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	Horten Ho 229 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Horten Ho 229 (often erroneously called Gotha Go 229 due to the identity of the chosen manufacturer of the aircraft) was a late-World War II flying wing fighter aircraft, designed by the Horten brothers and built by Gothaer Waggonfabrik.
		The Hortens felt that the low-drag all-wing design could meet all of the goals – by reducing the drag, cruise power could be lowered to the point where the range requirement could be met.
		Horten also noticed in wind-tunnel testing that in the beginnings of a stall, most airfoil cross-sections began losing lift on their front and rear edges first.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horten_Ho_229 (1212 words)

	Horten brothers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first Horten glider flew in 1933, when both brothers were still in their teens.
		The Hortens' glider designs were extremely simple and aerodynamic, generally consisting of a huge, tailless albatross-wing with a tiny coccoon of a fuselage, in which the pilot lay prone.
		The Hortens had made the natural leap to powered flight in 1937, with a twin-engined pusher-prop airplane (an earlier glider had a mule engine).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horten_brothers (493 words)

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	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/brothers.html (1682 words)

	Station Information - Horten brothers
		This back-to-the-basics education, and an admiration of German avant-aircraft designer Alexander Lippisch, led the Hortens away from the dominant design trends of the 1920s and '30s, and toward experimenting with alternative airframes -- building models and then filling their parents' house with full-sized wooden sailplanes.
		Among other advanced Horten designs of the 1940s was the supersonic delta-wing HO-X, designed as a hybrid turbojet/rocket fighter with a top speed of Mach 1.4, but tested only in glider form (as the HO-XIII), and later with a piston engine.
		As the war ended, the Horten brothers emigrated to Argentina, where they continued designing and building airplanes.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/h/ho/horten_brothers.html (385 words)

	ufo - UFOS at close sight: the german Horten planes
		HORTEN Ho I: At this time, Reimar was still in school and Walter in the military; all the construction and testing was done on their spare time and own funding.
		HORTEN Ho X: The Ho X was a high speed arrow shaped flying wing inspired by Busemann's statement in 1936 of the beneficial effect of sweepback on delay of the shock stall.
		The Horten Ho XI was an acrobatic glider of 8 meters span.
	ufologie.net /aircraft/horten.htm (5661 words)

	Horten brothers -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		But the great advantage of the Horten designs was the extremely low (Click link for more info and facts about parasitic drag) parasitic drag of their airframes.
		By 1939, with (German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945)) Adolf Hitler in power and the Treaty of Versailles no longer in effect, Walter and Reimar had entered the (The German airforce) Luftwaffe as pilots.
		As the war ended, the Horten brothers emigrated to (A republic in southern South America; second largest country in South America) Argentina, where they continued designing and building airplanes.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ho/horten_brothers.htm (282 words)

	Farnborough Hants - Horten Aircraft History
		From the first the Horten Brothers have been of the opinion that the flying wing is the most efficient form of aircraft, and all their efforts have been directed towards achieving this ideal.
		After the cessation of hostilities, the Horten Brothers were interrogated in England (May 1945) and in the first two weeks of June 1945 the writer visited Germany, with the Hortens, and investigated their center of activity.
		From the first the Horten brothers have been of the opinion that a pure flying wing is the most efficient form of aircraft and all their efforts have been directed towards achieving this ideal.
	www.twitt.org /Farnborough.html (2843 words)

	Horten Ho 229 V3
		Horten was the technical officer for Jadgeschwader (fighter squadron) 26 stationed in France.
		Horten mounted elevons (control surfaces that combined the actions of elevators and ailerons) to the trailing edge and spoilers at the wingtips for controlling pitch and roll, and he installed drag rudders next to the spoilers to help control the wing about the yaw axis.
		The Horten brothers believed that a military pilot with experience flying heavy multi-engine aircraft was required to safely fly the jet wing and Scheidhauer lacked these skills so Walter brought in veteran Luftwaffe pilot Lt. Erwin Ziller.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/horton_229.htm (2715 words)

	1947 Schulgen Memo
		The German High Command indicated a definite interest in the Horten type of flying wing and were about to embark on a rigorous campaign to develop such aircraft toward the end of the war.
		A Horten design, known as the IX, which was designated as the Go-8-229 and the Go-P-60 (night fighter) was to be manufactured by the Gotha Plant.
		All should be contacted and interrogated regarding any contemplated plans or perspective thinking of the Horten brothers, and any interest shown by the Russians to develop their aircraft.
	www.nicap.org /schulgen.htm (1358 words)

