Engineering:List of rocket aircraft

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This is a list of Rocket-powered aircraft.

|- | 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

  • Mixed-powerplant SNCASO SO.9000 Trident with tail rocket and wing-mounted jets

  • Air-launched Bell X-1A

  • 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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