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JATO: Jet Assisted Takeoff of Carrier Aircraft 1945 US Navy Training Film. Both the F6F Hellcat and F4U Corsair.

https://vimeo.com/501211533

More types here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0qcKTVPrXQ

I remember when Fat Albert used to do the JATO takeoffs, quite impressive to see a C-130 climb nearly vertical into the sky on a pillar of smoke.

One show at Selfridge ANGB MI, an entire side misfired and failed to go off, Albert immediately leveled off, looped around and landed, crew evacuated right on the runway and the aircraft was swarmed by emergency vehicles. They waited a full 45 minutes before towing it away, and that was the last time I saw a JATO takeoff.

And it was a lowly little Ercoupe that did it first.

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Matt, el linko no worko...

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Technically not "jet" engines but rockets, so not JATO but RATO.

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Welllll, technically Lon, they are both "jet" engines when you are describing the type of thrust
they emit. They both emit high pressure propulsive streams of gas. The names were later pigeonholed into different categories depending on the propulsion "engine" used....a chemical one or a mechanical one as technology evolved as I understand the subject.
When first developed at the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory California Institute of Technology(GALCINT), RATO was christened JATO. You did say technically...just sayin'....

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He bowls overhand...He is the most interesting man in the world.
"In Peace Japan Breeds War", Eckstein, Harper and Bros., 3rd ed. 1943(1927, 1928,1942)
"Leave it to ol' Slim. I got ideas...and they're all vile, baby." South Dakota Slim
"Ahh..."The Deuce", 28,000 pounds of motherly love." quote from some Mojave Grunt
DBF

fixed it

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Matt Gunsch, A&P, IA, Warbird maint and restorations
Jack, You have Debauched my sloth !!!!!!
We tried voting with the Ballot box, When do we start voting from the Ammo box, and am I allowed only one vote ?
Check out the Ercoupe Discussion Group on facebook

In the UK it was referred to as RATOG for rocket-assisted take-off gear.
All Seafires after trials in February 43, were capable of using it.

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