The Me 163 would be towed aloft, using the Messerschmitt Bf-110 twin-engine ... Between July and October of 1941, the Komet, fitted with Walter’s improved R II-203b rocket motor producing ...

But some of their machines did not make waves, at least as they were intended to, one such invention is the Messerschmitt Me 163 "Komet," a rocket powered interceptor plane. Look at the Komet and ...

Designed as a dedicated point defense interceptor, the Komet was the only rocket-powered ... to see service in the Second World War, the Me 163 achieved no small degree of success during the ...

Therefore, the Nazi German Luftwaffe’s Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet rocket plane arguably takes the cake as the most fratricidal fighter plane of all time. The Me 163 Komet made her maiden flight ...

However, we're quite taken with the Me-163 Komet as well. A project of the same Messerschmitt aircraft company that made the Me-109 fighters, the Komet is the ancestor of the interceptor aircraft.

It takes more than a few mental gymnastics to appreciate the scale of the achievement of the Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet rocket interceptor. Then again, seeing the less-than-stellar-looking example ...

The Messerschmitt Me 163 is the only rocket-powered fighter aircraft ever operational and ascended almost vertically at speeds of 700mph, a record for its time. Its role as an interceptor was to ...

Captain Eric Brown, 96, flew the Messerschmitt Me 163B-1a Komet more than 70 years ago on June 10, 1945. Article continues below The pilot captured it at Husum, Schleswig Holstein, Germany ...

This program explains the operation of the messerschmitt-me-163-komet, Kaiten suicide torpedo and Project Anvil's radio controlled bomber. All were military failures ...

The Me 163 would be towed aloft, using the Messerschmitt Bf-110 twin-engine ... Between July and October of 1941, the Komet, fitted with Walter's improved R II-203b rocket motor producing 1,635 ...