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Re: The Need For Speed ... or Everything In Moderation

> I am told that this is a true story!!  Make of it what you will.
> 
> The Arizona Highway Patrol came upon a pile of smoldering metal
> embedded into the side of a cliff rising above the road at the apex of
> a curve. The wreckage resembled the site of an airplane crash, but it
> was a car. The type of car was unidentifiable at the scene.  The lab
> finally figured out what it was and what had happened.
> 
> It seems a guy had somehow gotten hold of a JATO unit (Jet Assisted
> Take Off - actually a solid fuel rocket) that is used to give heavy
> military transport planes an extra "push" for taking off from short
> airfields.  He had driven his Chevy Impala out into the desert and
> found a long, straight stretch of road.  Then he attached the JATO
> unit to his car, jumped in, got up some speed and fired off the JATO!

Sorry, this is an urban legend.


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