* The German Horten Ho 229 of 1945-the world's first twin jet engine pure flying wing

Most famous of these would be the Horten Ho 229 fighter.

As new experimental aircraft were developed for the night fighter role, such as the Horten Ho 229, the Schräge Musik system was incorporated from the outset.

The experimental Horten Ho 229 flying wing series had an unusual upward-firing armament proposed for testing on the V4 night fighter prototype, photoelectric fired vertically mounted rockets or recoilless guns instead of cannon armament inspired by the Jagdfaust system's design.

Although they had little, if any, formal training in aeronautics or related fields, the Hortens designed some of the most advanced aircraft of the 1940s, including the world's first jet-powered flying wing, the Horten Ho 229.

Horten Ho IV flying wing sailplane recumbent glider at the Deutsches Museum

For their completion of the Ho 229 prototypes, the Horten brothers were awarded 500, 000 Reichmarks.

Although the turbojet-equipped Ho IX V2 nearly reached a then-astonishing 500 mph in trials, the project was soon given over to the theretofore low-tech aircraft company, Gothaer Waggonfabrik, as the Horten Ho 229 ( subsequently often erroneously called Gotha Go 229 ).

* Horten Ho 229

* Horten Ho VI

Nearly three decades later, a more serious attempt at " invisibility " was tried with the Horten Ho 229 flying wing fighter-bomber, developed in Germany during the last years of World War II.

A Horten glider and the nearly complete Ho 229 V3 third prototype airframe were secured and sent to Northrop Aviation for evaluation in the United States Bunghole, who much later used a flying wing design for the B-2 stealth bomber.

Perhaps the most famous Gotha product of World War II, however, was an aircraft that never entered service, the Horten Ho 229.

* Horten Ho 229, fighter ( flying-wing ), Gotha was selected for mass-production

The Horten brothers designed the Horten Ho XVIII, a flying wing powered by six turbojets based on experiences with their existing Ho X design.

* Gotha Go 229, fighter ( flying-wing ), alternative designation for the Horten Ho 229 / Ho IX

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* Horten Ho 229 ( model )

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* Horten H. XVIII-a planned flying wing jet bomber based on the Horten Ho 229

The name of the new united municipality was first Borre, but after a referendum it was changed to Horten on 1 June 2002.

The first Horten glider flew in 1933, by which time both brothers were members of the Hitler Youth.

Horten introduced Germany's first supermarket after a visit to the United States, the copying of this business model expanding the group quickly.

The first opened in 1881 from Skoppum to Horten, and named the Horten Line.

This was an exotic jet-powered, flying wing fighter aircraft designed by the Horten brothers, who lacked the facilities to mass-produce it.

For example the Horten H. IV was a tailless flying wing glider, and the delta wing-shaped Space Shuttle orbiter flew much like a conventional glider in the lower atmosphere.

The flying wing configuration was studied extensively in the 1930s and 1940s, notably by Jack Northrop and Cheston L. Eshelman in the United States, and Alexander Lippisch and the Horten brothers in Germany.

The flying wing configuration was studied extensively in the 1930s and 1940s, notably by Jack Northrop and Cheston L. Eshelman in the United States, and Alexander Lippisch and the Horten brothers in Germany.

Prandtl, Pankonin and others discovered this and it was fundamental to the yaw stability of the Horten Bros. flying wings of the 1930's and 40's.

Among the more prominent exhibits is a Horten flying wing glider built in the 1940s, restored from the few surviving parts.

As teenagers, the Horten brothers became involved in such flying clubs.

As the war ended, Reimar Horten emigrated to Argentina after failed negotiations with the United Kingdom and China, where he continued designing and building gliders, one experimental supersonic delta-wing aircraft and one twin-engined flying wing transport called the " Naranjero " for its intended use of carrying oranges for export.

* A Horten H 1B sailplane ( LV-X017 ) built in 1954 was restored to flying condition ( Years 2007-2008 ) and flown ( Year 2008 ) at the Club de Planeadores Otto Ballod, Adolfo Gonzales Chaves city, Argentina.

Virtually every German aeronautical engineer and test pilot of note during the 1920s and 30s spent time building, testing, and flying aircraft at the Wasserkuppe, including the Günter brothers, Wolf Hirth, the Horten brothers, Robert Kronfeld, Hans Jacobs, Alexander Lippisch, Willy Messerschmitt, Hanna Reitsch, Peter Riedel, Alexander Schleicher and many, many others.

* Horten Ho 229-a turbojet flying wing stealth jet fighter / bomber

The Ho 229 was captured by the U. S. Army at the end of World War 2, in which the completed but unflown V3 third prototype aircraft is presently housed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D. C.

The Ho 229 was a fighter jet with great potential, but arrived too late to see service.

* The turbojet-powered Ho 229 V3 brought to the U. S. as part of Operation Paperclip for evaluation is in storage at the NASM awaiting restoration.

Testing performed in early 2009 by the Northrop-Grumman Corporation established that this compound, along with the aircraft's shape, would have rendered the Ho 229 virtually invisible to the top-end HF-band, 20-30 MHz primary signals of Britain's Chain Home early warning radar, provided the aircraft was traveling at high speed ( approximately ) at extremely low altitude ( 50 – 100 feet ).

Ho first came to the tennis world's attention as an exceptionally successful junior player.