Curious question to the group.

So.... I'm curious as to how the JATO rockets were developed and where
they were first used.

Looking at those famous pix of a HERC using them for takeoff assistance
made me kinda curious.

Now it is a bit of a trick question.... so have at it.

Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JATO

Boomerang wrote:

Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JATO

Well if your all going to do it the easy way lets add a few things.

In the big WWII who is credited ( I presume ) with inventing the
American version of JATO and name the ( interesting ) plane
that it was used on.

And no.... It was not the Ercoupe that Wikipedia mentions.

I know it was used on PBY's - not sure when the first one was used.

Jack G.

"shiver" wrote in message
...
So.... I'm curious as to how the JATO rockets were developed and where
they were first used.

Looking at those famous pix of a HERC using them for takeoff assistance
made me kinda curious.

Now it is a bit of a trick question.... so have at it.

Jack G wrote:

I know it was used on PBY's - not sure when the first one was used.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh...... One of the pieces of the puzzle rockets into place.

shiver said the following on 25/05/07 02:20:
So.... I'm curious as to how the JATO rockets were developed and where
they were first used.

Looking at those famous pix of a HERC using them for takeoff assistance
made me kinda curious.

Now it is a bit of a trick question.... so have at it.

I've seen pictures of a Seafire on a carrier with rockets on.


Richard.

--
"Initiative is punishable."
Russian business saying.

I found this: http://www.vernonstories.com/02jvb.htm that references
Reaction Motors successfully testing RATO on a Martin PBM in January 1944.

Jack G.


"shiver" wrote in message
...
So.... I'm curious as to how the JATO rockets were developed and where
they were first used.

Looking at those famous pix of a HERC using them for takeoff assistance
made me kinda curious.

Now it is a bit of a trick question.... so have at it.

You may find that it was the Germans who developed rocket assisted take off
especially when it meant getting a fully loaded Me 321s and 323s in the air.
The 6 Gnome-Rhone engines were barely capable of getting the Me 323 aloft.
The earlier glider version was given rocket assist to help the tow plane get
it into the air.
All of this was taking place about 1941 and onward during the war. It may be
assumed that this was another piece of German technology picked by US Army
in 1945.
Gene


"shiver" wrote in message
...
So.... I'm curious as to how the JATO rockets were developed and where
they were first used.

Looking at those famous pix of a HERC using them for takeoff assistance
made me kinda curious.

Now it is a bit of a trick question.... so have at it.

"Gene S. Park" wrote:

You may find that it was the Germans who developed rocket assisted take
off
especially when it meant getting a fully loaded Me 321s and 323s in the
air.
The 6 Gnome-Rhone engines were barely capable of getting the Me 323
aloft.
The earlier glider version was given rocket assist to help the tow plane
get
it into the air.
All of this was taking place about 1941 and onward during the war. It may
be
assumed that this was another piece of German technology picked by US Army
in 1945.

Probably, but I don't think we did anything more than experiment with it.

The Germans developed the first rocket-powered airplanes in 1929.
They were commercially-available gliders with black-powder rockets
for propulsion. See

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclo.../Opel-RAK.html

for details.

--Bill Thompson

On Fri, 25 May 2007 10:24:47 GMT, "William R Thompson"
wrote:

"Gene S. Park" wrote:

You may find that it was the Germans who developed rocket assisted take
off especially when it meant getting a fully loaded Me 321s and 323s in the
air.

The Germans developed the first rocket-powered airplanes in 1929.
They were commercially-available gliders with black-powder rockets
for propulsion. See

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclo.../Opel-RAK.html

for details.

--Bill Thompson

About the same time, there were also some German rocket powered boat
experiments.

But hundreds of years before, the Chinese built kite like birds
powered by rockets. One Lord, often named as Wan Hu is recorded as
trying to launch himself with rockets with fatal results.

Cheers, Bob