Name: The Komet and the Natter
Uploaded: 2009-01-01
Duration: 28 min 15 s
Description: As war rages across Europe, the Nazis seek to further their exploration of rocket power and create new sophisticated aircraft that will give them dominance of the skies. Alexander Lippisch moves from designing gliders to the first rocket-powered production aircraft: The Komet.

As war rages across Europe, the Nazis seek to further their exploration of rocket power and create new sophisticated aircraft that will give them dominance of the skies. Alexander Lippisch moves from designing gliders to the first rocket-powered production aircraft: The Komet.

Explore how Alexander Lippisch’s Komet and Erich Bachem’s Natter pushed Nazi Germany’s aircraft design into radical new territory during World War II. From tailless rocket propulsion to vertical takeoff concepts, this film reveals the engineering ambition, danger, and wartime urgency behind machines built to change the skies. Sign up to see how innovation and desperation collided.

Rocket interceptors and desperate wartime designs race toward the edge of flight.

The Komet and the Natter

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