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 ...

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 inspired later designs like Northrop’s experimental bombers and the B-2 Spirit, and even found its way into Hollywood, influencing films like Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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 ...

The Luftwaffe’s Flying Wing The Horten Ho 229 is on the short list for restoration at the Air and Space Museum.

The Ho 229's design was incredibly advanced for its time (Credit: Malyszkz/Wikipedia/) The ‘flying wing’ design isn’t an everyday sight in our skies because it’s incredibly hard to make work.

Object Details Author Dabrowski, H. P Notes "Translated from the German by David Johnston." Translation of: Nurflügel, Die Ho 229--Vorläufer der heutigen B2. Date 1991 C1991 Call number TL686.H82 ...

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 ...

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 ...