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Take-off was to have been from a wheeled dolly, but a landing skid is not detectable in the drawing, so that it must have concerned an expendable aircraft. The fuselage nose up to behind the cockpit functioned as a rescue capsule and was armour-protected, and hence envisaged that the ram attack with this completely unarmed aircraft was carried out by using the wings in order that the capsule could break away without damage. It can well be imagined that a ram attack, even with the wing, would have deformed the fuselage structure so that the chances of pilot survival after ramming tended to zero — but this was a characteristic of all ram-fighter projects. The aircraft was to have been of steel construction, and except for the larger wingspan of the Me 163B which had a lighter wing built of wood, the Gotha project was of roughly the same size and had aerodynamically less drag. Whereas the Me 163B was powered by a 1,700kp thrust HWK 509, the Gotha had to manage with a 1,000kp thrust Schmidding 109-533 solid—propellant rocket motor. For an air—launched machine, the steel-built Rammer must have been rather heavy and shows once again that the ramming method was not a viable solution to a problem which was better served with a turbojet—powered fighter armed with air-to—air rockets.

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