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tom d. friedman
 Post subject: jato powered corsairs??
PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:42 pm 
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watching a documentary on the history channel... up comes a clip of a jato launched corsair from a carrier. was this an experiment, or used operationally?? note..... the jato bottle / bottles looked to be forward of the tail wheel, & it had star & bar markings minus the red stripe, so must be before 1947. what's the scoop here??

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Experiments were performed in 1944 with an old F4U-1 with "jet assisted take-off (JATO)" gear, featuring a small solid-fuel rocket attached on the fuselage just behind each wingroot, to allow the Corsair to get off the ground more easily with heavy loads, but it appears that JATO was rarely, if ever, used in service with the Corsair.

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