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First JATO assisted Flight - GPN-2000-001538
Taken on 12 August 1941
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- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- http://dayton.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/LARGE/GPN-2000-001538.jpg on the Wayback Machine at the Wayback Machine http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001538.html on the Wayback Machine at the Wayback Machine
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Take-off of America's first "rocket-assisted" airplane, an Ercoupe fitted with a GALCIT developed solid propellent 28 pound thrust JATO (Jet Assisted Take-Off) booster. The Ercoupe took off from March Field, California and was piloted by Captain Homer A. Boushey Jr.
