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 ...

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. Though this isn’t my first time ...

However, rare images of the facility that worked to develop the plane closely modeled on the German Messerschmitt Me 163B Komet aircraft recently emerged. Among other things, they depict the ...