In article ,
(Jack Linthicum) writes:

One ISOT story from Analog about a guy flying a cross between an SR-71
and and a F-35, hyper sonic and VTOL. He joins the Allies, can't get a
lock on his missiles against the WWI Germans but eventually does a
mach 3.0 sweep through a German circus. He needed to filter the 1917
kerosene through chamois for fuel.

"Hawk Among the Sparrows" (Dang, I forgot who wrote it).
The aircraft was the Pika-Don, a carrier-based hypersonic VTOL (It had
skids, rather than wheels, so it wasn't a VSTOL) used for intercept
ICBM warheads.

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Pete Stickney
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures. -- Daniel Webster