Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An aircraft powered by one or more rocket engines.
- n. An aircraft designed to carry and launch rockets.
Wiktionary
- n. A winged aircraft that is propelled by a rocket engine
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“For Chuck Yeager and the rocket plane pilots of the ’50s and ’60s there was the Happy Bottom Riding Club near Edwards AFB; for the early astronauts, it was the Mouse Trap Lounge in Cocoa Beach, Florida.”
“Only the three Mercury astronauts who had already made their spaceflights—Al Shepard, Gus Grissom, and John Glenn—had actually flown farther out of the atmosphere than Armstrong had in the X-15; and Neil was the only one in the entire group who had ever flown a rocket plane or won the Octave Chanute Award.”
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