See http://www.snopes.com/autos/dream/jato.asp for the FALSE call. Interesting, long repeated story, but apparently not true.
From: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 6:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] Road Rage in Brazil Back when I was in the Air Force I learned a story about this dude who bolted two JATO rockets in the trunk of his car. He chose a long, straight stretch of road and ignited the rockets. Long story short: the rockets lasted longer than he expected and the speed attained was greater than he expected. he ran out of brakes ;he ran out of tire; at some point the car became airborne because of the incredible speed and still kept going until the side of that once "distant" mountain stopped the car in an instant. What they were able to reason of the remains pulled from the mountainside is that they had some of the steering wheel with some of his teeth in it. I have seen JATO (incidentally that stands for jet assisted takeoff) rockets in action on C-130s with a heavy load to be air - dropped at destination (usually battle front) before landing somewhere close by. C-130s aren't made to land with such a load,but they can take off, with and probably only with the assist. Why am I mentioning this? 'CUse Kurt mentioned the rocket launchers which reminded me of JATO takeoffs in 'Nam, and the fool who launched his car, not thinking how much weight those little rockets lift off the ground attached to the side of a C- 130 that couldn't take off without them, and would have to jettison the load regardless, if they want to make a safe landing. Each of the four turboprop engines,btw, put out 1,500HP. So 3,000HP isn't enough to get it off the ground... I wouldn't like to see one break loose,much less be hit by one... But if you think about it, you'd be dead before you knew it. No pain. Better'n falling on a grenade. Sent via DroidX2 on Verizon Wireless™ -----Original message----- From: paul annen <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, Mar 28, 2012 17:36:31 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] Road Rage in Brazil i still think the best thing to carry would be a morning star... but i also make chainmaile... if this happened to me i would have to be pulled off the guy in the car by the cops... On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Kurt Nolte <[email protected]> wrote: "but ultimately a bike just isn't the vehicle for revenge." It is... once you've installed the rocket launchers and flamethrower!!! My kit arrives next week. So excited. #MadMax #RoadWarrior Kurt Who needs to tweet less. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en.
