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From: rbeville@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Bob Beville)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: RATO and JATO
Summary: my photos show...
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Date: 16 Aug 89 06:16:18 GMT
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From: rbeville@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Bob Beville)


	 My high school gung-ho collection of airplane photos shows
	 B-47 takeoffs with JATO from what is clearly installations
	 in the fuselage... not ejectable bottles. (tail no. 91909)
	 looks to be about 9 ports of them (tail no  6065)
	 Another takeoff view ( negative #  654-619 Aerojet-General
	 Corp. photo ) shows the JATO blast coming from behind a
	 hinged door that appears to be able to close flush with
	 the curvature of the fuselage...

	 Another photo ( negatiuve  252-995 Aerojet General Corp. photo)
	 (tail no. 33NB) shows a twin prop Navy plane with 4 external
	 JATO bottles per side.

	 Aerojet-General neg no. 5269 shows a Navy CONSTITUTION with
	 JATO takeoff, not discernible about ejectable or permanent
	 installation in plane.  Wing obscures the sources but cloud
	 streams are trailing off above the wing near the fuselage....

	 What a lot of no-help I've been, huh?

	that's -OWARI- from GLOWWORM-7-9-4
	best regards, rbeville@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM
	Bob Beville, Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR 97077