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 |
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Lippisch Ente | Germany | CTOL | Research | 1928 | Prototype | first rocket-powered aircraft | |
Opel RAK.1 | Germany | CTOL | Research | 1929 | Prototype | first purpose-built rocket-powered aircraft | |
Heinkel He 176 | Germany | CTOL | Research | 1939 | Prototype | liquid-fuel rocket-powered testbed | |
Cheranovsky RP-1 | USSR | CTOL | Research | 1932 | Prototype | liquid-fuel OR-2 rocket engine-powered glider, test in 1933 ended in engine failure | |
Korolyov RP-318 | USSR | CTOL | Research sailplane | 1936-40 | powered by Glushko and Dushkin engines, ground tests in 1938, flown in 1940 | ||
DFS 194 | Germany | CTOL | 1940 | rocket-powered glider test plane | |||
Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 | USSR | CTOL | Fighter | 1942 | short-range interceptor powered by Dushkin and Isaev engines | ||
Messerschmitt Me 163 | Germany | CTOL | Fighter | 1944 | Production | tailless rocket-powered interceptor used in World War II | |
Messerschmitt Me 263 | Germany | CTOL | Fighter | 1944 | also known as Ju 248, development of Me 163 | ||
He P.1077 Julia | Germany | CTOL | Fighter | 1944 | proposed rocket-powered interceptor, not built. | ||
Focke-Wulf Volksjäger | Germany | CTOL | Fighter | 1944 | three units under construction at the time of the Surrender of Nazi Germany.[1] | ||
Ju EF.127 Walli | Germany | CTOL | Fighter | 1944 | proposed rocket-powered interceptor, not built | ||
Northrop XP-79 | USA | CTOL | Fighter | 1944 | Prototype | Flying wing. Converted to jet power for first and only flight. | |
Mitsubishi J8M | Japan | CTOL | Fighter | 1945 | was to have been a licensed Messerschmitt Me 163 but the plans were lost so was only similar. | ||
Rikugun Ki-202 | Japan | CTOL | Fighter | 1945 | Improved version of the J8M/Ki-200 with the fuselage elongated for longer flight endurance. | ||
Mizuno Shinryu II | Japan | CTOL | 1945 | Second aircraft developed in Japan to use a canard design after the J7W1. The end of the war stopped further development with none being built. | |||
Bisnovat 5 | USSR | CTOL | 1948 | Russian design based from earlier captured DFS 346, cancelled (never flew under power) | |||
EZ-Rocket | USA | CTOL | 2001 | experimental Rutan Long-EZ with rocket replacing piston engine | |||
Mark I X-racer | USA | CTOL | Racer | 2006 | Customized Velocity SE, prototype for Rocket Racing League.[2][3] | ||
Mark-III X-racer | USA | CTOL | Racer | 2010 | from Rocket Racing League[4] | ||
Heinkel He 112R | Germany | Mixed power | 1937 | flown with both Walther and von Braun rockets, piston engine used to achieve flight for test. | |||
Sukhoi Su-7 | USSR | Mixed power | 1944 | Sukhoi Su-6 with RD-1 kHz (chemical ignition RD-1) engine and piston engine. | |||
Yakovlev Yak-3RD | USSR | Mixed power | 1945 | Modified Yakovlev Yak-3 with Glushko RD-1 kHz engine and piston engine. | |||
Lavochkin La-7R | USSR | Mixed power | 1945 | Glushko RD-1 kHz engine and piston engine. | |||
Hawker P.1072 | UK | Mixed power | 1949 | test bed with Armstrong Siddeley Snarler rocket booster mounted in the tail | |||
Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor | USA | Mixed power | 1949 | rocket and jet engines | |||
SNCASO Trident | France | Mixed power | 1953 | rocket mounted in tail and turbojet engines on wingtips | |||
SNCASE SE-212 Durandal | France | Mixed power | 1956 | prototype interceptor | |||
Avro 720 | UK | Mixed power | 1956 | mixed power cancelled before flight | |||
Saunders-Roe SR.53 | UK | Mixed power | Fighter | 1957 | Prototype | prototype interceptor, first flew 1957, cancelled 1960. | |
Saunders-Roe SR.177 | UK | Mixed power | Fighter | 1957 | Project | development of SR.53, cancelled 1958 | |
Lockheed NF-104A | USA | Mixed power | 1963 | rocket and jet engine powered spaceflight trainer | |||
Sombold So 344 | Germany | Air launch | 1944 | bomber box buster with a detachable explosive nose (Project only). | |||
Fliegende Panzerfaust | Germany | Air launch | 1944 | towed behind a Messerschmitt Me 109G | |||
Zeppelin Rammer | Germany | Air launch | Fighter | 1944 | Project | designed to use the aerial ramming technique against Allied bombers. | |
Arado E.381Kleinstjäger | Germany | Air launch | 1944 | Project | carried by an Arado Ar 234 | ||
Messerschmitt P.1104 | Germany | Air launch | Fighter | 1944 | Project | short-range interceptor | |
Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka | Japan | Air launch | Attack | 1945 | Kamikaze aircraft | ||
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) | |
Douglas D-588-II Skyrocket | USA | Air launch | 1953 | supersonic research aircraft | |||
Bell X-2 | USA | Air launch | Research | 1955 | Prototype | Supersonic | |
North American X-15 | USA | Air launch | Research | 1959 | Prototype | Hypersonic. later variants capable of sub-orbital space flight. | |
Martin Marietta X-24A | USA | Air launch | Research | 1969 | Prototype | Lifting body | |
Martin Marietta X-24B | USA | Air launch | Research | 1973 | Prototype | Lifting body | |
Bachem Ba 349 "Natter" | Germany | Vertical takeoff | Fighter | 1945 | Production | Point defence interceptor. Production examples never deployed.[5] |
Gallery
References
- ^ Luft'46 - Focke-Wulf Volksjäger
- ^ 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.
- ^ XCOR X-Racer, by Nancy Atkinson, Universe Today, 2009-08-06, accessed 2010-12-11.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Sharp, D.; Luftwaffe: Secret Jets of the Third Reich, Morton's, 2015.