Jet Jackson's Silver Dart was actually the Douglas D-558 Phase II (Skyrocket). It had both jet and rocket engines. The jet engine would let it take off and land on the ground like a conventional aircraft, and the four rocket engines would let go fast enough to break the sound barrier. The real Skyrocket was the first aircraft to go twice the speed of sound (Mach 2) piloted by Scott Crossfield. The aircraft is now displayed in the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C. hanging from the ceiling of the second floor in the east wing, near the Bell X-1 which was the first aircraft to go faster than the speed of sound, piloted by Chuck Yeager.
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