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Old February 21st 07, 08:55 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Dave Kearton
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Default Gordon's pics : What are these ?



The associated caption is wrong, possibly intentionally. Does
anybody have an idea as to what they're looking at ?



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Old February 21st 07, 09:01 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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Default Gordon's pics : What are these ?

Dave Kearton wrote:
The associated caption is wrong, possibly intentionally. Does
anybody have an idea as to what they're looking at ?




What kind of sad, no life ******* replies to his own posts .....



Apparently they're JATO units of the German persuasion.



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Old February 21st 07, 10:36 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
CWO4 Dave Mann
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Default Gordon's pics : What are these ?

Dave Kearton wrote:
Dave Kearton wrote:
The associated caption is wrong, possibly intentionally. Does
anybody have an idea as to what they're looking at ?




What kind of sad, no life ******* replies to his own posts .....



Apparently they're JATO units of the German persuasion.





Now Dave .. ******* perhaps but low-life never.

Anyway, I'll opine they are fuel containers for a rocket engine.

Cheers,

Dave #2
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Old February 21st 07, 11:15 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Lynn in StLou
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Default Gordon's pics : What are these ?

Dave Kearton wrote:
Dave Kearton wrote:
The associated caption is wrong, possibly intentionally. Does
anybody have an idea as to what they're looking at ?




What kind of sad, no life ******* replies to his own posts .....



Apparently they're JATO units of the German persuasion.




Correct

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Old February 21st 07, 11:56 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Waldo Pepper
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Default Gordon's pics : What are these ?

They look different from their more common appearance as the blunt end
"always" mount a parachute for recovery after a drop.

Waldo.

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:31:13 +1030, "Dave Kearton"
wrote:

Dave Kearton wrote:
The associated caption is wrong, possibly intentionally. Does
anybody have an idea as to what they're looking at ?




What kind of sad, no life ******* replies to his own posts .....



Apparently they're JATO units of the German persuasion.


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Old February 22nd 07, 12:40 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Blume, Alf
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"Waldo Pepper" skrev i en meddelelse
...

Apparently they're JATO units of the German persuasion.


But not for the Me-262 - more likely the Arado-234, Heinkel He-111Z, Me-323
ect . . .


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Old February 22nd 07, 07:45 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
John Szalay
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"Dave Kearton" wrote in news:Im2Dh.2211
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The associated caption is wrong, possibly intentionally. Does
anybody have an idea as to what they're looking at ?




Walter 109-500 RATO motors

http://orbat.com/site/andreas/Germany%202.htm

http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/r...6826&wwwflag=2
&imagepos=8


used on numerous german aircraft.

the smoke in second image is from one of those RATO units
on a Me-321

http://www.geocities.com/rcaf86/me321.html

also

www.waffenhq.de/flugzeuge/me321.html
 




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