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| Arado E.381 Kleinstjäger || Germany || Air launch || Fighter || 1944 || Project || 0 || Carried by an Arado Ar 234.
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| 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.
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| Avro 720 || UK || CTOL || || 1956 || Project || 0 || Mixed power.
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| Avro Z-101 || UK || Air launch || Research || 1961 || Project || 0 || Manned variant of the Blue Steel missile.
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| 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.).
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| Bell X-1 || USA || Air launch || Research || 1947 || Prototype || 7 || First aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight.
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| Bell X-2 || USA || Air launch || Research || 1955 || Prototype || 2 || Supersonic.
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| Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 || USSR || CTOL || Fighter || 1942 || || 9 ||
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| Bisnovat 5 || USSR || CTOL || || 1948 || Project || || Based on captured DFS 346. Never flew under power.
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| Cattaneo Magni RR || Italy || CTOL || Research || 1931 || Prototype || ||
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| Cheranovsky RP-1 || USSR|| CTOL || Research || 1932 || Prototype || || Test in 1933 ended in engine failure.
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| DFS 194 || Germany || CTOL || Experimental || 1940 || Operational || 1 || Tailless, direct predecessor of Me 163 series.
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| Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket || USA || Air launch || Research || 1953 || Operational || 3 || Supersonic.
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| EZ-Rocket || USA || CTOL || Experimental || 2001 || Prototype || 1 || Rocket-powered variant of Rutan Long-EZ.
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| Fairey 124T Design A || UK || CTOL || || 1952 || Project || 0 || Delta wing rocket fighter powered by AW “Screamer” motor plus 6x booster rockets wrapped around the rear lower fuselage for take-off assistance.
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| Focke-Wulf Volksjäger || Germany || CTOL || Fighter || 1944 || Project || 0 || Three rocket-powered variants under construction at the end of hostilities.
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| Hawker P.1072 || UK || CTOL || || 1949 || Prototype || 1 || Mixed power.
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| Heinkel He 112R || Germany || CTOL || Experimental || 1937 || Operational || 1 || Rocket and piston engines.
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| Heinkel He 176 || Germany || CTOL || Research || 1939 || Prototype || 1 || Pioneering liquid-fueled rocket propulsion aircraft.
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| He P.1077 Julia || Germany || CTOL || Fighter || 1944 || Project || 0 ||
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| Horten Rocket Wing || Germany || CTOL || Concept || 1945 || Project || 0 || Prone pilot flying wing fighter.
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| Ju EF.127 Walli || Germany || CTOL || Fighter || 1944 || Project || 0 ||
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| Korolyov RP-318 || USSR || CTOL || Research || 1940 || || 1 ||
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| Lavochkin La-7R || USSR || CTOL || || 1945 || || 1 || Rocket and piston engines.
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| Lippisch Ente || Germany || CTOL || Research || 1928 || Prototype Opel-RAK program || 1 || First rocket-powered aircraft, part of Opel-RAK program.
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| Lockheed NF-104A || USA || CTOL || Trainer || 1963 || || 3 || Rocket and jet engines.
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| Martin Marietta X-24A || USA || Air launch || Research || 1969 || Prototype || 1 || Lifting body.
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| Martin Marietta X-24B || USA || Air launch || Research || 1973 || Prototype || 1 || Lifting body.
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| Messerschmitt Me 163 || Germany || CTOL || Fighter || 1941 ||Production || 10 A-subtype<br>~360 B-subtype || Tailless, B-version saw combat May 1944-May 1945.
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| Messerschmitt Me 263 || Germany || CTOL || Fighter || 1944 || || 3 || Also known as Ju 248, development of Me 163.
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| Messerschmitt P.1104 || Germany || Air launch || Fighter || 1944 || Project || 0 ||
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| 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.
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| Mizuno Shinryu II || Japan || CTOL || || 1945 || Project || 0 || Second aircraft developed in Japan to use a canard design after the J7W1.
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| North American X-15 || USA || Air launch || Research || 1959 || Operational || 3 || Hypersonic. Later variants capable of sub-orbital space flight.
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| Northrop XP-79 || USA || CTOL || Fighter || 1944 || Prototype || 1 || Flying wing. Converted to jet power for first and only flight.
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| Opel RAK.1 || Germany || CTOL || Research || 1929 || Operational || 1 || First purpose-built rocket-powered aircraft, Opel-RAK program.
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| Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor || USA || CTOL || || 1949 || || 2 || Rocket and jet engines.
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| Rikugun Ki-202 || Japan || CTOL || Fighter || 1945 || || 0 || Improved J8M/Ki-200 with the elongated fuselage.
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| RRL Mark-III X-racer || USA || CTOL || Racer || 2010 || || 1 ||
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| RRL Mark I X-racer || USA || CTOL || Racer || 2006 || || 1 || Customized Velocity SE, prototype for Rocket Racing League.
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| Saunders-Roe SR.53 || UK || CTOL || Fighter || 1957 || Prototype || 2 || Jet and rocket power.
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| Saunders-Roe SR.177 || UK || CTOL || Fighter || 1958 || Project || 0 || Jet and rocket power. Development of SR.53.
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| Silbervogel || Germany || CTOL || Suborbital Bomber || 1941 || Project || 0 || Designed to reach very high altitudes and glide to targets in North America.
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| SNCASO Trident || France || CTOL || Experimental || 1953 || Prototype || 8 || Jet and rocket power.
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| SNCASE SE.212 Durandal || France || CTOL || Fighter || 1956 || Prototype || 2 || Mixed power.
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| Sombold So 344 || Germany || Air launch || || 1944 || Project || 0 || bomber box buster with a detachable explosive nose.
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| Sukhoi Su-7 || USSR || CTOL || || 1944 || || 1 || Sukhoi Su-6 with rocket and piston engines.
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| von Braun Interceptor || Germany || VTOL || || 1939 || Project || 0 || Used a launch vehicle for take off from a hangar vertically similar to a V2 rocket.
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| Westland Design B || UK || CTOL || || 1952 || Project || 0 || Delanne wing rocket fighter armed with 2x Blue Jay missiles and powered with 2x DH Spectre rocket motors.
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| Yakovlev Yak-3RD || USSR || CTOL || || 1945 || Prototype || 1 || Modified Yakovlev Yak-3 with rocket and piston engines.
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| Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka || Japan || Air launch || Attack || 1945 || Production || || Kamikaze aircraft.
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| Zeppelin Fliegende Panzerfaust || Germany || Air launch || || 1944 || Project || 0 || Towed behind a Messerschmitt Bf 109G.
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| Zeppelin Rammer || Germany || Air launch || Fighter || 1944 || Project || 0 || Designed to use the aerial ramming technique against Allied bombers.
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See also
- Zero-length launch
- JATO
- CAM ship