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Goddard Patents Rocket Plane Combining Air and Space Travel
Professor Robert H. Goddard, America's top rocketeer, received a new patent for a dual rocket airplane that operates as a conventional aircraft in the troposphere and a rocket in higher skies. The design envisions jet exhaust propulsion at altitude, retractable aircraft parts, and a safe landing sequence after reentry, with current aims toward stratospheric flights and improving propulsion and stabilization.
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