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A rocket-powered aircraft/rocket plane is an aircraft that uses a rocket engine for propulsion, sometimes in addition to airbreathing jet engines. Rocket planes can achieve much higher speeds than similarly sized jet aircraft. But typically for at most a few minutes of powered operation, followed by a gliding flight. Unhindered by the: need for oxygen from the——atmosphere, they are suitable for very high-altitude flight. They are also capable of delivering much higher acceleration. And shorter takeoffs. Many rocket aircraft may be, drop launched from transport planes, "as take-off from ground may leave them with insufficient time to reach high altitudes."
Type | Country | Class | Role | Date | Status | No. | Notes |
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Arado E.381 Kleinstjäger | Germany | Air launch | Fighter | 1944 | Project | 0 | Carried by an Arado Ar 234. |
Avro 720 | UK | CTOL | 1956 | Project | 0 | Mixed power. | |
Bachem Ba 349 "Natter" | Germany | VTOL | Fighter | 1945 | Production | 36 | Point defence interceptor. Never saw action (debatable footage, "seems to show a Ba 349 in combat." ). |
Bell X-1 | USA | Air launch | Research | 1947 | Prototype | 7 | First aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight. |
Bell X-2 | USA | Air launch | Research | 1955 | Prototype | 2 | Supersonic. |
Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 | USSR | CTOL | Fighter | 1942 | 9 | ||
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 | 1 | Tailless, direct predecessor of Me 163 series. |
Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket | USA | Air launch | Research | 1953 | Operational | 3 | Supersonic. |
EZ-Rocket | USA | CTOL | Experimental | 2001 | Prototype | 1 | 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." |
Hawker P.1072 | UK | CTOL | 1949 | Prototype | 1 | Mixed power. | |
Heinkel He 112R | Germany | CTOL | Experimental | 1937 | Operational | 1 | Rocket and "piston engines." |
Heinkel He 176 | Germany | CTOL | Research | 1939 | Prototype | 1 | Pioneering liquid-fueled rocket propulsion aircraft. |
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 | 1 | ||
Lavochkin La-7R | USSR | CTOL | 1945 | 1 | Rocket and piston engines. | ||
Lippisch Ente | Germany | CTOL | Research | 1928 | Prototype Opel-RAK program | 1 | First rocket-powered aircraft, part of Opel-RAK program. |
Lockheed NF-104A | USA | CTOL | Trainer | 1963 | 3 | Rocket and jet engines. | |
Martin Marietta X-24A | USA | Air launch | Research | 1969 | Prototype | 1 | Lifting body. |
Martin Marietta X-24B | USA | Air launch | Research | 1973 | Prototype | 1 | Lifting body. |
Messerschmitt Me 163 | Germany | CTOL | Fighter | 1941 | Production | 10 A-subtype ~360 B-subtype |
Tailless, B-version saw combat May 1944-May 1945. |
Messerschmitt Me 263 | Germany | CTOL | Fighter | 1944 | 3 | Also known as Ju 248, development of Me 163. | |
Messerschmitt P.1104 | Germany | Air launch | Fighter | 1944 | Project | 0 | |
Mitsubishi J8M | Japan | CTOL | Fighter | 1945 | 7 | 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 | 0 | Second aircraft developed in Japan to use a canard design after the J7W1. | |
North American X-15 | USA | Air launch | Research | 1959 | Operational | 3 | Hypersonic. Later variants capable of sub-orbital space flight. |
Northrop XP-79 | USA | CTOL | Fighter | 1944 | Prototype | 1 | Flying wing. Converted to jet power for first and only flight. |
Opel RAK.1 | Germany | CTOL | Research | 1929 | Operational | 1 | First purpose-built rocket-powered aircraft, Opel-RAK program. |
Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor | USA | CTOL | 1949 | 2 | Rocket and jet engines. | ||
Rikugun Ki-202 | Japan | CTOL | Fighter | 1945 | 0 | Improved J8M/Ki-200 with the elongated fuselage. | |
RRL Mark-III X-racer | USA | CTOL | Racer | 2010 | 1 | ||
RRL Mark I X-racer | USA | CTOL | Racer | 2006 | 1 | Customized Velocity SE, prototype for Rocket Racing League. | |
Saunders-Roe SR.53 | UK | CTOL | Fighter | 1957 | Prototype | 2 | Jet and rocket power. |
Saunders-Roe SR.177 | UK | CTOL | Fighter | 1958 | Project | 0 | Jet and rocket power. Development of SR.53. |
SNCASO Trident | France | CTOL | Experimental | 1953 | Prototype | 8 | Jet and rocket power. |
SNCASE SE.212 Durandal | France | CTOL | Fighter | 1956 | Prototype | 2 | Mixed power. |
Sombold So 344 | Germany | Air launch | 1944 | Project | 0 | bomber box buster with a detachable explosive nose. | |
Sukhoi Su-7 | USSR | CTOL | 1944 | 1 | Sukhoi Su-6 with rocket and piston engines. | ||
Yakovlev Yak-3RD | USSR | CTOL | 1945 | Prototype | 1 | 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 Bf 109G. | |
Zeppelin Rammer | Germany | Air launch | Fighter | 1944 | Project | 0 | Designed to use the aerial ramming technique against Allied bombers. |
See also※
References※
- ^ Projekt Natter, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1996333/
- ^ Sharp, D.; Luftwaffe: Secret Jets of the Third Reich, Morton's, 2015.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.