Talk:List of rocket-powered aircraft

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October 2008[edit]

I'm surprised by how many planes are missing from this list. Just for the Soviets, and they were way into rocket planes:

S.P. Korolev 1932 - 1938: RP-1 RP-2 RP-218 RP-318

Bereznyak & Isaev 1941 - 1944: RP-318 with Dushkin engines BI-1 with Duskhin and Isaev engines

NII-1 1944-1946: Florov 4302 (two models, with RD-1M and RD-2M-3 engines) I-207 Interceptor with RD-2M-3V engine RM-1 Supersonic fighter

M.R. Bisnovat 1946-47: Bisovat Model M - Isaev U-400 engine. First Soviet Aircraft to break sound barrior, and there is nothing about it anywhere on wikipedia! Bisovat 5 (is in the list)

Bisnovat "Model" was unmanned. The name of the aircraft was "Model", not really sure what that conotes, because the usual Russian word for model is "maket". DonPMitchell (talk) 04:22, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Glushko, GDL 1932- I-4 rocket-enhanced ANT-5 plane with ORM-52 engine

Where are the Soviet rocket planes?[edit]

The Soviets were the real pioneers in this field, and their planes are not on this list. Korolev's GIRD-06 series, RP-318, BI-1 and a whole list of planes powered by GLushko's RD-1. DonPMitchell (talk) 23:00, 11 August 2008 (UTC) I am very doubtful that the M was supersonic -- first Soviet manned supersonic flight in 1948 or 1949 in a Lavochkin. The list is a mess -- leaves out Soviet supersonic mixed power interceptors, dates don't make sense, etc. I have fixed a few things. Bernard Biales 12 March 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.164.137.238 (talk) 04:13, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What is a rocket plane?[edit]

Also, I am assuming by rocket plane it is mean a manned vehicle. If we include cruise missiles, then this list gets very big. Some entires say they never flew under power or only flew unmanned. Maybe those entries should be removed. A clean rule would be the vehicle flew by rocket power with a human pilot, and the date of that test flight is the date by which the items are being sorted. DonPMitchell (talk) 23:44, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Citations and sources are needed[edit]

Please be sure that all additions to the List of rocket planes article are verifiable. Any new items added to the article should have inline citations for each claim made. As a courtesy to editors who may have added claims previously, before Wikipedia citation policy is what it is today, many of the existing unsourced claims have been tagged {{citation needed}} to allow some time for sources to be added. Cheers. N2e (talk) 14:12, 14 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Buran marked as "not flown"?[edit]

Well, that's funny... as it did fly once in full-auto mode. Corrected accordingly. Funny thing is, it's all there in the Buran article. And I'd agree with the above, the list is definitely incomplete, not only Soviet but German and US projects are missing (such as Dynasoar). DesmanaMoschata (talk) 04:03, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment[edit]

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The first manned US rocket aircraft test flight occurred between the first and second appearence of sightings of the ME 163B during WWII. In July 5, 1944 the John Northrup designed MX-324. It was a deltawing platform with the pilot laying in the prone position. The pilot was Harry Crosby. This aircraft was a subscale of the larger XP-79. (See Source for more information). Source "ABOVE AND BEYOND, THE ENCYOPEDIA OF AVIATION AND SPACE SCEINCES",copyright 1968 p.2535.4.131.54.131 23:36, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Substituted at 21:50, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

Class column usage[edit]

It does not seem helpful to mix engine configuration and takeoff mode in the same column. The standard usage would be for propulsion, i.e. "Rocket" or "Mixed power" throughout, but this does not seem particularly useful here. I think that the takeoff mode does seem a much better idea, and that the current "mixed power" entries are out of place. Some of the Notes already describe what type the other powerplant is. Does anybody have any objections if I move all the mixed power information into the Notes column? — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 19:15, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]