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    The Bachem Ba 349 Natter (English: Colubrid, grass-snake) was a World War II German point-defence rocket-powered interceptor, which was to be used in...
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  • Bachem may refer to: the Bachem Ba 349 Natter, a German rocket-powered interceptor prototype Bachem Holding, a Swiss company Erich Bachem, German engineer...
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    rocket plane Bachem Ba 349 Natter. The only manned test flight on 1 March 1945 ended with pilot Lothar Sieber being killed. In 1947/48 Erich Bachem left Germany...
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  • areas of Germany. Several launchpads were also constructed for the Bachem Ba 349 (also known as Natter), developed in 1944/45. From Test stand VII, the...
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  • 1 March 1945 and crashed, killing its pilot, Lothar Sieber, in the Bachem Ba 349 "Natter" rocket. 1910 XIV Armeekorps of the German Imperial Army establishes...
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    bipropellant rocket engine that powered the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet and Bachem Ba 349 aircraft. It was produced by Hellmuth Walter Kommanditgesellschaft (HWK)...
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    a role. During the second world war, Germany experimented with the Bachem Ba 349, but due to them losing the war, development was cut short. According...
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    vertical take-off manned rocket flight, in a Bachem Ba 349 "Natter". Before he became a test pilot for Bachem, he piloted an Arado Ar 232 in highly risky...
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    contributions were rocket motors for the Messerschmitt Me 163: 174  and Bachem Ba 349 interceptor aircraft, so-called Starthilfe jettisonable rocket propulsion...
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    Schmidding SG 34 (category Bachem aircraft)
    motor. Four SG 34s were used on the Bachem Ba 349 Natter to provide extra thrust for launching. The Bachem Ba 349 Natter was originally designed with...
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  • interceptor aircraft, notably the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet and the Bachem Ba 349 Natter. HWM designed the steam catapult that launched the V-1 flying...
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  • 16/43-19 Arado TEW 16/43-23 (Bachem-Werke GmbH) Bachem Ba 349 Natter Ba BP 20 - (Manned Flak Rocket) First versions of Ba 349, some unable to take off vertically...
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  • into the Fi 166 in 1941. The von Braun Interceptor also inspired the Bachem Ba 349 Natter. Emergency Fighter Program Emergency fighter List of German aircraft...
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  • captured from Czechoslovakia and used as trainer and night fighter Bachem Ba 349 Natter ('Snake'), rocket interceptor Bloch MB.155 captured from France...
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    Luftwaffe that only took off vertically, landing in other ways. The Bachem Ba 349 Natter landed under a parachute after having taken off vertically. Other...
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    Fighter Program, the Germans developed even odder designs, such as the Bachem Ba 349 Natter, which launched vertically and thus eliminated the need for an...
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  • Explorer Aichi B7A2 Ryusei Antonov An-2 Applebay Zuni II Arado Ar 196 A-5 Bachem Ba 349 B-1 Natter Bell Model 65 ATV (Air Test Vehicle) Bell P-39Q Airacobra...
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    see service, a quartet mounted per airframe for use with the radical Bachem Ba 349 VTO rocket interceptor design in 1945, for its vertical launch needs...
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  • conventional airplane.[citation needed] Bachem Ba 349 Natter, a similar point-defense interceptor designed by Erich Bachem which achieved test flights (1945)...
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    German Horten H.VI flying wing aircraft One of three surviving German Bachem Ba 349 Natter rocket-powered interceptors The only surviving Japanese Nakajima...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Natter may refer to: Natter (surname) Bachem Ba 349, a German manned rocket interceptor from World War II Natter (social...
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    Komet also inspired later rocket planes such as the vertical-launch Bachem Ba 349 Natter. Ultimately, the point defense role that the Me 163 played would...
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    Walter 509 series of rocket motors, but besides the Me 163, only the Bachem Ba 349 Natter vertical launch expendable fighter was ever flight-tested with...
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    about an Ohka pilot Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Bachem Ba 349 Natter Fieseler Fi 103R Reichenberg (piloted V-1 flying bomb) Messerschmitt...
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  • chaff, flares, barrage balloons—are not considered point defence. Bachem Ba 349 Natter – vertical take-off rocket powered crewed interceptor (prototypes...
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    either for assisting horizontal take-off (RATO), vertical take-off (Bachem Ba 349 "Natter") or for powering them (Me 163, see list of World War II guided...
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  • Shinryū II had a similar role to the Mitsubishi J8M Shūsui and the German Bachem Ba 349 Natter, which the Japanese were aware of and obtained data on (although...
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    Wernher von Braun (category Articles with VcBA identifiers)
    Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet: 151  and never produced. (The differing Bachem Ba 349 was produced during the 1944 Emergency Fighter Program.) 'Survey' of...
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    Amerikabomber. Arado E.560 – a series of tactical bomber projects. Bachem Ba 349 "Natter" (Adder) – a rocket-powered vertical take-off interceptor. Blohm...
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    lifting tailplane can be made stable. An example is provided by the Bachem Ba 349 Natter VTOL rocket-powered interceptor, which had a lifting tail and...
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