Germany - Luftwaffe (WW2) Messerschmitt Me.163 Komet 191659
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Operator: Germany - Luftwaffe (WW2) - 191659
Aircraft: Messerschmitt - Me.163 Komet
Airport: UK - Scotland - East Fortune
Category: Main database
Photo taken on 2006-5-18 by Martin Krupka [Contact]
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(28.10.2007, 20:24 CET)
Museum of Flight. Coded YELLOW 15
1 imweezel
(2 July 2008 - 20:43 CET)
Pardon my french but, Wher the hell is the intake on this aircraft? Does the little
impellor on the nose of the aircraft have anything to do with the intake? I just don't
get it! Every turbine must have an intake and I just cannot find one. somebody explain
this to me? Please?? Messershmidt Me 163-1a Komet. With those centered and small and
unforgiving COG landing gear it must have been a nightmare to land.
2 Wallace Shackleton
(2 July 2008 - 20:51 CET)
It was rocket powered, used a highly volatile mixture of Hydrogen Peroxide and alcohol. It
was known to blow up if it hard a hard landing jolted any propellant left in the rocket
motor. The wee propeller drove a generator.
3 imweezel
(2 July 2008 - 20:57 CET)
I figured it out, people. It must have been rocket-powered. Gas-generator or Staged
compression cycled. Maybe Expander cycle. Or the pumps are run by a turbine on the
exhaust. I guess the impellor is used to operate the oxidizer and fuel pumps most likely.
Unless the rocket is tank pressure operated and the impellor is used for something else
like to run a generator for electric power. Anybody know?
4 imweezel
(2 July 2008 - 20:58 CET)
Thank you Wallace. I wouldn't have even guessed.
5 imweezel
(2 July 2008 - 21:02 CET)
Wow! that sounds like a terrible risk for a fighter aircraft, doesn't it? Kind of like
flying a bomb with wings. I would never have imagined Hydrogen Peroxide and Alcohol.
Honestely, was it even worth it? Aside from the research potential did it have a notible
track record of any kind?
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