Aerial Faith Plate

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This next test involves the Aperture Science Aerial Faith Plate. It was part of an initiative to investigate how well test subjects could solve problems when they were catapulted into space. Results were highly informative: They could not. Good luck!
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The Aperture Science Aerial Faith Plate is a mechanism introduced in Portal 2. This device launches players at a set velocity and height, usually to a pre-determined and specific destination within a test chamber, or over a gap. It can be used in junction with portals, and the Plate's ability to preserve the velocity of the user makes it an effective means of reaching places further away, or that would otherwise be inaccessible.

An Aerial Faith Plate in Portal 2.

Aerial Faith Plates can also launch any object that is placed on them, and the objects will travel the same distance and at the same velocity as the player, regards of their size or weight. Their mechanism is designed so that the player is launched either directly upwards, forwards or backwards in motion. There is only one occasion in which an Aerial Faith Plate launches you sideways, which is during the final chapters of the game when Wheatley plans to kill you.

Demonstrations

Related Achievements

Portal 2

Pturretdactyl
Use an Aerial Faith Plate to launch a turret