List of Rocket Aircraft - Mixed Power

Mixed Power

Aircraft that used rockets as well as another type of powerplant (usually either jet engines or a piston engine). All are manned aircraft unless stated otherwise. Does not include aircraft temporarily fitted with external booster rockets (such as JATO, RATO or RATOG). All are conventionally launched.

Year Country of origin Name of Aircraft Notes
1944 Soviet Union Sukhoi Su-7 Sukhoi Su-6 with RD-1 kHz (chemical ignition RD-1) engine and piston engine.
1945 Soviet Union Yak-3RD Modified Yakovlev Yak-3 with Glushko RD-1 kHz engine and piston engine.
1945 Soviet Union Lavochkin La-7R Glushko RD-1 kHz engine and piston engine.
1949 United Kingdom Hawker P.1072 test bed with Armstrong Siddeley Snarler rocket booster mounted in the tail
1949 United States Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor rocket and jet engines
1953 France SNCASO Trident rocket mounted in tail and turbojet engines on wingtips
1956 France SNCASE SE-212 Durandal protype interceptor
1956 United Kingdom Avro 720 mixed power cancelled before flight
1957 United Kingdom Saunders-Roe SR.53 cancelled prototype interceptor.
1957 United Kingdom Saunders-Roe SR.177 cancelled development of SR.53
1963 United States Lockheed NF-104A rocket and jet engine

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