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n. An aircraft with rocket propulsion, including a rocket pack, a rocket plane, etc.
Usage examples of "rocket aircraft".
He said German Intelligence had learned that pilotless rocket aircraft were being tested along the inlet from the Solent and it was his job to discover how far ahead the British scientists were with their experiments.
Seems to me if you can transit from New York to London in no time at all you'd be foolish to take a rocket aircraft that would take all of fifty minutes.
Instead of the thousand-ton boosters whose bones now littered the Atlantic deeps, men were building far more efficient aerospace planes-giant rocket aircraft which could- climb up to orbit with their cargoes, then return to Earth for another mission.
Air Force wanted to go for a spaceplanea two-man vehicle that would have pushed the explored frontier to the fringes of space, the natural step from the rocket aircraft you had been flying.