page_title: List of experimental aircraft
section_title: Germany
hierarchical_section_title: List of experimental aircraft / Germany
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Nachbau des Opel-Sander RAK.1
context_page_description: This is a list of experimental aircraft, or aircraft used or built to conduct experiments involving aerodynamics, structural materials, propulsion systems, configuration and equipment. Prototypes, pre-production and homebuilt aircraft described as experimental but which were not used in this manner outside their own development are excluded.
context_section_description: Akaflieg Berlin B 9 1943. Prone pilot
  Akaflieg Darmstadt/Akaflieg München DM1 1944. Delta wing
  Albatros L.81 - elektron metal structure testbed
  AVA AF 1 – augumented lift
  DFS 194 1940. Tailless rocket aircraft used in development of Me 163
  DFS 346 1948. Supersonic reconnaissance aircraft used for research
  Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet TransSonische Tragflügel (TST) - transonic supercritical wing research
  Dornier Do 29 – tilt rotor STOL
  Dornier Do 31 – VTOL transport
  EWR VJ 101 - experimental tiltjet VTOL fighter
  Fieseler Fi 158 - testbed for radio control system
  Flettner airplane – Magnus effect test vehicle
  Flettner Fl 185 - gyrodyne
  Focke-Wulf F 19 – multi-engined canard
  Focke-Wulf Fw 61 – first practical helicopter
  Fokker V.1 - structures and aerodynamics testbed
  Göppingen Gö 8 - development aircraft for Do 214
  Göppingen Gö 9 – pusher (behind tail) aerodynamic testbed for Dornier Do 335 development
  Gotha G.VI - asymmetric flying surfaces
  Gotha Go 147 – tailless research aircraft
  Heinkel He 119 – high-performance research aircraft
  Heinkel He 176 – rocket research aircraft
  Heinkel He 178 – jet engine research aircraft
  Horten H.III - flying wing
  Horten H.IV - flying wing
  Horten Ho VI - flying wing
  Junkers J 1 – pioneering all-metal cantilever monoplane (1915)
  Junkers EF 61 – pressurization
  Junkers Ju 49 – high-altitude test aircraft
  Lippisch Delta IV – delta wing
  Lippisch Ente – rocket-powered canard
  Lippisch P.13a - delta wing and use of coal
  Messerschmitt Me P.1101 - variable geometry (swing-wing) jet
  Opel RAK.1 – rocket propulsion
  RFB X-113 – wing in ground effect vehicle
  RFB X-114 – wing in ground effect vehicle
  Sack AS-6 – disk wing
  Schmeidler SN.2 - wing flaps
  VFW VAK 191B – VTOL fighter
  Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) V1 - all-metal stressed skin construction
caption: Opel RAK.1 rocket engine research aircraft
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