List of rocket-powered aircraft

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A rocket-powered aircraft or rocket plane is an aircraft that uses a rocket engine for propulsion, sometimes in addition to airbreathing jet engines. Rocket planes can achieve much higher speeds than similarly sized jet aircraft, but typically for at most a few minutes of powered operation, followed by a gliding flight. Unhindered by the need for oxygen from the atmosphere, they are suitable for very high-altitude flight. They are also capable of delivering much higher acceleration and shorter takeoffs. Many rocket aircraft may be drop launched from transport planes, as take-off from ground may leave them with insufficient time to reach high altitudes.

Type	Country	Class	Role	Date	Status	No.	Notes
Arado E.381 Kleinstjäger	Germany	Air launch	Fighter	1944	Project	0	Carried by an Arado Ar 234.
Avión Torpedo	Peru	VTOL	Rocket plane	1902	Project		Avant-garde design using liquid propellant rockets installed in the tiltwing when swiveled, capable of vertical or horizontal flight.
Avro 720	UK	CTOL		1956	Project	0	Mixed power.
Avro Z-101	UK	Air launch	Research		Project	0	Manned variant of the Blue Steel missile.
Bachem Ba 349 "Natter"	Germany	VTOL	Fighter	1945	Production	36	Point defence interceptor. Never saw action (debatable footage, seems to show a Ba 349 in combat. [1]).[2]
Bell X-1	USA	Air launch	Research	1947	Prototype	7	First aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight.
Bell X-2	USA	Air launch	Research	1955	Prototype	2	Supersonic.
Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1	USSR	CTOL	Fighter	1942		9
Bisnovat 5	USSR	CTOL		1948	Project		Based on captured DFS 346. Never flew under power.
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	1	Tailless, direct predecessor of Me 163 series.
Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket	USA	Air launch	Research	1953	Operational	3	Supersonic.
EZ-Rocket	USA	CTOL	Experimental	2001	Prototype	1	Rocket-powered variant of Rutan Long-EZ.
Focke-Wulf Volksjäger	Germany	CTOL	Fighter	1944	Project	0	Three rocket-powered variants under construction at the end of hostilities.
Hawker P.1072	UK	CTOL		1949	Prototype	1	Mixed power.
Heinkel He 112R	Germany	CTOL	Experimental	1937	Operational	1	Rocket and piston engines.
Heinkel He 176	Germany	CTOL	Research	1939	Prototype	1	Pioneering liquid-fueled rocket propulsion aircraft.
He P.1077 Julia	Germany	CTOL	Fighter	1944	Project	0
Ju EF.127 Walli	Germany	CTOL	Fighter	1944	Project	0
Korolyov RP-318	USSR	CTOL	Research	1940		1
Lavochkin La-7R	USSR	CTOL		1945		1	Rocket and piston engines.
Lippisch Ente	Germany	CTOL	Research	1928	Prototype Opel-RAK program	1	First rocket-powered aircraft, part of Opel-RAK program.
Lockheed NF-104A	USA	CTOL	Trainer	1963		3	Rocket and jet engines.
Martin Marietta X-24A	USA	Air launch	Research	1969	Prototype	1	Lifting body.
Martin Marietta X-24B	USA	Air launch	Research	1973	Prototype	1	Lifting body.
Messerschmitt Me 163	Germany	CTOL	Fighter	1941	Production	10 A-subtype ~360 B-subtype	Tailless, B-version saw combat May 1944-May 1945.
Messerschmitt Me 263	Germany	CTOL	Fighter	1944		3	Also known as Ju 248, development of Me 163.
Messerschmitt P.1104	Germany	Air launch	Fighter	1944	Project	0
Mitsubishi J8M	Japan	CTOL	Fighter	1945		7	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	0	Second aircraft developed in Japan to use a canard design after the J7W1.
North American X-15	USA	Air launch	Research	1959	Operational	3	Hypersonic. Later variants capable of sub-orbital space flight.
Northrop XP-79	USA	CTOL	Fighter	1944	Prototype	1	Flying wing. Converted to jet power for first and only flight.
Opel RAK.1	Germany	CTOL	Research	1929	Operational	1	First purpose-built rocket-powered aircraft, Opel-RAK program.
Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor	USA	CTOL		1949		2	Rocket and jet engines.
Rikugun Ki-202	Japan	CTOL	Fighter	1945		0	Improved J8M/Ki-200 with the elongated fuselage.
RRL Mark-III X-racer	USA	CTOL	Racer	2010		1	[3]
RRL Mark I X-racer	USA	CTOL	Racer	2006		1	Customized Velocity SE, prototype for Rocket Racing League.[4][5]
Saunders-Roe SR.53	UK	CTOL	Fighter	1957	Prototype	2	Jet and rocket power.
Saunders-Roe SR.177	UK	CTOL	Fighter	1958	Project	0	Jet and rocket power. Development of SR.53.
Silbervogel	Germany	CTOL	Suborbital Bomber	1941	Project	0	Designed to reach very high altitudes and glide to targets in North America.
SNCASO Trident	France	CTOL	Experimental	1953	Prototype	8	Jet and rocket power.
SNCASE SE.212 Durandal	France	CTOL	Fighter	1956	Prototype	2	Mixed power.
Sombold So 344	Germany	Air launch		1944	Project	0	bomber box buster with a detachable explosive nose.
Sukhoi Su-7	USSR	CTOL		1944		1	Sukhoi Su-6 with rocket and piston engines.
von Braun Interceptor	Germany	VTOL		1939	Project	0	Used a launch vehicle for take off from a hangar vertically similar to a V2 rocket.
Yakovlev Yak-3RD	USSR	CTOL		1945	Prototype	1	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	0	Towed behind a Messerschmitt Bf 109G.
Zeppelin Rammer	Germany	Air launch	Fighter	1944	Project	0	Designed to use the aerial ramming technique against Allied bombers.

See also

• Aviation portal
• Rocketry portal

• Zero-length launch
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