F104 Starfighter
X15 Rocketplane
Raw thrust overcomes a multitude of short winged sins ;)
Yea, raw thrust works when you don’t have gross mass!
“the mass fraction of an SSTO would have to be about 0.87, which means the structure and payload of the vehicle is 13% of the total weight of the fueled vehicle”
http://vorlon.case.edu/~jam64/work/ssto.htm
Spot on.