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An "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runway (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Those are booster jet engines?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Jet Assisted Takeoff - The gif is Fat Albert which is part of the Blue Angels. There was a plan to use jet-assisted landing and takeoff to rescue hostages in Iran but it wasn't used after a failed test of the landing jets.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Solid rocket boosters, but they’re called “jet assisted take-off” for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Yep, "Fat Albert" JATO (Jet Assisted Take-Off) C130.