List of rocket aircraft

This is a list of Rocket-powered aircraft.

TypeCountryClassRoleDateStatusNotes
Lippisch EnteGermanyCTOLResearch1928Prototypefirst rocket-powered aircraft
Opel RAK.1GermanyCTOLResearch1929Prototypefirst purpose-built rocket-powered aircraft
Cattaneo Magni RRItalyCTOLResearch1931Prototype
Heinkel He 176GermanyCTOLResearch1939Prototypeliquid-fuel rocket-powered testbed
Cheranovsky RP-1USSRCTOLResearch1932Prototypeliquid-fuel OR-2 rocket engine-powered glider, test in 1933 ended in engine failure
Korolyov RP-318USSRCTOLResearch sailplane1936-40powered by Glushko and Dushkin engines, ground tests in 1938, flown in 1940
DFS 194GermanyCTOL1940rocket-powered glider test plane
Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1USSRCTOLFighter1942short-range interceptor powered by Dushkin and Isaev engines
Messerschmitt Me 163GermanyCTOLFighter1944Productiontailless rocket-powered interceptor used in World War II
Messerschmitt Me 263GermanyCTOLFighter1944also known as Ju 248, development of Me 163
He P.1077 JuliaGermanyCTOLFighter1944proposed rocket-powered interceptor, not built.
Focke-Wulf VolksjägerGermanyCTOLFighter1944three units under construction at the time of the Surrender of Nazi Germany.[1]
Ju EF.127 WalliGermanyCTOLFighter1944proposed rocket-powered interceptor, not built
Northrop XP-79USACTOLFighter1944PrototypeFlying wing. Converted to jet power for first and only flight.
Mitsubishi J8MJapanCTOLFighter1945was to have been a licensed Messerschmitt Me 163 but the plans were lost so was only similar.
Rikugun Ki-202JapanCTOLFighter1945Improved version of the J8M/Ki-200 with the fuselage elongated for longer flight endurance.
Mizuno Shinryu IIJapanCTOL1945Second 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 5USSRCTOL1948Russian design based from earlier captured DFS 346, cancelled (never flew under power)
EZ-RocketUSACTOL2001experimental Rutan Long-EZ with rocket replacing piston engine
Mark I X-racerUSACTOLRacer2006Customized Velocity SE, prototype for Rocket Racing League.[2][3]
Mark-III X-racerUSACTOLRacer2010from Rocket Racing League[4]
Heinkel He 112RGermanyMixed power1937flown with both Walther and von Braun rockets, piston engine used to achieve flight for test.
Sukhoi Su-7USSRMixed power1944Sukhoi Su-6 with RD-1 kHz (chemical ignition RD-1) engine and piston engine.
Yakovlev Yak-3RDUSSRMixed power1945Modified Yakovlev Yak-3 with Glushko RD-1 kHz engine and piston engine.
Lavochkin La-7RUSSRMixed power1945Glushko RD-1 kHz engine and piston engine.
Hawker P.1072UKMixed power1949test bed with Armstrong Siddeley Snarler rocket booster mounted in the tail
Republic XF-91 ThunderceptorUSAMixed power1949rocket and jet engines
SNCASO TridentFranceMixed power1953rocket mounted in tail and turbojet engines on wingtips
SNCASE SE-212 DurandalFranceMixed power1956prototype interceptor
Avro 720UKMixed power1956mixed power cancelled before flight
Saunders-Roe SR.53UKMixed powerFighter1957Prototypeprototype interceptor, first flew 1957, cancelled 1960.
Saunders-Roe SR.177UKMixed powerFighter1957Projectdevelopment of SR.53, cancelled 1958
Lockheed NF-104AUSAMixed power1963rocket and jet engine powered spaceflight trainer
Sombold So 344GermanyAir launch1944 bomber box buster with a detachable explosive nose (Project only).
Fliegende PanzerfaustGermanyAir launch1944towed behind a Messerschmitt Me 109G
Zeppelin RammerGermanyAir launchFighter1944Projectdesigned to use the aerial ramming technique against Allied bombers.
Arado E.381KleinstjägerGermanyAir launch1944Projectcarried by an Arado Ar 234
Messerschmitt P.1104GermanyAir launchFighter1944Projectshort-range interceptor
Yokosuka MXY7 OhkaJapanAir launchAttack1945Kamikaze aircraft
Bell X-1USAAir launchResearch1947Prototypefirst aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight (Also conventional take off on one occasion)
Douglas D-588-II SkyrocketUSAAir launch1953supersonic research aircraft
Bell X-2USAAir launchResearch1955PrototypeSupersonic
North American X-15USAAir launchResearch1959PrototypeHypersonic. later variants capable of sub-orbital space flight.
Martin Marietta X-24AUSAAir launchResearch1969PrototypeLifting body
Martin Marietta X-24BUSAAir launchResearch1973PrototypeLifting body
Bachem Ba 349 "Natter"GermanyVertical takeoffFighter1945ProductionPoint defence interceptor. Production examples never deployed.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Luft'46 - Focke-Wulf Volksjäger
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ XCOR X-Racer, by Nancy Atkinson, Universe Today, 2009-08-06, accessed 2010-12-11.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Sharp, D.; Luftwaffe: Secret Jets of the Third Reich, Morton's, 2015.
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