Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet

Name: Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet
SKU: BR-9434
Availability: InStock

Current price is: $149.00. Original price was: $165.00.

Note: We can build this up to a large scale you want!

Mahogany Desk stand in chrome steel pedestal with adjustable height included.

Production approximately 3-4 weeks from date of order confirmation

The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet was a German rocket-powered interceptor aircraft. Designed by Alexander Lippisch, it is the only rocket-powered fighter aircraft ever to have been operational and the first piloted aircraft of any type to exceed 1000 km/h (621 mph) in level flight. Its performance and aspects of its design were unprecedented. 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 Komets were built, but the aircraft proved lackluster in its dedicated role as an interceptor and destroyed between 9 and 18 Allied aircraft against 10 losses.^[3]^[4] Aside from combat losses many pilots were killed during testing and training. (info from Wikipedia).