	Horten IV, Flying wing
		It is most remarkable that the fourth of their models, the Horten IV, was already better, or at least equivalent in performance to those of conventional design, which were developed with all the experience gained through dozens of previous models.
		In the case of the Horten IV, using the slope of the total drag polar, the span efficiency appears to be 53 per cent, however, the actual span efficiency, using the induced drag increment, is 76 per cent.
		Rudolf Opitz, who saved the Horten IV from deterioration, rebuilt and flew it with remarkable success in the U.S. National Contest of 1951, as well as In the early flight tests at Mississippi State University then introduced the author to flying the plane and gave over much of his vast experience on flying wings.
	www.acsol.net /~nmasters/H-IV-report.html (4147 words)

	More information about the WWII Horten Ho 229 Horten Flying Wing by Fiddlers Green
		When the first Jumo 004B units were delivered, the Horten brothers were astonished to learn that their diameter turned out to be nearly 8 inches (20 cm) greater than anticipated.
		As one of the Horten brothers later recalled, this was the first flight of one of their designs under jet power.
		Horten, with his elder brother, Reimar, had been working for about ten years on the development of all-wing aircraft, building several successful gliders to test his theories.
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/Horten-Ho229/info/info.htm (3438 words)

	proned pilots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Horten Ho II had a large transparent leading edge part, which was wider than the basic cockpit.
		Maybe the difference with the Hortens can be found in the fact that Horten did use semi-proned positions and that the pilot of the BV 40 was fully proned.
		His Horten H X was a flying wing of classic Horten layout but here Reimar only placed elevons instead of his rather complex control areas like he used on the Horten H IV.
	www.nurflugel.com /Nurflugel/n_o_d/weird_07.htm (6868 words)

	Flying Wings : An Anthology : Reimar and Walter Horten
		It stemmed from the belief of the brothers Walter and Reimar Horten that a flying wing was the most efficient form of heavier than-air flying machine.
		From 1936 the brothers were officers in the Luftwaffe but continued their work which led in 1942 to studies for a flying wing jet fighter.
		Reimar and Walter Horten tested their first piloted nurflugel (only-wing) sailplane in 1933, while they were still in their teens.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/horten.html (1420 words)

	Sharkit 1/72 Horten Flying Wing Bomber
		The Horten brothers, Reimar and Walter, designed a number of tail-less aircraft and sailplanes before the beginning of the Second World War.
		But in the brother's minds many more advanced ideas were being formulated, such as a bomber capable of striking the east coast of the United States from Germany.
		As with all Horten aircraft, the canopy was a smooth continuation of the wing surface, no large, bulbous greenhouse to disrupt the clean lines.
	www.internetmodeler.com /2000/december/aviation/horten.htm (917 words)

	Horten Gliders
		Horten H IIL, H IIIf, H IIIh, H VI V2 In Germany more than fifty years ago, Reimar and Walter Horten built a series of swept-wing sailplanes without conventional fuselages or tails.
		The Horten II L, Werk-Nummer (manufacturer's construction number, hereafter WNr.) 6, is the third Horten II built but the first of three 'L' subtypes constructed at Lippstadt, Germany, in 1937.
		They hoped to smoothly transition pilots to higher performance Horten aircraft equipped with semi-prone cockpits such as the H IV and H VI sailplanes, and the jet-propelled Horten X. The Horten IIIf and the H VI V2 are the only aircraft in NASM collections configured for prone pilotage.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/horten.htm (3226 words)

	Gotha Go-229 Flying Wing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Horten brothers were attempting to devise ways to eliminate every source of parasitic drag.
		The Horten brothers decided that the Ho IX was to undergo an extensive series of gliding tests before any attempt was to be made to install the pair of turbojets.
		Control of the redesign for production was taken away from the Horten brothers but they continued to work on the testing of their Ho IX prototype.
	www.geocities.com /nedu537/go229 (1104 words)

	Gotha GO229
		The Hortens were convinced that such a flying wing was an outstanding aircraft design, since it caused the least amount of drag.
		The Hortens also believed that a wooden wing hit by a cannon shell would sustain less damage than a metal one.
		The Hortens had also been contracted to develop a six-engine jet bomber with a range of 6500 Km, and were working on a supersonic flying wing, and even a large passenger-carrying version.
	www.tgplanes.com /planfile.asp?idplane=48 (481 words)

	Horten IV Restoration
		There were three presentations scheduled: first was Reinhold Stadler on Horten design principles; second was Edward Uden on this history of Horten airplanes based on information from the Horten archives, and; third was Peter Hanickel (who rebuilt the center section) talking about this specific aircraft, its history and the restoration process.
		She was the wife of Wolfram Horten, the third of the brothers.
		The space dedicated to the pilot is very small and during the presentation it was said the first Horten IV center section was designed around the pilot, Heinz Scheidhauer, who is not very big.
	www.twitt.org /HoIVrest.htm (1732 words)

