8. Rolls-Royce Pegasus VTOL Engine for Harrier Jets

First run in 1969, the Pegasus engine unlocked vertical takeoff for the Harrier, allowing combat sorties from tiny decks and rough fields that fixed-wing jets once shunned.
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