1944     8 Sept. 2/6  				Experiments with jato—the Navy's abbreviation for jet assisted take offs—began in 1941 at Annapolis.
1957     413  				The missile is using jet-assisted rocket bottles to launch it.
2006    V. Smil  ii. 70  				Because its turbojet engines could not develop enough thrust, the plane had 18 small rocket units in the fuselage for jet-assisted takeoff.