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by NickNameNick 2856 days ago
Rather than JATO bottles, a better option may be to have an 'electric runway', that allows you to draw ground-power while accelerating down the runway, which might save a non-trivial amount of battery capacity, and may allow you to run your motors at a higher power output than the batteries would normally allow. As an added bonus, the runway could be shorter.