Rick Jones wrote:
Gonna take a really tiny pilot... ;-)

Instead of announcing the arrival, Tatoo could be flying zee plane

The manned cruise missile that would have been really wild to fly was
the proposed manned version of the Soviet "Buran" Mach 3 rocket boosted
intercontinental ramjet.
Myasishchev intended to use that in somewhat the same manner that the US
did the X-15.
I don't know if this was a serious North American proposal or just
Strombecker models screwing around, but a manned interceptor based on
the Navaho missile is fairly nifty also:
http://fantastic-plastic.com/ITCF-108RAPIERPAGE.htm
The F-108 design they finally settled on didn't ride on the back of a
booster rocket, but they did propose launching a X-15 on a Navaho
booster: http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/g26x15.jpg

Pat