " and " Posoqueria " ( tribe Posoquerieae ) that projects a spherical pollen mass onto visiting sphingidae.