Horten Ho-IX / Gotha Go 229

1945

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Horten Ho-IX / Gotha Go 229

The Horton Ho IX twin-jet tailless fighter-bomber, of which two prototypes were flown before the end of the war, was of extremely advanced design, which benefited from considerable experience gained by the brothers Reimar and Walter Horten in the development of flying-wing aircraft, of which the majority were gliders. Designed by Sonderkommando 9, starting in 1942, the first prototype Ho IX VI was found to be unable to accommodate the two intended BMW 109-003-1 turbojets owing to an unforeseen increase in engine diameter, and it was therefore flown as a glider at Oranienburg during the summer of 1944. The redesigned Ho IX V2 was fitted with two Junkers 109-004B-1 turbojets and flown successfully at Oranienburg, demonstrating speeds of up to 960km/h before it was destroyed while making a single-engine landing. Such promise encouraged the RLM to instruct Gothaer Waggonfabrik to assume development of the design, and a third prototype, the Go 229 V3, was produced with 1000kg thrust Jumo 109- 004C turbojets, but was prevented from flying by the end of hostilities in May 1945. Work had also started on the two-seat Go 229 V4 and Go 229 V5 night-fighter prototypes, the Go 229 V6 armament test prototype, and the Go 229 V7 two-seat trainer, No progress had been made on 20 pre-production Go 229A-0 fighter-bombers, on order at the end of the war, that were intended to carry two 1000kg bombs and four 30mm MK 103 cannon.

Horten Ho-IX / Gotha Go 229

Specification 
 MODELHo-IX V2
 CREW1
 ENGINE2 x 2 x Jumo-004, 900kg
 WEIGHTS
  Take-off weight6900 kg15212 lb
  Empty weight4844 kg10679 lb
 DIMENSIONS
  Wingspan16.8 m55 ft 1 in
  Length7.2 m24 ft 7 in
  Height2.6 m9 ft 6 in
  Wing area52.8 m2568.33 sq ft
 PERFORMANCE
  Max. speed960 km/h597 mph

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Horten Ho-IX / Gotha Go 229A three-view drawing (1690 x 1130)

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Castle22r, e-mail, 12.07.2008 01:29

Only a Nazi like Hitler could even deceive a plane like this.Of all my 7 years of studying ww2 I have never saw anything like this.

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Harry peters, 14.05.2008 18:05

amazing

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Harry peters, 14.05.2008 18:05

amazing

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Aero-Fox, 27.03.2008 17:44

Apparently, the sample th U.S got ahold of is being restored at the Smithsonian Institution for the Air & Space museum...who knows, they may even get it into flyable condition...the center fuselage and engines are mostly intact, but new wings have to be built...

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nitu andrei, e-mail, 10.03.2008 20:32

it whant to kill you,it look's like it came from hell(i'm from romania)

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nitu andrei, e-mail, 10.03.2008 20:29

a nice aircraft

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Massimo Battistin, e-mail, 10.03.2008 00:21

I'm italian (forgive my naive english). I read on H. Nowarra's four volume essay about history of german aircraft technology that a sample of this revolutionary aircraft was brought in U.S.A., together with large amount of drawings and projects for the so called "wunderwaffen"(==wonderweapons).

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Dr. Nikholas M. Stage--PHD., e-mail, 10.11.2007 17:07

This is where the modern USAF B-2 "stealth-Spirit"
bomber got it's start with the Horten GO-229, more than
sixty years ago.

Nazi Germany was well ahead in military aircraft
technology, but Hitler failed to give his "go-ahead"
in deployment of these aircraft.
Ergo hoc; Germany lost World War Two.
ALSO:
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was of the same
"mind-set" as Hitler, but he, Stalin, had geography,time,
and the vastness of the Soviet geo-political heartland
to "save his skin".

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