And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
B-47 rocket assist - I was told they were necessary on the first models as the early jet engines were not powerful enough for take off on shorter runways with a full load. The engines were improved in later models and the assist canisters were used less - or not at all.
It was called “JATO.” “JATO” and “RATO” were terms used interchangeably in the early days, and both referred to a (usually) small rocket engine that produced a jet of thrust to assist an airplane on takeoff. The official B-47 nomenclature was JATO.
Similarly the “jet” in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory refers to “a high-velocity fluid stream forced under pressure out of a small-diameter opening or nozzle” produced by a rocket, not a “jet” engine. JPL started in the 1930s as a lab at CalTech that experimented with rockets. The Army took over the lab during WWIi, and the lab was the first to demonstrate small bottle rockets attached to anairplane to help it take off. They called it “Jet Assisted Take Off.”
Why are there no scorch marks from the actual burning of the fuel around the outlet housings? Were they cleaned that well after each use or is this subject an exception rather than the rule?
JATO ???
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Early B-47 JATO. http://heroicrelics.org/info/b-47/b-47-jato.html
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ReplyDeleteRATO. Note the lack of air intakes.
ReplyDeleteB-47 rocket assist - I was told they were necessary on the first models as the early jet engines were not powerful enough for take off on shorter runways with a full load. The engines were improved in later models and the assist canisters were used less - or not at all.
ReplyDeleteIt's JATO, not the later RATO external system.
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ReplyDeleteText1649 has the correct answer.
ReplyDeleteIt was called “JATO.” “JATO” and “RATO” were terms used interchangeably in the early days, and both referred to a (usually) small rocket engine that produced a jet of thrust to assist an airplane on takeoff. The official B-47 nomenclature was JATO.
Similarly the “jet” in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory refers to “a high-velocity fluid stream forced under pressure out of a small-diameter opening or nozzle” produced by a rocket, not a “jet” engine. JPL started in the 1930s as a lab at CalTech that experimented with rockets. The Army took over the lab during WWIi, and the lab was the first to demonstrate small bottle rockets attached to anairplane to help it take off. They called it “Jet Assisted Take Off.”
Why are there no scorch marks from the actual burning of the fuel around the outlet housings? Were they cleaned that well after each use or is this subject an exception rather than the rule?
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