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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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