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    The Horten H.IX, RLM designation Ho 229 (or Gotha Go 229 for extensive re-design work done by Gotha to prepare the aircraft for mass production) was a...
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    unbuilt H.XVIII represented, in many respects, a scaled-up version of the Horten Ho 229, a prototype jet fighter. The H.XVIII was one of many proposed designs...
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  • Hortens' designs. Horten H.I Horten H.II Habicht Horten H.III Horten H.IV Horten H.V Horten H.VI Horten H.VII Horten H.XIII Horten H.XVIII Horten Ho 229...
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    otherwise very short-range of aircraft powered by early jet engines. The Horten Ho 229 jet fighter prototype first flew in 1944. It combined a flying wing...
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    Ar 234 reconnaissance/bomber, along with prototypes, including the Horten Ho 229. Variants and copies of the engine were produced in Eastern Europe and...
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    built. Gotha had received the production contract for the single-seat Horten Ho 229 flying-wing fighter in June 1944, but numerous design changes were needed...
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  • Blended wing body Lifting body Northrop Flying Wings: Planes of Fame, Edward Maloney, ISBN 9780915464005 Development History of Horten Flying Wing Aircraft...
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    interceptor. Horten Ho 229 – a turbojet flying wing jet fighter/bomber. Horten H.XVIII – a planned flying wing jet bomber based on the Horten Ho 229. Junkers...
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    the Horten Ho 229 flying wing fighter-bomber was developed in Nazi Germany during the last years of World War II. In 1983, its designer Reimar Horten claimed...
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    the new RLM designation 8-254, so it was known by inference as Horten Ho 226 or Horten Ho 254, though these designations were little used in practice. In...
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  • production artist Ron Cobb created the BV-38 flying wing based on the Horten Ho 229, the Northrop N-1M and the Vought V-173. Constructed by the British...
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  • bomber Henschel Projekt P. Transporter Horten Ho 229 Experimental flying wing jet fighter-bomber prototype Horten H.XVIII proposed long-range flying wing...
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    night fighters, such as the Horten Ho 229, a Schräge Musik system was incorporated from the start. The experimental Horten Ho 229 flying wing series was proposed...
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    never entered service, the Horten Ho 229. This was an exotic jet-powered, flying wing fighter aircraft designed by the Horten brothers, who lacked the facilities...
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    German Horten Ho 229 prototype flying wing jet fighter/bomber The only surviving German Arado Ar 234 Blitz jet bomber The only surviving German Horten H.VI...
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    ISBN 978-1-84415-456-2. Daprowski, H.P. (1991). The Horten Flying Wing in World War II - The History and Development of the Ho 229. Schiffer Military History. Vol. 47...
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    Northrop XP-79 Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Horten Ho 229 Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52 "Flying Wing Is Successful In first Tests...
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    Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Convair B-36 Horten Ho 229 Horten H.XVIII Related lists List of bomber aircraft List of flying wing...
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    requested new designs for a new generation of jet fighters such as the Horten Ho 229 and Focke Wulf Ta 183. One of these designs was the Heinkel He P.1079...
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    Northrop YB-35 Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Horten Ho 229 Horten H.XVIII Related lists List of bomber aircraft List of flying wings...
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    and A-10 booster rocket; Eugen Sänger's Silbervogel, and the Horten brothers' Horten Ho 229 turbojet-powered flying wing fighter. While this competition...
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    flying a Horten IV at RAE Farnborough in May 1947 towed by a Fieseler Storch. The H.IV was allocated the RLM ID number 8-251 and by inference Horten Ho 251...
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  • + bomber (prototype) Henschel Hs 125, fighter + trainer (prototype) Horten Ho 229, fighter-bomber (jet-powered flying-wing) Junkers Ju 248, re-designation...
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  • 865 1939 130 Henschel Hs 130 bomber prototype 13 1939 high-altitude 229 Horten Ho 229 fighter prototype 3 1944 jet flying wing, only one flown under power...
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  • The Germans also experimented with flying wing aircraft. Namely the Horten_Ho_229 using the same engines as the Me 262. Several prototypes of the aircraft...
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    The Horten H.III is a flying wing sailplane built by Walter and Reimar Horten in Germany from 1937 to 1944. The H.III series was an incremental development...
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    dedicated to those who died. The latest addition to the museum is a replica Horten Ho 229 flying wing which was put on display July 2009. This was donated to...
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    The Hortens designed the world's first jet-powered flying wing, the Horten Ho 229 Northrop In parallel with Lippisch, in the US, Jack Northrop was developing...
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    Focke-Wulf Ta 152, Focke-Wulf Ta 154, Heinkel He 162, Heinkel He 219, Horten Ho 229 and Junkers Ju 388. The MK 108 was also fitted to night fighters in...
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    The Horten H.I was a German flying wing research glider built by Walter and Reimar Horten in 1933. The first aircraft of the Horten brothers was created...
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