Rocket Plane

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I saw a documentary on this. They had to install a bunch of rockets to get it in the air.

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Posted by atman84 on 12/02/11 at 05:15 PM

Technically this is an example of RATO (Rocket Assisted Take Off) which is similar to JATO.

I'm not sure of the evolution between RATO & JATO.

The Blue Angels support team uses a C-130 called Fat Albert that is part of the flight demonstration. One of the things that is done is show the short runway RATO capabilities of the C-130 (runway surface permitting).

Posted by Leyte23 on 02/12/11 at 04:43 PM

very cool. Rockets are called JATO (jet assisted take off) very nice. Ya I expect to see Jimmy Stewart in Strategic Air Command

LOL

Posted by skysniper on 10/05/10 at 05:32 PM

@ scotman, they still arent as big as a concern as the majority of people claim things to be.

Posted by lolokop on 10/02/10 at 08:14 PM

SMOKE ON!!!!!!!
+FD

Posted by Scotman on 09/24/10 at 11:13 AM

This was, of course, before enviromental issues were a concern. Having said that, most goverments to this day couldn't give a f**k about the enviroment.

Posted by damessican on 09/23/10 at 05:34 PM

Yhis is a nice one + 1

I wonder if it has emissions control's

Think not They are exempt from the federal law

Posted by Hambone763 on 07/11/10 at 03:11 PM

B-47 with JATO...Great find!!! Most pictures are in B/W.

Posted by Bosun230 on 05/31/10 at 07:07 PM

as i recall this called JATO jet assist take off, had to do with length of runway avail and length of runway needed, when bomber was fully loaded vs empty these jet bomber needed a little more concrete than the prop jobs