me 163 komet

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The Me 163 Komet was the only operational rocket-powered fighter aircraft during the Second World War. Although revolutionary and capable of performance unrivalled at the time, it proved dangerous to operate and resulted in the destruction of very few Allied aircraft.
Work on the design started under the aegis of the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (DFS) — the German Institute for the Study of sailplane flight. Their first design was a conversion of the earlier Lippisch Delta IV known as the DFS 39 and used purely as a glider testbed of the airframe.

A larger follow-on version with a small propeller engine started as the DFS 194. This version used wingtip-mounted rudders, which Lippisch felt would cause problems at high speed, and he later redesigned them to be mounted on a conventional vertical stabilizer at the rear of the aircraft. The design included a number of features from its glider heritage, notably a skid used for landings, which could be retracted into the aircraft's keel in flight. For takeoff, wheels were needed due to the weight of the fuel, but these were released shortly after takeoff. It was planned to move to the Walter R-1-203 cold engine of 400 kg (882 lbf) thrust when available.

Heinkel had also been working with Walter on his rocket engines, mounting them in the He 112 for testing, and later the first purpose-designed rocket aircraft, the He 176. Heinkel had also been selected to produce the fuselage for the DFS 194 when it entered production, as it was felt that the highly volatile fuel would be too dangerous in a wooden fuselage, with which it could react. Work continued under the code name Project X.

However the division of work between DFS and Heinkel led to problems, notably that DFS seemed incapable of building even a prototype fuselage. Lippisch eventually requested to leave DFS and join Messerschmitt instead. On January 2 1939 he moved along with his team and the partially completed DFS 194 to the Messerschmitt works at Augsburg.

The delays caused by this move allowed the engine development to "catch up", and once at Messerschmitt the decision was made to skip over the propeller-powered version and move directly to rocket power. The airframe was completed in Augsburg and shipped to Peenemünde West in early 1940 to receive its engine. Although the engine proved to be extremely unreliable, the aircraft had excellent performance, reaching a speed of 342 mph in one test.
Production of a prototype series started in early 1941, known as the Me 163. Secrecy was such that the number, 163, was actually that of the earlier Bf 163 project to produce a small two-passenger light plane, which had competed against the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch for a production contract, as it was thought that intelligence services would conclude any reference to the number would be for that earlier design. Me 163 A V1 was shipped to Peenemünde to receive an updated engine, and on October 2 1941, a successor aircraft, the Me 163 A V3, bearing the radio call sign letters "CD+IM", set a new world speed record of 1,004.5 km/h (623.8 mph). This would not be officially approached until the post-war period by the new jet fighters of the British and US, and was not surpassed until the American Douglas Skystreak turbojet-powered research aircraft did so on August 20, 1947. Five prototype Me 163 V's were built, adding to the original DFS 194, followed by eight production examples designated Me 163 A-0.

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[kennethjohngujol]

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[lucasor]

i'm fapping to this so hard right now

[Caterpillarjon]

@politirel I heard that the reason they only shot down 9 planes was they were too fast. They would fly by bombers so fast that they only had like 1second of actual time to aim and fire the guns. It was revolutionary but was impractical to attack slow prop driven bombers. They equipped some with cannons that fired straight whenever they fly under a bomber. The change in light created by the shadow of the bomber would automatically set off the cannons. One bomber was shot down like this.

[sardosfish]

impressive

[KartKing4ever]

lol at description

[politirel]

They built 300 of them and they shot down only 9 planes.

[sardosfish]

superiority of german aircraft inww2!

[JinKazama92]

Haha, cool.

[internetcafe111]

May be Michelangelo already designed a prototype of this type of rocket-plane, but what counts is it's introduction.

[ArielCaboob]

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