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Simulated loci of the radio jets of SS 433 for the settings vj/D = 0.2581c/4.8 kpc – the dynamic jet loci are marked by pluses every 20d of a flight, and the ballistic jet loci are marked by dots every 5d beginning from a flight-time of Ppr/2 – are superimposed on the image of the jets (courtesy of Dr. D.H. Roberts). Every simulated jet trace has a length of 800 flight days. The solid helical line is the ballistic jet loci drawn by Roberts et al., (2010) for the settings vj/D = 0.2647c/5.5 kpc. Approaching/receding parts of this helix are blue/red (in the on-line version of this paper). We show the longitudinal Z and azimuthal Y axes of the rest frame of reference of the ballistic jet of our simulation, with the axes origin located at a particular jet segment. The displacement vector between this segment and the segment of the same flight-time in the dynamic jet demonstrates the deviation of the kinematics of the dynamic jets from the ballistic kinematics.

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