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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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God Bless America.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Fox@pawb.social 14 points 1 year ago

God that is so fucking glorious

[–] alnilam@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Those are booster jet engines?

[–] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year 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 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

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