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Old 02-15-2005   #11 (permalink)
streaker69
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Originally Posted by Dutch
LOL.... Reminds me of the Darwin Award story, about the guy strapping a JATO unit to his car... (JATO = Jet Assisted Take Off, a selfcontained small rocket motor, used to assist heavy military aircrafts in short field take of).

Dutch
http://www.snopes.com/autos/dream/jato.asp

Never happened.. Plus it's one of the very first myths busted on Mythbusters.
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