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All documents about Zero-length launch what a crazy idea. :)Thank you.

Hello, Described in both Naval Fighters #75: Grumman F7F Tigercat and F7F Tigercat in Action is a zero-length launch rack for launching the 11.75" Tiny Tim rocket without need for a drop beforehand, developed at NOTS China Lake and intended for the F7F. Evidently it seems it's only for the...

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If interested, check youtube, - I recall seeing some spectacular footage of F-84s being launched thusly..

I'm not seeing the VTOL here. Zero-length launch just refers to the use of Rocket assist and a launch rail to get a basically conventional aircraft airborne without a runway. Landing would still require a strip of some sort.

Somewhat similar in concept to NATO's ZEL (Zero Length Launch) experiments of the 1950's. The Soviets also came back to this concept with MiG's SM-30. http://www.vectorsite.net/avzel.html

here M-52 "Zero length Start" with Rockets booster Source here http://www.testpilot.ru/russia/myasishchev/m/52/m52.htm by the way of all of those "Launch" system do very brutal thing with M-52 Airframe how much of those launches can take the bomber ?

I also found a couple b/w photos, from what appears to be the mid 50s at Martin Middle River,MD of the Matador missile, also on a "zero length" launch truck. Will scan and post later.

Folks, I have been asked to find material for a television production (not broadcast, web-site) on the Zero Length Launcher project. Are there any of your contacts with memories, or even better, film of the F-84 and or F-100 launches, etc? Walt Boyne

...tail-sitter jets with JATO assist. Riding JATOs and after-burners, the cluster would help boost main rocket to fair altitude, peel away to land vertically... Remember this was the 'Crazy Fifties' when zero-length launches, parasite fighters, tail-sitter interceptors etc seemed reasonable..

Hello, Hope this isn't too far off-topic but I'm puzzled by the caption on one image at: http://www.testpilot.ru/usa/convair/b/58/super/super.htm. The image apparently shows a model Super Hustler equipped for ZELL, (zero length launch). I'd thought ZELL was for vertical (or near-vertical)...

Was this design meant as a competing concept to the zero-length launch fighter, I wonder? Certainly the Luftwaffe were interested in the ZEL concept. Although, from what we can see of the design, it seems have been intended as a (relatively lightweight) battlefront interceptor or the like rather...

Rocketdyne M-34 ZLL Motor Thrust: 130,000 lbf for 4 seconds. Notes: Used for Zero-Length Launching of USAF F-100D Super Sabres. Development began under USAF R&D contract in 1957. Can accelerate a F-100D from zero to 275 MPH in under four seconds. References: Jane’s All the World Aircraft: 1960-1961

Aviation Week 27th May 1976

Sorry, ZEL stands for Zero-Length Launch, a concept for using rocket boosters to launch manned aircraft (primarily nuclear armed strike aircraft and air defense interceptors) from trailers, trucks, or semi-prepared launch sites in the field, although some tests were also done with hardened...

From the photos I've seen--while not definitive--of the mounting on the F4U and PBJ, it looks like the exact same one used on the F7F. I have seen one photo of a PBJ in testing dropping the Tiny Tim and you can see the still attached umbilical cord used in early testing designs.

Dilandu, you are correct in you assessment. I was looking at the Navy's immediate interest in RATO (JATO) or a sea launched long range artillery rocket (similar to a ship launched V-2). There maybe other concepts, such as Fleet Defense using a rocket powered aircraft similar to the Natter or a...

Yes, as a follow-on to earlier F-84 experiments. The F-100 was tested with a simulated nuclear store on one wing, but most pictures have been censored.

...or alternatively in the infrastructure/point defence role, such a drawback could also be partly alleviated using a mobile ZELL (Zero-Length Launcher) ground setup such as shown below (photo via the somewhat short and inaccurate Wikipedia article on Zero-Length Launch). We have the same photo...

first,H-8 and the J-12 which was purely for parasite launching. second,chinese J-12 zero length launch program. third,the J-12 which was exported to Vietnam.