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Old 4th Feb 2016, 15:53
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The doors you see opening are well aft of the nose wheel doors. The rocket pod doors are abreast the wing leading edge. The pod dropped, fired and closed quite quickly. I've often wondered why this idea wasn't used in later aircraft.
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