Friday, August 31, 2012

Jet Assisted Take-Off


With the help of 8 externally mounted solid fuel rockets, a Lockheed KC-130 could operate from very short runways.  The Marine KC-130T, named Fat Albert, the support aircraft for the Navy's Blue Angels aerial demonstration team, used to perform Jet Assisted Take-Offs as part of its popular air show routine.  (Commissioned of R.G. Smith in 1985 by McDonnell Douglas and gifted to the Smithsonian Museum)

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