We all know a plane can’t fly without wings – but can wings fly without a body? A new fuselage-free “flying wing” prototype has proved that it can, and it made its global debut at Germany’s AERO ...

Click to open image viewer. In 1943 the all-wing and jet-propelled Horten Ho 229 ('aitch-oh-two-two-nine') promised spectacular performance and the German air force (Luftwaffe) chief, Hermann Göring, ...

The Horten Ho 229 V3 awaits restoration at the National Air and Space Museum's Garber facility. NASM David Bull, of Sacramento, California, asks when the Air and Space Museum plans to restore the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The combination of speed and reduced radar detection range would have made the Horten Amerika bomber very difficult to intercept. In fact, we know the flying jet ...

In the closing years of the Second World War, Germany explored radical flying wing designs in an effort to leap ahead in jet technology. While the Horten 229 is the most famous of these projects, ...

The combination of speed and reduced radar detection range would have made the Horten Amerika bomber very difficult to intercept. In fact, we know the flying jet bomber concept was viable because two ...

Why the Horten Experimental Nazi Aircraft Never Took Off | RealClearScience In the years after World War I, when aviation was all the rage in Europe and North America but the Treaty of Versailles ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. We all know a plane can't fly without wings -- but can wings fly without a body? A new fuselage-free "flying wing" prototype has ...

Horten first selected the 003 jet engine manufactured by BMW but then switched to the Junkers 004 power plants. Reimar built much of the wing center section based on the engine specifications sent by ...