High speed airplane having auxiliary rockets

Claim 1

AN AIRPLANE WHICH COMPRISES, IN COMBINATION, A LIFT PRODUCING AIRFRAME, A MAIN POWER PLANT MOUNTED ON SAID AIRFRAME TO PROVIDE HORIZONTAL PROPULSIVE POWER FOR NORMAL FLIGHT OF SAID AIRPLANE ROCKET ENGINE MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID AIRFRAME TO IMPART THERETO A TEMPORARY AUXILIARY THRUST, SAID ROCKET ENGINE MEANS BEING DISPOSED SO THAT ITS THRUST IS DIRECTED UPWARDLY AND FORWARDLY ALONG A LINE PASSING AT LEAST APPROXIMATELY THROUGH THE CENTER OF GRAVITY OF THE AIRPLANE AND WHICH MAKES WITH THE DIRECTION PERPENDICULAR TO THE ZERO LIFT PLANE OF THE AIRPLANE AND ANGLE OF AT MOST 30* AND ALWAYS AT MOST EQUAL TO ONE HALF OF THE MAXIMUM ANGLE OF INCIDENCE OF SAID AIRFRAME PROPELLED BY SAID MAIN PROPULSIVE POWER PLANT, SAID MAIN POWER PLANT INCLUDING MEANS FOR DELIVERING COMPRESSED AIR CAPABLE OF ASSISTING SAID ROCKET ENGINE MEANS, THE WHOLE OF SAID ROCKET ENGINE AND SAID AIR DELIVERING MEANS BEING OF A POWER SUCH THAT IT IS CAPABLE OF ACHIEVING A SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICAL TAKE OFF OF SAID AIRPLAINE.