jato
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of jato
1940–45; Amer.; j(et) a(ssisted) t(ake)o(ff)
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But the U.S.'s Alexander Calder's finely drawn glass wire twisted into a bird form intriguingly suggested a pigeon in a jato takeoff.
From Time Magazine Archive
They'd fired jato rockets, all at once, and so pushed its speed up to the preposterous.
From Space Tug by Leinster, Murray
Every jato in every pushpot about every launching cage fired at once.
From Space Tug by Leinster, Murray
And a monstrous jato rocket, built into each and every one of the pushpots outside, flared chemical fumes in a simultaneous, gigantic thrust.
From Space Tug by Leinster, Murray
A small wire-wound jato for jet-assisted-take-off will weigh a hundred and forty pounds and deliver a thousand pounds of thrust for fourteen seconds.
From Space Tug by Leinster, Murray
Then they’d fire their jatos simultaneously, and in doing that they’d be acting as the second booster stage of a multiple-stage rocket.
From Space Platform by Leinster, Murray
The jatos of the pushpots used the beryllium-fluorine fuel that had lifted the Platform and that filled the take-off rockets of Joe's ship.
From Space Tug by Leinster, Murray
When they get it as high as they can, they’ll shoot their jatos, let go, and come bumbling back home.
From Space Platform by Leinster, Murray
They were substitutes for the jatos the pushpots carried.
From Space Tug by Leinster, Murray
They were eight miles up when the pushpots fired their jatos, an’ twelve miles up when the pushpots let go—they musta near broke their pilots’ necks when they caught their motors again!
From Space Platform by Leinster, Murray
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