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2. Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet - Wikipedia

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   The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet is a rocket-powered interceptor aircraft primarily designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt. It is the only operational rocket-powered fighter aircraft in history as well as the first piloted aircraft of any type to exceed 1,000 kilometres per hour (620 mph) in level flight.

3. Walter HWK 109-509 - Wikipedia

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   The Walter HWK 109-509 was a German liquid-fuel bipropellant rocket engine that powered the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet and Bachem Ba 349 aircraft. It was produced by Hellmuth Walter Kommanditgesellschaft (HWK) commencing in 1943, with licensed production by the Heinkel firm's facilities in Jenbach, Austria.

4. Me 163 Komet - Wikipedia

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   Me 163 Komet. Add languages. ... General What links here; Related changes; Upload file; ... QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; From Wikipedia ...

5. Messerschmitt Me 263 - Wikipedia

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   Messerschmitt Me 263. The Messerschmitt Me 263 Scholle (plaice) [1] was a rocket -powered fighter aircraft developed from the Me 163 Komet towards the end of World War II. Three prototypes were built but never flown under their own power as the rapidly deteriorating military situation in Germany prevented the completion of the test program.

6. Jagdfaust - Wikipedia

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   Jagdfaust. The Sondergerät SG 500 Jagdfaust ("hunting fist") or Jägerfaust ("hunter's fist") was an experimental airborne anti-bomber recoilless rifle designed for use in the Me 163 Komet rocket plane [ 1] by the German Luftwaffe during World War II .

7. Hanna Reitsch - Wikipedia

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   Reitsch was asked to fly many of Germany's latest designs, among them the rocket-propelled Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet in 1942. [20] And as such, she became the first and only woman in the world to fly a rocket plane. [citation needed] A crash landing on her fifth Me 163 flight badly injured Reitsch; she spent five months in a hospital ...

8. Hellmuth Walter Kommanditgesellschaft - Wikipedia

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   Hellmuth Walter Kommanditgesellschaft (HWK), Helmuth Walter Werke (HWM), or commonly known as the Walter-Werke, was a German company founded by Professor Hellmuth Walter to pursue his interest in engines using hydrogen peroxide as a propellant. Having experimented with torpedoes and submarines, Walter began to design rocket engines for aircraft ...

9. DFS Habicht - Wikipedia

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   The Me 163 was designed to use its entire load of rocket fuel to reach combat altitude of approximately 10,000 metres (33,000 ft), before returning to land as a fast glider. Trainees therefore began on a Stummel-Habicht , in which the original 14 metres (46 ft) wingspan, was modified to one having an 8 metres (26 ft) wingspan, and another ...