[QUOTE=467 sqn RAAF;1975316]according to wiki…

North American had scoured the literature to find any additional advantage. This led them to an obscure report by two NACA wind tunnel experts who wrote a report in 1956 entitled “Aircraft Configurations Developing High Lift-Drag Ratios at High Supersonic Speeds”. Known today as compression lift,

A very brutal solution considering the elegance of a certain European designed Atlantic shuttle….:p