Rocket and Jet Aircraft
The Museums Current Collection
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GermanyExperimental and test jet aircraft
Operational jet aircraft
Blohm & Voss BMW
Dornier (DFS) Dornier / Heinkel Fiesler
Junkers Lippisch Messerchmitt
Skoda/Kauba |
ItalyExperimental and test jet aircraft
Jet aircraft projects
Caproni-Campin
Reggiane |
JapanOperational rocket aircraft
Experimental and test jet aircraft
Cancelled before built These were either cancelled projects or incomplete at end of war
Kyushu Yokosuka Nakajima |
United kingdomExperimental and test jet aircraft
Operational jet aircraft
Armstrong Whitworth
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United StatesExperimental and test
XP 59 "Airacomet" Boeing
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USSRExperimental jet aircraft
Operational jet aircraft
Bereznyak/Isaiev Borovkov/Florov
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Rocket Aircraft
- Arado E.381 Kleinstjäger Air launch Fighter 1944Project0 Carried by an Arado Ar 234
- Bachem Ba 349 "Natter" Germany VTOL Fighter 1945 Production Point defence interceptor. Never saw action.
- 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).
- Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 USSR CTOL Fighter 1942
- 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.
- Focke-Wulf Volksjäger Germany CTOL Fighter 1944 Project Three rocket-powered variants under construction at the end of hostilities.
- Heinkel He 112R Germany Experimental 1937 Operational Rocket and piston engines.
- Heinkel He 176 Germany CTOL Research 1939 Prototype
- He P.1077 Julia Germany CTOL Fighter 1944 Project
- Ju EF.127 WalliGermanyCTOLFighter1944Project
- 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
- Messerschmitt Me 163 Germany CTOL Fighter 1941 ProductionTailless.
- Messerschmitt Me 263 Germany CTOL Fighter 1944 also known as Ju 248, development of Me 163.
- Messerschmitt P.1104 GermanyAir launch Fighter1944 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 Fighter1944 Prototype Flying wing. Converted to jet power for first and only flight.
- Opel RAK.1 Germany CTOL Research 1929 Operational First rocket-powered aircraft.
- Rikugun Ki-202 Japan CTOL Fighter 1945 Improved J8M/Ki-200 with the elongated fuselage.
- 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 towed behind a Messerschmitt Me 109G
- Zeppelin Rammer Germany Air launch Fighter 1944 Project designed to use the aerial ramming technique against Allied bombers