Ill-fated efforts to build rocket-powered fighters gave wartime aviation visionaries a humbling lesson in going nowhere fast. On the early afternoon of May 29, 1944, Flight Lt. G. R. Crakanthorp rolled his Spitfire Mk XI reconnaissance fighter into a left bank, turning northwest high over Nazi Germany. At 37,000 feet, flying one of the fastest …
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