JATO Takeoff compilation | Jet Assisted Take Off compilation | Take offs compilation | RATO takeoff

JATO (acronym for jet-assisted take-off), is a type of assisted take-off for helping overloaded aircraft into the air by providing additional thrust in the form of small rockets. The term JATO is used interchangeably with the (more specific) term RATO, for rocket-assisted take-off (or, in RAF parlance, RATOG, for rocket-assisted take-off gear).

After World War II JATO was often used to overcome the poor thrust of early jet engines at low speeds or for assisting heavily loaded aircraft to take off. For example, the propeller engined Avro Shackleton, when heavily laden with fuel for long maritime surveillance flights, relied on Armstrong Siddeley Viper turbojets for takeoff.

In late 1980 the United States military operation plan Operation Credible Sport was intended to rescue hostages held by Iran using C-130 cargo planes modified with rocket engines to enable a very short take off and landing. The plan was canceled after an accident occurred during a test landing when the forward-facing JATO units designed to slow the aircraft fired before the downward-facing units (designed to cushion the landing) did, causing the aircraft to crash-land.

JATO became largely unnecessary as the take-off thrust of jet engines improved and is now rarely used even when operating heavily laden from short runways or in "Hot and high" conditions. It is occasionally used in exceptional circumstances, on specially equipped, mostly military, aircraft.

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C 130
B 47 Stratojet
Mirage IV
Douglas R4D
Victor V Bomber

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[bobsinclar]

2’30" that’s my own JATO take-off from Cazaux Air Force Base some 25 years ago, when I was a MirageIV pilot… some 15 seconds of 5 tons extra-thrust gave me a 65 degrees pitch with constant speed. Thanks Mr Dassault for making suce beautiful planes.

[lindaw]

That first LC-130 was one of our planes from the 109th Air lift wing in Scotia, NY!

[trashhauller]

To be precise, the C-130 employed RATOG (Rocket Assisted Take Off Gear) The canisters were a solid fuel propellant, therefore a ROCKET. The venerable Neptune P2V5, for example, employed Jet Engine (JATO) Jet Assisted Take Off. Your'e welcome.

[spitfire]

Brilliant vid... Great to see the Victor with the system on. The Vulcan was supposed to have had it fitted

[therealrat]

It's crazy I've been on those c130s that go to the arctic they're really cool. They have huge sleds that slide over the wheels and of course the jato rockets

[IvanGoldBit]

2:02 its like a superhero flying then 2:08 realizes he late to the fight 🤣

[unconfusedconfusion]

America be like:”Hey frank what if we put rockets on a big plane to help it take off from 10 metre runways?”
Frank: “OH MY GOD DOUGLAS THATS A BRILLIANT IDEA JESUS CHRIST YOUR BLESSED DOUGLAS. IM TELLIN YA. YOUR FUCKIN BLESSED.”
Bill:”I WISH I COULD KISS YA RIGHT NOW DOUGLAS WHAT A GREAT IDEA”

[tlee]

We wouldn’t have searched this if we didn’t know what jato meant

[jkthomas]

Thing about JATO is, once you light 'em off, you can't turn 'em off. You have to let 'em finish the burn.

[cubdukat]

Now that is a seriously healthy boost.

[heavystarch]

Airforce One is rumored to have JATO tech in case of emergency.

[engchoontan]

What if the APU of structurally-stronger b737-200 is mod-hacked to jato-effects.?

[jamesmowl]

I just another day for VXE-6! 44 year of navy service to Antarctica and then we passed it on to the USAF. Good times

[KaidudeHasanSarfaraz]

Who else is here to see if they should put this on their bombushka

[raheelhammad]

Can they add Jet assists in commercial planes ??, for example in the hudson river crash if jet assists were installed the plane could have landed at the airport...

[jnorth]

Awesome! Thank you for this video.
Does anyone remember this story about an AF guy who installed one of those booster rockets onto his car? Sad story. Quite sad.

[homechefluisr.villanueva]

Just find out about this.... Nice 2022 march madness 😂

[Hoshimaru]

This doesn’t adequately show how loud those things are. I saw Fat Albert do it a few times. It sounds like the entire Blue Angels team taking off at the same time.

[wilson]

I watched a YT video of when they tried JATO's/RATO's on Hercules' during the Vietnam war. The idea was abandoned after two Herc's blew up, killing the crew & destroying two aircraft.

[KammtailCobra]

Some engineer has been playing a bit too much Just Cause 4