Horten supposedly actually got to flight testing, and one of their planes (Horten IX?) flew at 950kph. There were no stability problems reported, and it used the split drag rudder arrangement that the B-2 uses (and the YF-23, to an extent). In fact, the Horten IX can be regarded as the first stealth aircraft - it had low RCS (except the leading edges didn't have chines and the compressor faces were visivle), it was built largely out of wood and the engines were up top on the wing, shielding them from the ground. Very much like our common or garden variety Boeing special...

As for this thing, it reminds me of one of the entries for the Amerikabomber program. Obviously, this is some kind of civilian transport variant.

The sheer size of the thing would mean it could only really land on water... landing gear would be massive and bulky. Boeing's Phantom Works is working on a huge ground-effect plane roughly that size.

[Edited on 10-9-2003 by Lampyridae]

Sweet. Is that the glider? I know they had successful flights of the glider variants. The Allies found a half-built powered one in a hangar. There was also another gull-winged flying wing developed by somebody else... they got as far as a wooden mockup. It had pusher props, a remote-controlled rear turret cannon - something like the plane you saw in Raiders oof the Lost Ark

So, that engineer was right, they did fly. O-ficially, they never flew. And it's taken good ol' Boeing guys 40 years to crack the secret of tailless flight. Goering's godless goose-steppers did it in 4. Hey, Fulcrum, d'you know anything about the Manta and the Davis wing? I can't find jack on it on the net. The prohect was cancelled under "mysterious circumstances"
Wooo....

Where'd you dig up that pic anyway? All I can find are CGI pics and pictures of a half-built prototype, plus that mutilated hulk now in a museum.

[Edited on 10-9-2003 by Lampyridae]

I dont know, but it kind of looks like a B-2, which was actually created by the Germans to bomb New York. Maybe its a prototype that someone took a picture of, restored, and published. The water landing would probably be beneficial. I think I may be right, but maybe not. Oh well.

Trust me, you couldnt be more wrong..
Just stick to my story when it comes to aeroplanes.. and youll get far..

Yeah, the "flying pancake." Another potential wonder consigned to the history books. Its stalling speed was ridiculously slow, handled like a dream and was tough as nails.
But then the old US Navy got a taste for jet fighters... got a taste for the mundane. Booooo Result: this gets cancelled. They had a tough time wrecking it as well (well, the half-built jet/prop combo prototype).