Me-162 Rocket Plane take off and landing.

[APenNameAndThatA]

600 mph is 520 kt. 

[Marty_d]

Bloody dangerous to fly.  If you make it through the flight without the very volatile fuels exploding or eating their way through the fuel lines, you then have to belly land it at 290km/h!!

[rgmwa]

If you landed with propellant on board there was a good chance of a fire or explosion. 

[onetrack]

You couldn't exactly hide your position either, could you? - producing that amount of smoke! And that landing gear must end up pretty secondhand, after cartwheeling for a kilometre after takeoff!!  

[facthunter]

I'm wondering what it does when it gets to the same level as the bombers. I've seen a Neptune outmanouver a Vampire.  Nev

[Bruce Tuncks]

Did they get many bombers?  The others in the formation should have noticed.

[Bruce Tuncks]

I looked it up....  they only got 9 in total

[spenaroo]

There is a great section in eric winkle brown's auto biography about his test flight in it.
having prisoners of war as the ground crew, that had to have signed statements that they wouldn't be punished if things went wrong before they would touch it.

sounds like an awesome experience but a short range, and limited tactic - basically rocket up - dive down at a bomber, ignite again to climb. then dive once more and land

[APenNameAndThatA]

39 minutes ago, spenaroo said:

There is a great section in eric winkle brown's auto biography about his test flight in it.
having prisoners of war as the ground crew, that had to have signed statements that they wouldn't be punished if things went wrong before they would touch it.

sounds like an awesome experience but a short range, and limited tactic - basically rocket up - dive down at a bomber, ignite again to climb. then dive once more and land

The range would not the be the only short thing.