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 remains ...

What You Need to Know: The B-21 Raider, set to replace many Cold War-era bombers by the end of the decade, continues the U.S. Air Force’s tradition of flying wing aircraft, dating back to World War II ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1943 the all-wing and ...

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, which ...

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 ...

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 up ...

Digital recreation of the Horten Ho 229 in night flight. Credit: FOX 52 / Wikimedia Commons The NASM (National Air and Space Museum) is a Smithsonian Institute museum dedicated to the history and ...

In the last months of World War Two, Nazi Germany tested an experimental fighter more spaceship than aircraft. Only now are we realising how inspired it was. BBC Future looks at the Horten Ho 229, one ...

The B-2 Spirit blew more than a few minds when it made its public debut in 1988. But America’s flying wing was not the first of such aircraft. In fact, one such plane nearly darkened the skies over ...