List of rocket-powered aircraft

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This is a list of Rocket-powered aircraft.

Type Country Class Role Date Status No. Notes
Arado E.381 Kleinstjäger Germany Air launch Fighter 1944 Project 0 Carried by an Arado Ar 234
Avro 720 UK 1956 Project 0 Mixed power.
Bachem Ba 349 "Natter" Germany VTOL Fighter 1945 Production Point defence interceptor. Never saw action.[1]
Bell X-1 USA Air launch Research 1947 Prototype First aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight (Also conventional take off on one occasion).
Bell X-2 USA Air launch Research 1955 Prototype Supersonic.
Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 USSR CTOL Fighter 1942
Bisnovat 5 USSR CTOL 1948 Project Based on captured DFS 346. Never flew under power.
Cattaneo Magni RR Italy CTOL Research 1931 Prototype
Cheranovsky RP-1 USSR CTOL Research 1932 Prototype Test in 1933 ended in engine failure.
DFS 194 Germany CTOL Experimental 1940 Operational Tailless.
Douglas D-588-II Skyrocket USA Air launch Research 1953 Operational Supersonic.
EZ-Rocket USA CTOL Experimental 2001 Prototype Rocket-powered variant of Rutan Long-EZ.
Focke-Wulf Volksjäger Germany CTOL Fighter 1944 Project 0 Three rocket-powered variants under construction at the end of hostilities.[2]
Hawker P.1072 UK 1949 Prototype 1 Mixed power
Heinkel He 112R Germany Experimental 1937 Operational Rocket and piston engines.
Heinkel He 176 Germany CTOL Research 1939 Prototype 1
He P.1077 Julia Germany CTOL Fighter 1944 Project 0
Ju EF.127 Walli Germany CTOL Fighter 1944 Project 0
Korolyov RP-318 USSR CTOL Research 1940
Lavochkin La-7R USSR 1945 Rocket and piston engines.
Lippisch Ente Germany CTOL Research 1928 Prototype first rocket-powered aircraft
Lockheed NF-104A USA Trainer 1963 Rocket and jet engines.
Martin Marietta X-24A USA Air launch Research 1969 Prototype Lifting body.
Martin Marietta X-24B USA Air launch Research 1973 Prototype Lifting body.
Messerschmitt Me 163 Germany CTOL Fighter 1941 Production Tailless.
Messerschmitt Me 263 Germany CTOL Fighter 1944 also known as Ju 248, development of Me 163.
Messerschmitt P.1104 Germany Air launch Fighter 1944 Project
Mitsubishi J8M Japan CTOL Fighter 1945 Was to have been a licensed Messerschmitt Me 163 but the plans were lost so was only similar.
Mizuno Shinryu II Japan CTOL 1945 Project Second aircraft developed in Japan to use a canard design after the J7W1.
North American X-15 USA Air launch Research 1959 Operational Hypersonic. Later variants capable of sub-orbital space flight.
Northrop XP-79 USA CTOL Fighter 1944 Prototype Flying wing. Converted to jet power for first and only flight.
Opel RAK.1 Germany CTOL Research 1929 Operational 1 First rocket-powered aircraft.
Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor USA 1949 Rocket and jet engines.
Rikugun Ki-202 Japan CTOL Fighter 1945 Improved J8M/Ki-200 with the elongated fuselage.
RRL Mark-III X-racer USA CTOL Racer 2010 [3]
RRL Mark I X-racer USA CTOL Racer 2006 Customized Velocity SE, prototype for Rocket Racing League.[4][5]
Saunders-Roe SR.53 UK Fighter 1957 Prototype Jet and rocket power.
Saunders-Roe SR.177 UK Fighter 1958 Project Jet and rocket power. Development of SR.53.
SNCASO Trident France Experimental 1953 Prototype Jet and rocket power.
SNCASE SE-212 Durandal France Fighter 1956 Prototype Mixed power.
Sombold So 344 Germany Air launch 1944 Project bomber box buster with a detachable explosive nose.
Sukhoi Su-7 USSR 1944 Sukhoi Su-6 with rocket and piston engines.
Yakovlev Yak-3RD USSR 1945 Prototype Modified Yakovlev Yak-3 with rocket and piston engines.
Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka Japan Air launch Attack 1945 Production Kamikaze aircraft.
Zeppelin Fliegende Panzerfaust Germany Air launch 1944 Project 0 towed behind a Messerschmitt Me 109G
Zeppelin Rammer Germany Air launch Fighter 1944 Project 0 designed to use the aerial ramming technique against Allied bombers

Gallery

  • Conventional takeoff Messerschmitt Me 163
    Conventional takeoff Messerschmitt Me 163
  • Mixed-powerplant SNCASO SO.9000 Trident with tail rocket and wing-mounted jets
    Mixed-powerplant SNCASO SO.9000 Trident with tail rocket and wing-mounted jets
  • Air-launched Bell X-1A
    Air-launched Bell X-1A
  • Vertically-launched Bachem Ba 349 Natter
    Vertically-launched Bachem Ba 349 Natter

References

  1. ^ Sharp, D.; Luftwaffe: Secret Jets of the Third Reich, Morton's, 2015.
  2. ^ Luft'46 - Focke-Wulf Volksjäger
  3. ^ Flying inside the groove: the latest rocket-powered test aircraft take just four seconds to get into the air from ignition. The brink of take-off for the RRL, Aerospace Testing International, June 2010, pp. 50-54, accessed 2010-09-06.
  4. ^ X-Racers, Start Your Rockets! : The creators of the X prize offer a sensational vision of rocket-powered airplanes speeding through the sky. But can their new racing league steal a bit of Nascar's thunder?, Michael Belfiore, Popular Science (feature cover story), 2006-02-15, accessed 2010-09-02.
  5. ^ XCOR X-Racer, by Nancy Atkinson, Universe Today, 2009-08-06, accessed 2010-12-11.
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