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From: Paul Tomblin <tomblin@ekfido.Kodak.COM>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 10:11:13 -0400
Subject: (fwd) Re: Info on JATO units wanted
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>From: Bill Gawne <gawne@rosserv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
>Subject: Re: Info on JATO units wanted
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>From Bill Gawne <gawne@rosserv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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>jrc@pcnet.com (Joe Claffey Jr.) wrote:
>> Seeing as the JATO-hooked-to-a-car story is making the rounds again,
>>I'm volunteering to do the math and see just how fast a car would go if a
>>(NATO standard, I assume) JATO pod was used to accelerate it.
>
>For a published source of the JATO-in-a-car story, see Andy Granatelli's
>book _They Call Me Mister 500_. He claims that he and his brothers rigged
>a 40's vintage Indy car with eight (8) WWII surplus JATO mounts which they
>would fire *individually* at various county fairs. He includes an interesting
>and entertaining story of an experiment they did on US 10 when they fired
>all eight of the rockets at once.
>
>--
>-Bill Gawne, MSgt USMCR(Ret)
>The nation continues to invest in a Marine Corps based in large part on
>its confidence that Marine forces will prevail, even under the most
>demanding circumstances. - Introduction to FMFM 1-2

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