Supersonic boom

It has been more than half a century since Chuck Yeager rocketed through the sound barrier and almost 40 years since the Hawker P1127, forerunner to the Harrier, first lifted off the runway. Nobody has yet been able to blend the two and field a supersonic short take-off and vertical ...

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