"Old Geezerr" wrote in message
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Wasn't that an exparimental setup, with a liquid fuel rocket motor
built into the fuselage, at the base of the vertical stabilizer?
Yup, the NF-104, which Chuck Yeager rocketed up to 108,000 feet and almost
didn't live to tell about it:
http://tinyurl.com/q4qjsn8