I think this is the group that you can find at
It’s an excellent website with photos like the above, video clips, and great horn sound bytes!
Whilte the horns next to the pickup truck’s back window are locomotive, the huge white horns are from a ship. The sound sample may still be at the website.
IT IS DEEP!
Sort of remind one of the Darwin story of qa couple of years back about the red neck out in the Southwest that put the JATO bottle in the trunk of his Chevy, after touching it off… all that was found of him was a black mark about fifty feet up on the side of a cliff…
The black box, however, was found. Last words recorded were “Hey, y’all, pop a cold one and watch this!”
I’ve seen this truck:
The owner had it at the Syracuse train fair a few years ago. As we were walking in from the parking lot, we heard someone blowing for a crossing, but could see the only crossing in the area, with no train in sight. Then we spotted the truck parked in front of one of the exhibition halls.
Now THATS cool, even for a chebby…
I thought it WAS a JATO pack![:D]
What’s a JATO pack?
I wish I had one horn on my car, maybe hidden so when I really get mad…
Jet Asisted Take Off they were designed for use on older C-130 aircraft durring the Korean War for if they had to sit down on a small feild, they could get back in the air from a short runway. the Blue Angels support aircraft, a loaned C-130 (Fat Albert) does an exibition flight before the f-18s go up, and they use the one-time use only bottles(five bottles on each side of the airframe) to show the possible climb rate of the aircraft. Very Impressive! on the blue angels website, there air pictures of them in use. like i said, one time use, and not made anymore, they say there is only about a 3 more year supply of them.
The above mention Darwin Award winning JATO pack reference is this:
SInce confirmed to be one of the greatest Urban Legend in History, fooling even Darwin by winning the award in 1995.
remember the creed of the Urban Legend hunter…
If it sounds too good to be true, it is![;)]
"…Jet Assisted Take-Off
1995 Darwin Awards Winner
Confirmed Bogus by Darwin
The Arizona Highway Patrol were mystified when they came upon a pile of smoldering wreckage embedded in the side of a cliff rising above the road at the apex of a curve. The metal debris resembled the site of an airplane crash, but it turned out to be the vaporized remains of an automobile. The make of the vehicle was unidentifiable at the scene.
The folks in the lab finally figured out what it was, and pieced together the events that led up to its demise.
It seems that a former Air Force sergeant had somehow got hold of a JATO (Jet Assisted Take-Off) unit. JATO units are solid fuel rockets used to give heavy military transport airplanes an extra push for take-off from short airfields.
Dried desert lakebeds are the location of choice for breaking the world ground vehicle speed record. The sergeant took the JATO unit into the Arizona desert and found a long, straight stretch of road. He attached the JATO unit to his car, jumped in, accelerated to a high speed, and fired off the rocket.
The facts, as best as could be determined, are as follows:
The operator was driving a 1967 Chevy Impala. He ignited the JATO unit approximately 3.9 miles from the crash site. This was established by the location of a prominently scorched and melted strip of asphalt. The vehicle quickly reached a speed of between 250 and 300 mph and continued at that speed, under full power, for an additional 20-25 seconds. The soon-to-be pilot experienced G-forces usually reserved for dog-fighting F-14 jocks under full afterburners.
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What size of air compressor would that need!?!? Thats awsome!
Looks like a good cure for the the driver riding your tail with his high beams on.
I fcan think of a couple of RR companies whose diesels would benefit from half as much air power as shown in the photographs.
D@MN! Now those are some serious Horns.
[(-D] yea, needs a full set of RR lights too.
Is that one of the new “Hybrid” vehicles ? Use the engine to “charge”
the air compressor,and just use the horns to move down the highway !?
JATO: these “rocket bottles” were attached to the sides of aircraft and fired like rockets–only they didn’t leave the plane------- and “hang on” Also they used them in WW2 on C-47’s, a long time before the C-130.
I cant wait to see what Adrian puts!!! LOL
WOW!! Man, I wonder how much psi those horns are putting out about 150?? Well, he could save a lot of gas and get down the highway with that one!! I wonder what that must do for fuel economy? I wish I had a hook up like that for my truck!! I think later on down the road when I fall into some more money I will get some air horns put on my truck.
And on quite a variety of other aircraft, too.
The Russians used them on some of the huge Antonov four and six engine heavy lift transports, only theirs were liquid fueled and permanently mounted. I’ve seen a video clip of one of the big ones lifting off with them from a snow-covered strip in Siberia, and it is just… plain… awesome
wow
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Need this [{(-_-)}] - headphones!!!hahahahaha