	Dragon Horten Ho 229B Nachtjager
		The Horten brothers had developed a special revetment for their Ho IX, made of glue, soot, and charcoal powder, making this already furtive machine practically undetectable with radar.
		As World War Two wound down the Horten brothers did not wait for the arrival of the Americans, and as many of their compatriots, it is in Argentina that they would continue to develop their flying wing.
		The Horten brothers' Ho 229 was a furtive jet propelled flying wing, operational some decades before the F-117 "stealth" and B-2 bomber.
	www.swannysmodels.com /Ho229.html (2095 words)

	Flight Test
		During the 1930s and 1940s, the flying wings of the Horten brothers in Germany were among the most impressive and best-performing gliders in the world.
		In the 1950s, the brothers made some attempts to re-popularise the flying wing idea, but lack of funds for research put a stop to their activity, despite the success of designs such as the Argentinean Ho XVc 'Urubu'.
		Ailerons and elevator are combined in the 'elevons', and instead of the old Horten wingtip airbrakes, two small differential operating rudders are mounted on the wings, just in front of the elevons.
	www.todayspilot.co.uk /flight_tests/apr02/1p1.html (1430 words)

	David Myhra: The Horten Brothers and Their All-Wing Aircraft
		Reimar and Walter Horten were a step ahead, testing an all-wing sailplane in 1933, a twin-engined pusher in 1937, and a turbojet fighter-bomber in 1944.
		That he never hired the Hortens, as German engineers were recruited for the U.S. space program, may been one of history's great missed opportunities.
		David Myhra wrote his book several years ago, while both Hortens were alive, and he approached it as their friendly ghost, rather than a dispassionate historian.
	www.warbirdforum.com /myhra.htm (413 words)

	Horten IX / Gotha 229 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Early in the thirties, the brothers Reimar and Walter Horten, both active officers with the Luftwaffe and in their late teens, were designing so-called Nurflügel aircraft.
		The brothers tried to stick with the 1000³ concept (a profile ordered by the Reichsluftfahrtministerium stating that a plane was to be able to carry 1000kg of bombs at a speed of 1000km/h, crossing a distance of 1000km).
		The Horten brothers received the order to try adding the jet engines as soon as possible and 20 preproduction planes were ordered.
	users.telenet.be /bert.dujardin/Go_229.htm (1206 words)

	The Horten Brothers and Their All-Wing Aircraft by David Myhra - Schifferbooks.com
		The Horten Brothers and Their All-Wing Aircraft is the heretofore untold true story of Reimar, Wolfram, and Walter Horten's remarkable aeronautical achievements with the all-wing planform between 1933 and 1945 as told to aviation biographer David Myhra.
		Talking daily with Reimar Horten at his ranch at the foothills of the Andes Mountains in Argentina for two months, and also with Walter in Baden Baden, Germany, the two brothers described in detail their struggles in Nazi controlled Germany to perfect the all-wing planform.
		Even more astonishing, the Hortens, ridiculed in the mid-1930s for wasting their genius on silly all-wing aircraft, would be the only ones called on by Hermann Gring in December 1944 to build an all-wing "Amerika" atomic bomber and save Deutschland from certain and final destruction by the Allies through a negotiated peace settlement.
	www.schifferbooks.com /newschiffer/book_template.php?isbn=0764304410 (294 words)

	The Horten Brothers and Their All-Wing Aircraft (Schiffer Military/Aviation History) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		My favorite in this case is the picture that shows an early flying-wing glider in the Hortens' dining room, the wing extending through the door into the next room.
		Another is that the most important single fact in the book--the day the Hortens first flew an all-wing aircraft--appears to be wrong by a year.
		We won't get a better treatment of these German geniuses (well, one genius anyhow, and one brave test pilot) who created aircraft that were 50 years ahead of their time.
	www.consumerbookreviews.com /reviews3/0764304410.htm (289 words)

	September 2005 - Roswell Explained, Again by Kevin Randle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The object that carried them was a huge balloon modeled after the balloon bombs launched during the war and a wooden flying-wing-type craft designed by the German Horten brothers that was taken from the Nazis.
		The Nazis needed a long-range bomber that could reach the United States, and one or two of the Horten brothers' designs were supposed to have had the range.
		One of the Horten brothers' designs known as the Parabola certainly looks like the object Arnold sketched in the years after his sighting.
	www.fatemag.com /2005_09art2.html (2866 words)

	Supercars.net - WWII Horton HO-IX
		The brothers produced a number of experimental powered and unpowered flying wings throughout the 1930s.
		The Horten brothers planned that their Ho IX V1 was to undergo an extensive series of gliding tests before any attempt was to be made to install the pair of BMW 003 turbojets.
		Control of the adaptation of the design for production was taken away from the Horten brothers, but the brothers continued to work on the testing of their Ho IX prototype.
	www.supercars.net /garages/Panzer/55v2.html (1111 words)

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