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1jet-assisted takeoff — An auxiliary means of assisting heavily loaded aircraft and reducing takeoff distance. The JATO consists of small rockets attached to the lower portion of the rear of the aircraft. These rockets fire at an appropriate time on takeoff and provide… …
2rocket-assisted takeoff — A method of assisted takeoff for use with heavy loaded aircraft and/or taking off from a high altitude airfield. Auxiliary booster rockets, attached to the airframe, are ignited at the critical time during takeoff to provide the requisite… …
3assisted takeoff — An aerodyne takeoff assisted by additional acceleration provided by some external force such as a rocket, a self propelled trolley, or a catapult. Hence, the terms jet assisted or rocket assisted takeoff …
4Timeline of jet power — This article outlines some of the important developments in the early history of the development of the jet engine. Although the most common type, the gas turbine powered jet engine, was certainly a 20th century invention, many of the needed… …
5Airbreathing jet engine — An airbreathing jet engine (or ducted jet engine) is a jet engine propelled by a jet of hot exhaust gases formed from air that is drawn into the engine via an inlet duct. All practical airbreathing jet engines are internal combustion engines that …
6JATO — Jet Assisted Takeoff Contributor: CASI …
7Lockheed P-2 Neptune — P 2 (P2V) Neptune SP 2H of VP 7 over the Atlantic in the mid 1960s. Role Maritime Patrol and Anti Submarine Warfare …
8Kármán, Theodore von — born , May 11, 1881, Budapest died May 6, 1963, Aachen, W.Ger. Hungarian born U.S. engineer. After directing the Aeronautical Institute at Aachen, Germany (1912–30), he immigrated to the U.S., where he taught at the California Institute of… …
9aviation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Science of flight Nouns 1. (science of flight) aviation, flight, flying; navigation, aerial navigation; aeronautics, aerodynamics, aerodonetics, aerostatics, avionics, rocketry; aerial navigation,… …
10North American AJ Savage — AJ (A 2) Savage Role Bomber National origin United States Man …
