Talk:Assisted take-off

This is a stupid question, but i just wondered when i read about jet donkey, how did the engineers miss the effect of Wake Turbulence? That donkey is so small compared to some planes that i find it hard to believe it could have handle the resulting turbulence

I don't think that it would have to, it sounds a lot like Eugen Sänger's version of the Amerika Bomber the Silbervogel. The pertinent words here are "rail". In Sanger's version the rocket powered dolly would be permantly attached to the rails which would be securely fixed tothe ground. In Philip Bono's "Frontiers of Space" there are a couple of illustrations of such captive rocket booster configurations from the 60's.Koonan the almost civilised 22:57, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Read the article properly, and I've got it wrong. I thought the donkey was the dolly, rather than a seperate aircraft. Koonan the almost civilised 23:17, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Should there be a reference here to the other term CATO, meaning "Catastrophic On Take-Off"? Model rocketeers use it to describe a rocket that detonates on launch, and I'd assume the term has spread to the professional field.Fresnel149 (talk) 15:04, 7 May 2008 (UTC)