Abstract: This paper is a report on the Radar Cross Section (RCS) design characteristics of the German World War II aircraft, the Horten 229 v3. The aircraft was designed by the Horten …
The subject of this column is a quite remarkable German aircraft from WW2: the Horten Ho-229. This was a single-seat fighter/bomber aircraft with a steel and laminated plywood air-frame, …
It includes various topics relating to the Hortens, and comprises sixty original tapes donated by Myhra, as well as two copies made by NASM, one consisting of sixty-one master reel-to-reels, …
The low span efficiency of the Horten IV propounded that the induced drag increment might be very high because of the intense twist and control deflection. Therefore, a detailed calculation …
It was the top-secret, highly experimental Horten project. Even if one of the planes had been fully assembled, it’s doubtful many of the American soldiers who saw it would have known what to …
The aircraft made its first flight in May 1943 with Heinz Scheidhauer and Walter Horten on board. The aircraft had originally been conceived as a flying test-bed for the Argus-
A downloadable PDF version of the guide is available on the Yahoo group (see references at the end of this document). The photos are clearer (and in color!) when viewed on a computer. The …