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  • noun Plural form of jato.

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Examples

  • Guardian | I want to be a ballerina Antes de me ficar pela minha relutante carreira docente, andei ambivalente entre ser cowboy, piloto de jatos de combate ou astronauta.

    Leituras Artur 2006

  • Came the shift when D-l13 was ready and the jatos readjusted.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • The sound of the motors was drowned out by the jatos 'roar.

    Space Platform Leinster, Murray, 1896- 1953

  • When they get it as high as they can, they'll shoot their jatos, let go, and come bumbling home.

    Space Platform Leinster, Murray, 1896- 1953

  • But the jatos had thrown it ahead and out of the rockets 'target area.

    Space Platform Leinster, Murray, 1896- 1953

  • The Platform carried rockets to be used as the third stage of a multiple stage rocket complex, after the pushpots and their jatos had served as the first two stages.

    Space Platform Leinster, Murray, 1896- 1953

  • Then they're fire their jatos simultaneously, and in so doing they'd be acting as the second booster stage of a multiple stage rocket.

    Space Platform Leinster, Murray, 1896- 1953

  • These jatos gave the pushpots themselves an acceleration of ten gravities, but it had to be shared with the cage and the ship.

    Space Tug Murray Leinster 1935

  • The jatos of the pushpots used the beryllium-fluorine fuel that had lifted the Platform and that filled the take-off rockets of Joe's ship.

    Space Tug Murray Leinster 1935

  • Mike said: "Communications says get set to fire jatos, Joe."

    Space Tug Murray Leinster 1935

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