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BAE Systems of a concept design from the company's archive of a Fighter Jet Take-Off Platform which was a concept platform that would rise vertically from the ground and allow an aircraft to take-off from its back, allowing planes to operate from small airstrips or narrow forest clearings. Inventions designed by British engineers in the 1960s have been brought to life in a display more in keeping with an episode of the Thunderbirds. The forgotten designs, which have been unearthed in BAE Systems' archives, include a hypersonic space-plane capable of travelling at five times the speed of sound, a jeep that leaps over enemy blockades and a commercial aircraft able to take off and land vertically in densely populated cities. Photo credit should read: (Photo by BAE Systems/PA Wire)
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