B-47 JATO takeoff

A Boeing B-47 "Stratojet" "deploys smokescreen" with a water-injection and 33 JATO rockets. Later, the JATO rack is jettisoned and the crew demonstrates the aircraft's high speed, low altitude performance.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Boeing
• B-47
• Stratojet
• JATO
• Takeoff
• USAF
• Bomber
• Aviation

[MsFarQ2]

Shouldn't the title of this vid be 'B-47 JATO' only?? You're basically saying, in the title, 'B-47 Jet-fuel Assisted Take-Off takeoff'! Know what I mean? Kinda like saying 'ATM machine', what your really saying is 'Automatic Teller Machine machine'! :-)

[TsurugiJiri]

"Oh noes, it da internets gramma' po-lease! Runs away, runs away!" (Moreover, one could have a video featuring the B-47's JATO units (fitting, ground tests, overview, detail, etc.) without featuring an actual takeoff, so I would maintain that this does indeed have a grammatically valid title. By the by, as we're on the subject, the contraction of "you are" isn't "your". Double and questionable punctuation and the use of emoticons also earn you grammar demerits. So there, ;p )

[TheCannonofMohammed]

The United States crows about being green (Al Gore) but then spews pollution when taking off to bomb Islam. Hypocrites.

[TsurugiJiri]

Yep. Our mighty fleet of Strategic Air Command B-47s are on their way to bomb Mecca and Medina right now. And Gore's putting you on his target list for your imprecations, too, because he invented the Internet, you know. He's going to make all the compact fluorescent lights in your vicinity explode. You and all of your nine-year old wives will die tragically from mercury poisoning. Such a pity.

[Acornoa]

jato arnt they more rato than jato?

[TsurugiJiri]

See earlier discussion...

[Closeoutracer]

You're complaining about the polution of a plane that was designed over 60 years ago.

The Boeing B-47 was built between

1947 and 1956.. and was mothballed

in the 1960's before the idea of

being "Green" had ever been thought of. I heard most Islamist still wiped their

ass with their left hand instead of using

toilet paper... I guess your fingers must

stink when you're praying... kind of hypocritical to pretend like you're reverant when you're sniffing your own shit.

[DevilMaster]

A camera should've been mounted on the plane to show the JATO units in greater detail.

[myvwsRrusty]

@Closeoutracer I kind of like, no, strike that I DID like those remarks!! Excellent!!

[tomperanteau]

@TheCannonofMohammed <--- Look. Third-world Muslim trash. Muslims suck.

[chokedad]

very messy

[kolbpilot]

I'll bet B-47 pilots enjoyed those kind of takeoffs.

[AgentJayZ]

@BIGBalls136 Hmmm, RR Trents are trying to repair their reputation for safety right now...We work on the older stuff from both GE and RR in our shop. Right now I'm working on a pair of J47s, one of which was for a B47-B.

[poldago]

While in UK from 1957-1958, the B47 was on alert for the cold war. The British V-series aircraft were being test flighted at the time. With heavy loads on takeoff, water injection would produce lotsa black stuff, but it got the job done.

I did manage to watch many a take-off, all in the name of PEACE and it musta worked..

[BIGBalls136]

Yuck all i know is that American engines have always been produced more carbon and therfore suck compared to you geussed it RR engines... always will be the case.

[asshatnowhere159]

damn did that plane run on deisel!??

[Snigglesnock]

looks like its crashing lol