In 1943 the all-wing and jet-propelled Horten Ho 229 promised spectacular performance and the German air force (Luftwaffe) chief, Hermann Göring, allocated half-a-million Reichsmarks to brothers ...

What You Need to Know: The Horten Ho 229 was a German prototype fighter-bomber developed during World War II, often considered the world's first stealth fighter due to its flying wing design ...

The wingless Horten Ho 229 V3 on display with other Nazi aircraft. Tobias Hutzler In the years after World War I, when aviation was all the rage in Europe and North America but the Treaty of ...

Key Points and Summary – The Horten Ho 229 was a German flying-wing jet prototype developed in the final days of World War II. National Security Journal was given a guided tour of the plane’s ...

Toward the end of World War II, the Nazis—clearly losing and in distress—proposed a host of seemingly bizarre projects in an effort to turn the tide in their favor. One of these so-called German ...

The Horten Ho 229 is often classified as a “stealth aircraft,” and the Horten brothers had indeed been correct that the flying wing concept would make it less visible to radar than a ...

The Ho 229 replica in a hangar at Northrop Grumman's facility in El Segundo, Calif. The front edge of one the few remaining Horten Ho 229 fuselages at the Smithsonian Institution's Garber ...

What You Need to Know: The Horten Ho 229 was a German prototype fighter-bomber developed during World War II, often considered the world’s first stealth fighter due to its flying wing design ...