IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. One of the most remarkable of the ...

The historic display of a German Messerschmitt Me-262 fighter in the United Kingdom Horten Ho-229, the avant-garde German ...

While Hitler's fanciful ideas about how wars should be fought cost him the war and resulted in millions of unnecessary lives lost, millions of marks were spent on pushing the envelope of aeronautical ...

Me 163 Komet – A Short History – Rarely in the history of military aviation has an aircraft been so advanced that its rivals didn’t know how to counter it. Yet, such was the case with the ...

It takes more than a few mental gymnastics to appreciate the scale of the achievement of the Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet rocket interceptor. Then again, seeing the less-than-stellar-looking example at ...

When you are hunting big game, you need a big gun. The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet carried two Mk 108 autocannons. Each weapon fired 650 rounds a minute and each explosive round was over one inch in ...

Key point: Like many other over-hyped German wonder weapons, the Komet was revolutionary but not practical. Overengineered and full of problems, it was too fast and only had 7 minutes worth of fuel.

This footage shows ground testing for a German Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet during WW2. It was the only operational rocket-powered fighter plane ever built. The unprecedented design produced speed and ...

How much glass does it take to stop a speeding .50-caliber bullet? Judging from the Messerschmitt Me 163 B Komet, I’d say a little more than three inches — eighty millimeters to be exact. The Komet ...