No-one was in any doubt as to the Me 163’s exceptionally dangerous characteristics...
It was probably at Wisley, one of the airfields where Me 163B-1a VF241 was tested by the RAE, that this image was taken.
KEY COLLECTION
Of the Komet, Adolf Galland wrote, “To fly this aircraft was a gamble between life and death. Some 30 men had volunteered to flight-test this novel machine and only they and the genial designers Lippisch, Walter and Messerschmitt and a few others knew its secrets.”
