The Me 163 would be towed aloft, using the Messerschmitt Bf-110 twin-engine aircraft. The Me 163 had no fixed landing gear, instead relying on a dolly that was soon jettisoned after takeoff and ...

The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet was part of Nazi Germany's "Wunderwaffen" or "Wonder Weapon" program, but fizzled out before it made any real impact on the war.

The first Me 163 B prototype, the Me 163 V3, was completed in April 1942, but it was not until early fall that the first Walter 109-509A motors were ready for installation. The new motor used a more ...

Killer Komets . The Me 163 had more than just record-breaking speed going for it. It also packed a hellacious punch, in the form of two Rheinmetall-Borsig MK 108 30mm cannons. These fearsome guns ...

Nazi Germany pursued numerous ambitious and impractical weapon programs over the course of World War II. One of the few that saw action was the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, the only rocket-powered ...

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 Komet was probably the fastest plane in the skies back then, even if it was neither safe nor fuel efficient, and Nazis also planned to bomb New York City using a plane ...

The first Me 163 B prototype, the Me 163 V3, was completed in April 1942, but it was not until early fall that the first Walter 109-509A motors were ready for installation. The new motor used a more ...