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National Geographic : 1947 Oct
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JATO Bottles Boost a Plane into the Air from the Ice Strip at Little America JATO (jet-assisted take-off) bottles were essential to get the heavily loaded R4D planes airborne. These powerful rocket-propulsion containers areattached on either side of the fuselage, just aft of the wing, and fired by the pilot with a button control. Soon aftertake-off theempty bottles arediscarded.
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