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2 unusual facts about HOTOL


LAPCAT

HOTOL (1986–88 design for single-stage-to-orbit reusable winged launch vehicle to use an air-breathing engine)

Precooled jet engine

The two teams met and created HOTOL, which would use the BAe designed airframe with a Rolls Royce version of Bond's engine, known as the RB545.


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Science Realm

Science Realms predecessor Science Dawn was a classified program to build a rocket-launched supersonic horizontal-take off horizontal-landing (HOTOL) SSTO spaceplane.


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