HE162 Salamanda a how did it even work?

[RCfalcon]

Originally Posted by Ancient Seraph

It only flew for about seven minutes, so it's not like they'd get shot down a lot before the engine quit. Then they had to glide down and land on the ski, since they dropped their landing gear on take-off. Don't think ejecting was their biggest concern .

I think you're thinking of the Me-163 Komet. The He-162 is the Salamader, that jet with the engine on top. But yeah, with the Komet, they were just hoping they werent one of the 60% that died on takeoff.