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	JATO Rocket Car - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The famous account of the JATO Rocket Car was one of the original Darwin Awards winners: a man who supposedly met his death in a spectacular manner after mounting a rocket engine on a common automobile.
		It may have been Paul Vixie who wrote the introduction to the JATO urban legend that first included the term "Darwin Award" (if the message header was not forged) who is most responsible for the spread of the term.
		In 1996 the legend was further embellished with references to the year of manufacture of the car and G-Forces and to the form which was widely circulated via email (55% of all postings on usenet which included "JATO Rocket Darwin Award impala" also included "g-forces").
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/JATO_Rocket_Car (1040 words)

	JATO - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Early experiments with using rockets to boost sailplanes into the air were conducted in Germany in the 1920s, but practical JATO systems were first introduced by the RAF early in World War II.
		The JATO Rocket Car is a famous urban legend that relates the story of a car equipped with JATO units for a lark, that is later found smashed into a mountainside.
		However, a nearly verbatim copy of the cDc version is detailed here, involving a car frame attached to an old mine railcar and a JATO rocket as described in the Cult of the Dead Cow version.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/JATO (711 words)

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		JATO units are solid fuel rockets used to give heavy military transport airplanes an extra push for take-off from short airfields.
		The sergeant took the JATO unit into the Arizona desert and found a long, straight stretch of road.
		He attached the JATO unit to his car, jumped in, accelerated to a high speed, and fired off the rocket.
	chnm.gmu.edu /7tah/workshops/ws1/rocketcar.html (372 words)

	1995 Darwin Award: Jet Assisted Take-Off
		Leaving that aside, as long as the car stays on the ground, the wheels would have sufficient friction to keep the motion straight, although they would probably lack the traction to maintain stability.
		Because the JATO of the 40's was first-generation, designed to lift a single-engine Navy bomber off the deck of an aircraft carrier.
		The JATO rocket of today has significantly more thrust, and is typically used to lift a large four-engine C-130 transport off a short, primitive runway.
	www.darwinawards.com /darwin/darwin1995-04.html (1071 words)

	Rocket Car (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		When the cars were nearly clear of the overhang, I went inside and used a five-pound pony-sledge to bash the connection on the last car until it came free.
		I imagine he wanted to set the Rocket Car on the tracks across from the police station in the dead of night, then blow the horn and scream until a dozen cops came running out of the station to see what the ruckus was.
		We drove back to the Rocket Car and found that Jimmy and Beck had already shoved one of my igniters into the JATO nozzle, attached the leads to the roll of field-phone cable with wirenuts, and were unrolling the cable away from the tracks.
	www.wagoneers.com /pages/RocketCar/rockit.html (22748 words)

	JATO Rocket Car - TheBestLinks.com - Darwin Awards, Meme, Paul Vixie, Rube Goldberg, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		JATO Rocket Car, Darwin Awards, Meme, Paul Vixie, Rube Goldberg, Urban legend...
		In 1996 (http://groups.google.com/groups?q=JATO+rocket+darwin+award+dog+fightingandhl=enandlr=andie=UTF-8andc2coff=1andsafe=offandscoring=dandas_drrb=bandas_mind=12andas_minm=5andas_miny=1981andas_maxd=31andas_maxm=7andas_maxy=1996andselm=Pine.SUN.3.91.960530142350.880A-100000%40bcstecandrnum=16) the legend was further embellished with references to the year of manufacture of the car and G-Forces and to the form which showed up in my mailbox 1-1/2 months later (55% of all postings on usenet which included "JATO Rocket Darwin Award impala" also included "g-forces").
		After a lengthy and well-written history of the car's planning, group dynamics, secrecy and construction, "CarInTheCliff" describes with an entertaining tone the car's only test in such a manner as to account for all the elements of the circulating legend plus the elements he has added while discouraging repeats by example.
	www.thebestlinks.com /JATO_Rocket_Car.html (1026 words)

	The Rocket Car Legend
		Unfortunately, the rocket (which was either a JATO bottle, a surplus ICBM engine, or an experimental Shuttle booster) proved to be far more powerful than the maniac anticipated.
		The car reached an incredible speed in a matter of seconds (somewhere between 150 miles per hour and Warp 9) at which point the car's brakes and steering became...
		And if the JATO was still blazing away, the car would drill itself into the ground like a tent-spike before it got fifty feet from the cliff.
	www.rocketcarstory.com (2701 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Automobiles (Carmageddon)
		It seems that a guy had somehow got hold of a JATO unit, (Jet Assisted Take Off, actually a solid-fuel rocket) that is used to give heavy military transport planes an extra `push' for taking off from short airfields.
		First, anybody who understood the extreme forces involved well enough to attach a JATO unit to a car so that it would keep the car going in a straight line (rather than immediately spinning around) would not do it in the first place.
		Though the legend of the smoldering Chevy smashed into a cliff face is pure fabrication, JATO engines have been mounted on cars on a couple of occasions.
	www.snopes.com /autos/dream/jato.asp (1195 words)

