6008 x 4016 px | 50,9 x 34 cm | 20 x 13,4 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
10 septembre 2016
Lieu:
East Fortune, Scotland,
Informations supplémentaires:
The National Museum of Flight is Scotland's national aviation museum at East Fortune Airfield, in East Lothian. The museum is housed in the original wartime buildings of RAF East Fortune which is one of the best preserved wartime airfields in the UK. As a result of this the entire site is a scheduled ancient monument with no permanent structures added by the museum. One of the exhibits Me 163B-1a, Werknummer 191659 "Yellow 15", was captured at Husum in 1945 The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, designed by Alexander Lippisch, was a German rocket-powered fighter aircraft. It is the only rocket-powered fighter aircraft ever to have been operational. Its design was revolutionary, and had performance unrivaled at the time. German test pilot Heini Dittmar in early July 1944 reached 1, 130 km/h (700 mph), an unofficial flight airspeed record unmatched by turbojet-powered aircraft for almost a decade. Over 300 aircraft were built, but the Komet proved ineffective in its dedicated role as an interceptor aircraft and was responsible for the destruction of only about nine Allied aircraft. (Sixteen air victories for 10 losses, according to other sources).
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