World's Only Flying Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet (Kraftei)- The First Rocket-Powered Fighter Aircraft!

Cute

AS others have said put a small jet into it!!!
Insane glide angle, showing the perfection of the design

Incredible, I know they had to modify it because the original was so dangerous that it killed as many of its own pilots as it did the enemies

Bah warum rot

it was Rebocked?

A lot of pilots must have died testing this crotch rocket

Looks like all it needs, is a more high performance tow plane.

He ruined it by painting it red, at least he would have done it with the original camouflage color... apart from the fact that it does not have or use its rocket motor

jawoll

Not the same without the rocket power and dolly used fir take off

全翼機あるあるだけど、迎え角高いなぁ

Bellissimo❤️👍📍

皆さん？違和感は無いですか？？
この戦闘機に！！
水平尾翼が有りません！！
ロケットエンジンのこの機体！！
当然！！
空気取り入れ口も有りません！！
第二次世界大戦に！！
このロケットエンジンは！！
試作でしたが！！
ジェットエンジン（現在）を飛び越えて！！
今だ実用化されてない！！
ロケットエンジン戦闘機なんです！！
ジェットエンジンの最速マッハ15
ロケットエンジンなら？？
しかし…
エンジンと燃料の問題は？？
皆さんご存知！！
しかし！！
前人未到！！に！！
挑戦する！！
先人のバイタリティを！！
今の若者は！！
学ぶべき！！m(_ _)m

If they could fit the engine from the BD-5 Microjet into it then this would be one hell of a toy.

Awesome
Wouldn’t it be something with the jet from the BD-5?

秋水

Even It didn't use the landing skid, still happy and glad to see this

The original had two fuel trucks. One truck couldn't be anywhere near the other.

Too bad they felt the need to paint it all red. They should have gone with the original camo pattern.

Why is the Me 163 called a 'Kraftei' in the title? That word (literal meaning: 'power egg') was used to describe unitised assemblies of propeller engines and their accessories that could be quickly and easily be swapped in and out amongst aircraft with standardised fittings to facilitate maintenance and inventory management. I don't believe it was ever associated with the Me 163.

To think this was only 40 years after Wright brothers & Kitty Hawk - amazing. There are much safer rocket engines available today, so it would be possible to build a self powered version.

Incredible that an aircraft that is capable of flying at high Mach close to the speed of sound, also glides so beautifully with no power…. I don’t think there was or is any other aircraft that had - has such a broad flight envelope…

Ww2 planes are my favorite

Fantastic flight of the red rocketbird…❤

Jesli by dzisiaj zamontować temu bojowemu szybowcowi ,odpowiednie silniki , zamiast rakietowego , to była by perełka .

Trzeba by bylo go, na nowo zbudować z carbonu .

왜 콧수염 정치인에 독일공군이 날아다니는거야 😭😭😭😭😭

I expected some whoosh

scheiß auf die messerschmitt, da ist ne do27! ein traum von flugzeug!

La nostalgie allemande de leur glorieux passé ?

That's not an actual Me-163 but a post-war built glider replica. It's basically a Me-163S training glider with out the extra cockpit for the instructor!

Where is the rocket 🚀 ignition and flight? This is nothing more than a glider now. Cool but a glider nonetheless

Beautiful aircraft 🏅

7 to 8 minutes after takeoff to gain altitude and intercept a bomber

Conspiracy theorists would claim alien technology built this rocket plane, rockets, and jets. Maybe it was just really smart and industrious visionaries.

I was hoping for the rocket !!

Well, now you know how the Americans got to the Moon?

Could have done without the music

Nice video

I too was very disappointed to not see a balls to the wall high speed take off that the original was capable of. Even though we might be talking about a fairly short show due to limited fuel, it would have been more than worth it, if only to give due homage to the many brave men who fought and died in it, trying to protect their home and families, and the men and women who died or were injured ( Hannah Rietsch) in testing and training flights.
The idea that we do not have either a safe, proven, throttle-able rocket motor, or a turbine/s that could have been fitted to this replica, literally more than three quarters of a century later, is ridiculous. Given how small and light this replica aircraft is - less than 300kg - three or four off the shelf RC use commercially available turbines, about 24cm wide and 45cm long, weighing about 11kg each, would give this replica a thrust to weight ratio greater than 1:1 . Which means you could easily point it at the sky and watch it climb like a homesick angel. You could do that without even having to mess around with adding reheat ( US = an afterburner) to the exhaust... ( Which I admit I would happily pay to go see!)
This performance was like watching a top fuel dragster car being towed by a tow truck and then rolled along by hand on the quarter mile track for the assembled crowd. It might be "safe" by nanny state standards, but it wasn't what it was originally built to do.... On 2nd of October 1941, Heini Dittmar set the world air speed record in one of these aircraft of 1,004.5 km/h, or .81 of the speed of sound. No turbojet aircraft anywhere in the world reached this speed until 1953...

Good flight

Vaya tecnología

Someone please tell me if it is a replica.

Slippery little devil didn't wanna' stop flying!

Disappointed that the rocket motor is not working.

слов нет

I loved this video and can only imagine the guy flying it with no real airspeed manuals and CG calculations unless they had an old handbook. It was a great skilled landing ,hope it finally stopped ! Sp\ometimes when it touches a simple felease forward of the stick might help keep it down without spoilers popping up.

Quite correct, the work of Lippisch and not Messerschmidt. A brilliant design. More than ten years of Thought, Research, and Development. Hypergolic fuel choice much too dangerous.

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