	JATO
		The system was first introduced by the RAF who used fairly large solid fuel rockets to shoot planes (typically the Hawker Hurricane) off a small ramp.
		The Luftwaffe also used the technique in order to help their small bombers into the air with loads that would have made the takeoff run too long otherwise.
		Their system typically used HWK ("Walter") rocket engines burning hydrogen peroxide.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/j/ja/jato.html (392 words)

	Wired 8.08: Heard the One About the Rocket Car?
		The maniac then sped down a deserted stretch of highway, and when he reached an appropriate spot, lit the rocket (which was either a JATO bottle, a surplus ICBM engine, or an experimental shuttle booster).
		The car reached an incredible speed in a matter of seconds (somewhere between 150 miles per hour and warp 9) at which point the brakes and steering became...
		When the car hit the curve, pilot and car flew like an arrow (for a distance limited only by the imagination of the person telling the story), before crashing into an inconveniently placed mountainside.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/8.08/rocketcar.html (1036 words)

	Arizona DPS - News Release - Rocket Man
		"JATO units are basically huge containers of solid rocket fuel used to achieve jet assisted takeoff, typically lifting gig transports into the air from rough ground and short runways, or shooting overloaded planes from the decks of short aircraft carriers.
		The best modern forensic science could do was identify the car's make, model and year.
		As for Zip only trace evidence was found of bone, teeth and hair embedded in the back of the crater, also splinters of fingernails embedded in what is believed to be a piece of the steering wheel".
	www.dps.state.az.us /news/nr96006.htm (635 words)

	Rocket Car (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Granted, a car body wouldn't do us much good if we hit something (like a canyon wall) at jet-fighter speed, but it was better than wiping out in a director's chair at 300 miles per hour.
		If the car were traveling as fast as we expected it to, rubber-coated planks pressing against metal rails would probably get hotter than hell.
		But the Rocket Car was still exactly the same as it was when we left, ass end hanging out of a pile of rubble with a rocket sticking out of it.
	www.ddave.com /rocketcar/rockit.html (22393 words)

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		And this year's nominee is: The Arizona Highway Patrol came upon a pile of smoldering metal embedded into the side of a cliff rising above the road at the apex of a curve.
		It seems that a guy had somehow gotten hold of a JATO unit(Jet Assisted Take Off - actually a solid fuel rocket) that is used to give heavy military transport planes an extra "push" for taking off from short airfields.
		The JATO, if operating properly, would have reached maximum thrust within 5 seconds, causing the Chevy to reach speeds well in excess of 350 mph and continuing at full pwer for an additional 20-25 seconds.
	linuxmafia.com /pub/humour/jato-story (392 words)

	The world's top jato rocket car websites
		The famous JATO Rocket Car story was one of the original Darwin Awards but has now been debunked as an urban legend.
		In 1996 the legend was further embellished with references to the year of manufacture of the car and G-Forces and to the form which showed up in mailbox 1-1/2 months later (55% of all postings on usenet which included "JATO Rocket Darwin Award impala" also included "g-forces").
		Though this urban legend had apparently been around long before 1990, it appears to have been the addition of the Vixie Darwin Award introduction and the subsequent two edits to integrate that introduction and then posting on rec.humor that may have boosted its meme status and the 1996 embelisments increased its popularity up to twofold.
	dirs.org /wiki-article-tab.cfm/jato_rocket_car (868 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/JATO Rocket Car
		The famous JATO Rocket Car story was one of the original Darwin Awards winners but has now been debunked as an urban legend, though the staff of the Darwin Awards decided it was such a funny story to "grandfather" it in and let it keep its award.
		This legend was again convincingly debunked in 2003 on the Discovery Channel show MythBusters.
		Most of the driver's remains were not recoverable; however, small fragments of bone, teeth and hair were extracted from the crater, and fingernail and bone shards were removed from a piece of debris believed to be a portion of the steering wheel.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/JATO_Rocket_Car (956 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - JATO Rocket Car
		There are three basic types of rocket propulsion: chemical, nuclear, and electrical.
		Chemical rockets use chemicals, in solid or liquid form, for...
		These vehicles must be far more powerful than other types of rockets, because they...
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=JATO+Rocket+Car (132 words)

	Infoplease Search: jato rocket car
		(Encyclopedia) Rocket Propulsion The force acting on a rocket, called its thrust, is equal to the mass ejected per...
		(Encyclopedia) Rocket Design The key elements in designing a rocket are the propulsion system, which includes the...
		(Encyclopedia) Development of Rockets The invention of the rocket is generally ascribed to the Chinese, who as...
	www.infoplease.com /search?fr=iptn&query=JATO+Rocket+Car&in=all (207 words)

	SportbikeS.com: Rocket Car Powered by JATO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This guy claims to be the one that started the whole rocket car legend, I don't really know if it's true, but it is a very entertaining story.
		Its the actually story of the rocket car, not the one everyone hears or the one on the Darwin Awards.
		The vehicle quickly reached a speed of between 250 and 300 mph and continued at that speed, under full power, for an additional 20-25 seconds.
	sportbikes.com /wwwthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/226880/Main/224789 (472 words)

	JATO Rocket Car Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ LaunchBase.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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