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From: mmm@cup.portal.com
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Subject: RATO and JATO
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Date: 14 Aug 89 07:33:59 GMT
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From: mmm@cup.portal.com
In AIR POWER: KEY TO SURVIVAL by Alexanader de Seversky, there's a picture
of a B-47 taking off with JATO boosters (small jets strapped to the plane
for extra power, which drop off after take-off, although these boosters
look more like RATO, which are rockets).

I'm wondering whether RATO or JATO was purely experimental, or whether it
was ever a deployed system?  Are any RATO or JATO system currently in use
or under experimentation?