[Scan-DC] Bush, at KADW, on way to Blacksburg

[b_thom at juno.com]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:09:35 -0400 John Wilson <w4uvv at comcast.net>
writes:
>   When?  Not the one I flew in to St. Thomas when I was in the Navy 
> tdy 
> to San Juan NS in 1962.  Nothing of sort was required.  Harry S. 
> Truman 
> airport  is a small airport but no problem for any DC3.  Caribe 
> Airways 
> passenger fleet hub resident there consisted entirely of DC3s and 
> they 
> certainly didn't use JATO.   I don't know where you got that 
> ridiculous 
> idea but it is nonsense.

Thanks to Google, here is a picture of a JATO-equipped Caribair Convair
340 taking off from Harry S. Truman Airport.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0147604&size=M

http://www.google.com/search?q=caribair+jato

Isn't this a lovely day?