Originally Posted by
washoutt
Janetflight, post 39, I seem to remember seeing a picture of an Ethipian Airlines Convair 340 (in that colourful paint scheme they had in those days) using Jato's for take of. I searched my little library for that picture, but could not find anything. Can anybody remember that, or am I just getting old?,
See my Post 10 on this Thread
There is a prettty colour picture of one , mentioning the JATO in John Taylor's 1964 " Aircraft Annual" but , like yourself , I have seen the action shot of one blasting off, and it's on my shelves......somewhere....