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 ...
Months passed while Horten redesigned the wing and the jet finally flew in mid-December 1944. Full of fuel and ready to fly, the Horten Ho 229 V2 weighed about nine tons and thus it resembled a medium ...