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Designed in the late 1940s, the English Electric Lightning was a jet so powerful it could climb to 40,000 feet in under 150 seconds and fly faster than Concorde. Despite its revolutionary stacked engine layout, which minimized asymmetric thrust, the design was almost canceled due to budget cuts and an official belief that supersonic flight was ...
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