what is it?
The DFS 194 was a rocket-powered aircraft designed by Alexander Lippisch at the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (DFS - "German Institute for Sailplane Flight").
fun facts
- First flew 86 years ago, in 1940.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1940
- number built
- —
- role
- experimental
- origin
- German Reich
- makers
- Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug
- engines
- —
- top speed
- —
- range
- —
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q664442, Wikipedia: DFS 194 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.