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"because' we're going to have a jet-assisted launching, when the air blows.

This period also witnessed experimentation with jet-assisted piston engine aircraft.

The aircraft took off using jet-assisted takeoff rockets.

The former were more immediately successful, with the development of jet-assisted take-off; but the latter clearly offered greater longer-term promise.

He never had a chance, for Professor Hinckelberg made a jet-assisted take-off and was immediately in full flight.

Arnold encouraged research and development efforts, among his projects the B-17 and the concept of Jet-assisted takeoff.

The Navy beat the Army, and secured his services to build liquid-fueled rockets for jet-assisted take-off of aircraft.

The Wasps would be unable to boost back to orbit without the jet-assisted takeoff rockets that their ground crews would provide for them.

Various gliders are seen in the film, and the protagonist, Nausicaä, uses a jet-assisted one-person fixed-wing aircraft-shaped machine.

In collaboration with the Luftwaffe, the Peenemünde group developed liquid-fuel rocket engines for aircraft and jet-assisted takeoffs.

A prolonged explosion and ascend- ing streaks of orange fire to the south told Tavernor that two helicopters had made jet-assisted take-offs.

That year he went on active duty as a naval officer for the duration of World War II, becoming involved with jet-assisted takeoff boosters.

JATO or ""jet-assisted take-off" refers to the use of rockets to provide additional thrust for starting aircraft.

In a black-and-white, a Hereford bull, making what looks like a jet-assisted takeoff, hangs in the air straight-legged, likewise the man who aims to mount him.

Even a small jato for jet-assisted takeoff will weigh a hundred and forty pounds and deliver a thrust of a thousand pounds for so many seconds.

Rocket boosters used on aircraft are known as Jet-Assisted TakeOff (JATO) rockets.

During the latter part of the manufacturer's flight tests the Il-22 made the first ever Soviet jet-assisted takeoff on 7 February 1948 with a pair of SR-2 boosters.

The electrical currents have two purposes: one line is used to shock the bivalve into dormancy when the pilot of the ornithopier wishes to utilize fixed-wing flight (normally jet-assisted).

JATO stands for 'Jet-assisted take-off' (and the similar RATO for 'Rocket-assisted take-off').

Yakutat provided quarters and subsistence for the crews of the Mariners and furnished the planes with gasoline, lubricating oil, and jet-assisted take-off (JATO) units.

M When armed men in blue helmets rained from the sky A on jet-assisted parafoils, they had to hunt and thrash N through the jungle for a time before they found that T hidden opening.

Upgraded to the jet-assisted B-36D in 1950, then the B-36J-III Featherweight in 1954; Trained in heavy bombardment operations and participated in many SAC exercises and deployments.

Economic recovery can give a jet-assisted take-off to a politician; in only seven months, it has lifted Mr. Clinton from the worst approval rating for any President since World War II so early in his term.

After Operation Crossroads, Radford asked Hayward if the Navy had such an aircraft, and Hayward suggested modifying the Lockheed P2V Neptune for carrier operations using jet-assisted takeoff (JATO) rocket boosters.

The all-important fuel turbopumps, necessary to raise the chamber pressure and thrust while making the engine lighter, were built by Robert Goddard, who was under a contract with the U.S. Navy to provide jet-assisted takeoff (JATO) rockets.