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Horten Ho 229: Did Nazi Germany Build the First Stealth Plane?
The concept of the "flying wing" dated back to the Second World War when Walter and Reimar Horten began work on the ...
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Restoring Germany’s Captured “Bat Wing”
The aircraft has always intrigued aviation fans. But after a 2009 National Geographic Channel special aired, touting the Horten Ho 229 V3 flying wing’s “stealthy” characteristics and ...
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Why the Experimental Nazi Aircraft Known as the Horten Never Took Off
In the years after World War I, when aviation was all the rage in Europe and North America but the Treaty of Versailles banned the production of military aircraft in Germany, glider clubs sprang ...