| DFS 346 | |
|---|---|
 Aircraft 346-P | |
| General information | |
| Type | Research aircraft |
| Manufacturer | Siebel OKB-2 |
| Designer | Felix Kracht |
| Status | Project cancelled |
| Primary user | Soviet Air Force |
| Number built | 4[1] |
| History | |
| First flight | 346-P in 1948 as glider 346-3 in 13.08 1951 with engine[2] |
| Retired | 14 September 1951 |
| Variants | Bisnovat 5 |
The DFS 346 (Samolyot 346) was a German rocket-powered swept-wing aircraft which began development during World War II in Germany. It was designed by Felix Kracht at the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (DFS), the "German Institute for Sailplane Flight". A prototype was constructed but did not reach completion before the end of the war. It was taken to the Soviet Union where it was completed, tested and flown (with indifferent success).[3]
- ^ Aircraft construction history in USSR 1951-1965, 2002
- ^ Sultanov, I: "German Experimental Design Bureaus in USSR"
- ^ Hallion, Richard, P. "The NACA, NASA, and the Supersonic-Hypersonic Frontier" (PDF). NASA. NASA Technical Reports Server. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
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