Horten Ho229 - a brief outline of the story. Part 1. Compiled by Cesar Winklemann

A Ho IX under construction. This document depicts the wood
construction of this flying wing. (The clamps are aligned on the left).
The jet engines are fictitious.

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Almost unknown today, all wing twin-jet Go 229 was probably the most startling and unconventional warplane built during the WWII. It stemmed from the belief of the brothers Walter and Reimar Horten that a flying wing was the most efficient form of the heavier-than-air flying machines.They set out to prove this with a series of gliders, beginning with the Horten O in 1931. From 1936 Hortens brothers were officers in the Luftwaffe, but continued their work, wich in 1942 lead to studies for a flying-wing jet fighter.