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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 HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

God Bless America.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago

American problems (too short of a runway for your jumbo jet) require American solutions (rocket boosted Yeehaw 🤠)

[–] Fox@pawb.social 13 points 2 years ago

God that is so fucking glorious

[–] alnilam@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Those are booster jet engines?

[–] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 15 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.

[–] eyvind@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

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

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

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