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Warrior forward Steve Gillis blasted in a score less than 90 seconds into the period. In the next 12 minutes Harvard ran up four penalties, giving State a near-permanent power play. Warrior center Kevin Jato scored on a drive with six minutes left to play, making...
...transports, stub-nosed B-26 light bombers, and prop-driven, single-engined T-28 trainers. Last month at Eglin, President Kennedy laughed aloud during a spectacular, jet-packed Air Force show when a venerable Air Commando C-47 shot sharply into the sky belching smoke from JATO rocket boosters. But the Air Commandos are no laughing matter: the 1st Air Commando Group is the Air Force's newest outfit, and one of the few that are actively engaged...
...their planes and get into the air in 7 min. 34 sec. After Kennedy sounded a Klaxon, five Voodoo crews were airborne in 2 min. 24 sec. The President saw F-104s hit target rockets with Sidewinder missiles, laughed as an ancient C-47, all souped up with JATO rockets, shot into the sky like a jet. He inspected a line of 33 different aircraft, from the X-15 to the B-52, ducked inside a security hangar for a look at supersecret weapons...
J.P.L.'s founders got a bigger boost in 1939. when the National Academy of Sciences came across with $10,000 to develop rockets for helping airplanes get off the ground. In 1941 the first airplane took off with a J.P.L.-developed JATO (Jet Assisted Take Off) rocket. During World War II, J.P.L. was reorganized as a laboratory run for the Army by Caltech...
...Aerojet chief consultant and chairman of NATO's aeronautical advisory council. Just before World War II, the Air Force asked him to work out a way to help overloaded bombers take off from short runways. Von Kàrmàn's solution was the famed JATO rocket-booster unit. The only trouble was that the company lacked the capital and the production know-how to follow through on its big military contracts. For those it turned to Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co., which poured $4,000,000 into the tiny, brainy company (in return...