First use of liquid JATO (Jet-assisted Takeoff) units in the United States., 1942 [photograph].

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First use of liquid JATO (Jet-assisted Takeoff) units in the United States., 1942 [photograph].

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Jet take-off. 2 Apr 1942 [Description from photo index.]. In April 1942 a Douglas A-20a bomber, with Major Paul Dane as pilot, took off from Muroc Army Air Force Base (now known as Edwards Air Force Base) using two liquid JATO units. They were designed by the Air Corps Jet Propulsion Research Project, JPL's predecessor, and built by the Aerojet Engineering Corporation, a local company started by several JPLers. The distance required for takeoff was shortened from 2,320 feet to 1,570 and the time of takeoff from 25.1 to 16.8 seconds.

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.). Photolab.

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One of the first people hired at GALCIT Project #1 in November 1941 was photographer George Emmerson (1913-1994), an emigrant from Newcastle, Great Britain. Audrey Voice and Mary J. Taylor as photographer's assistants joined Emmerson in 1943. Emmerson took almost all the early photos that became a part of this collection, a collection described in brief as the work product of the JPL Photolab. As JPL grew, so did the assignments to the Photolab to photograph all Laborato...

Dane, Paul.

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