Metro's with JATO bottles?

[Corona]

Perhaps the JATO Metro comments could be repeated on the "Suppose an airplane is on a moving runway" thread. Now, that would resurrect some serious debate! (Not)

C

 

[PreRVSM]

The Swearingen ELT,,,, you follow the smoke trail to the crash site.


I was a night shift mechanic at an airline when we had 4 of these JATO bottles time out.
The first one we had the brake on, the boys in the cockpit didn't even know it light off as it did not burn through the wire. It had a small wire that went in front of the rockets output to give a cockpit light.
We did #2 without brakes,, did not move the plane.
#3 got ugly as it burned a hole in the side of the tail cone,,, when the rocket did not work right. Thats when the "fun" at night shift came to an end,, kinda hard to explain that one to the boss.
#4, removed the tail cone,, still did not move the aircraft

The Super 3 mod was a new compressor,, to improve power output.

 

[TXDA2000]

There is a great old story of a Metro Airlilnes Metro that had there Jato bottle fire waiting in line at DFW. The guy behind them in a widebody radioed ground and said "DFW ground, could you let Metro XXX know that he just farted"

Some of us still get to fly these lovely birds, luckily ours is short and has -10's.

 

[ArcticFlier]

It provided a smoke trail to the point of impact.....................


That is all,


AF

 

[flx757]

There is a great old story of a Metro Airlilnes Metro that had there Jato bottle fire waiting in line at DFW. The guy behind them in a widebody radioed ground and said "DFW ground, could you let Metro XXX know that he just farted"

Some of us still get to fly these lovely birds, luckily ours is short and has -10's.

I don't think that was Metro. AFAIK, they didn't operate the Metroliner. Only BE-99s, Twin Otters and Convair 580s. I'm pretty sure the airline in that story (embellished a bit, but it actually did happen where the JATO was fired waiting in line for takeoff) was Rio Airways.