Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet
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The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet is a rocket-powered interceptor aircraft primarily designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt. It is the only operational rocket-powered fig
Me 163B on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force
Replica of Opel RAK's Lippisch Ente in Deutsches Segelflugmuseum as the world's first rocket-powered glider
Development of the Me 163
A Me 163's HWK 109-509A engine
Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka
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The Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka is a purpose-built, rocket-powered human-guided kamikaze attack aircraft that was produced by the Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal and deployed by Japan toward the end of W
Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet
…fuel line. Besides Nazi Germany, no nation ever made operational use of the Me 163; the only other operational rocket-powered aircraft was the Japanese Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka which was a manned flying bomb. The world's first piloted rocket flights were carried out by the German vehicle manufacturer Opel RAK. The first flight…
Ohka Model 11 replica at the Yasukuni Shrine Yūshūkan war museum.
Labelled diagram of a Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka
US personnel disarming the warhead of an Ohka, Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, April 1945
Thermojet powered Model 22; note the jet intake on the side just forward of the tail.