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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cirrus. The H.VI was allocated the RLM ID number 8-253 and by inference Horten Ho 253 though this was little used in practice. Data from Sailplanes 1920-1945...
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The Horten H.II Habicht (Hawk) was a German flying wing glider built in Germany in 1935. Four, including one flown mostly as a motorglider, were built...
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Horten H.V was a delta-winged, tail-less, twin-engined motor-glider designed and built in the late 1930s and early 1940s by Walter and Reimar Horten in...
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List of aircraft (Hf–Hz) (section Horten)
Trouble Horten H.I Horten H.Ib Horten H.II Horten H.III Horten H.IV Horten H.V Horten H.VI Horten H.VII Horten H.VIII Horten H.IX Horten H.X Horten H.XI...
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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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Arado Ar 234 reconnaissance/bomber, along with prototypes, including the Horten Ho 229. Variants and copies of the engine were produced in Eastern Europe...
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advantages of the tailless configuration include low parasitic drag as on the Horten H.IV soaring glider and good stealth characteristics as on the Northrop...
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The Horten H.XIII was an experimental flying wing aircraft designed by the Horten brothers during World War II. The H.XIIIa was an unpowered glider with...
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List of experimental aircraft (section X-planes)
Heinkel He 178 – Jet engine research aircraft Horten H.III – Flying wing Horten H.IV – Flying wing Horten Ho VI – Flying wing Junkers J 1 – Pioneering all-metal...
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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...
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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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I.Ae. 34 Clen Antú (redirect from Horten XV)
The I.Ae. 34 Clen Antú, sometimes known as the Horten XVa after its designer Reimar Horten, was a two-seat tailless glider built in Argentina. Two single-seat...
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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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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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The Horten H.VIII was a flying wing research aircraft designed by Reimar Horten during World War II and only partly built by the end of the war. The H...
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List of gliders (H) (section Horten)
Olympia Horten XVa Horten XVb Horten XVc Horten XVI Colibri Horten Ho 33A Horten Ho 33B Horten Parabel Horten Cóndor Andino – Reimar Horten aka I.A....
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I.Ae. 41 Urubú (redirect from Horten XVc (I.Ae. 41 Urubu))
Aerotécnico (I.Ae.), in Cordoba. The design team was led by Professor Reimar Horten, who was a pioneer in the design of tailless flying wing planes. His project...
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director of the TV special Hitler's Stealth Fighter (2009), about the Horten Ho 229 for National Geographic Maker of the 2013 feature documentary film...
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Lippisch P.11, designed to compete with the Horten Ho-IX; the latter went on to become the Horten (Gotha) Ho-(Go-)229. Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet Lippisch...
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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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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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Platform Hiller XH-44 Hiller XHOE-1 Hornet Hiller YROE Horten Ho 229 Horten H.IIIF Horten H.IIIH Horten VI V2 Huff-Daland Duster Kaman K-225 Kawanishi N1K2-Ja...
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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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