Word: jato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Profits & JATO. Aerojet's high-thrust activity has turned it from a mere nickel salute 16 years ago into the General Motors of U.S. rocketry. On 1957 sales of $161.9 million, it netted $3,800,000. This year's projection: sales of $180 million, with...
Powered by military necessity, rocket engines have grown into a major industry with annual sales estimated at $450 million, a work force of 25,000-plus and a product line that ranges from small $50 JATO rockets to huge $250,000 missile engines producing the equivalent of 1,750,000 h.p. By the mid-1960s rocket engine spending will probably top $1 billion annually and go on climbing as the U.S. needs ever faster and higher flying weapons beyond the capabilities of conventional jet or ramjet engines, like those on Boeing's Bomarc missile (see below...
Then, with frostbite already showing on Dufek's nose, the party stomped back into the airplane, its engines still turning over. But when Pilot Conrad Shinn gunned his engines and fired four JATO (jet assist) bottles for takeoff, the R4D stuck fast, its skis frozen to the icy surface. Only by blasting off his eleven remaining JATO bottles did Shinn wrench the plane loose and stagger into the thin air at well below normal take-off speed. Back at McMurdo, Dufek ordered establishment of the Siple camp delayed for two weeks ("If it was too cold...