The Horten brothers: Walter (left) and Reimar (right)
Walter Horten (born 13 November 1913 in Bonn; died 9 December 1998 in Baden-Baden, Germany) and Reimar Horten (born 12 March 1915 in Bonn; died 14 March 1994 in Villa General Belgrano, Argentina), sometimes credited as the Horten Brothers, were German aircraft pilots. Walter was a fighter pilot on the Western Front, flying a Bf 109 for Jagdgeschwader 26 in the first six months of World War II; he eventually became the unit's technical officer. Reimar was also trained as a Messerschmitt Bf 109 pilot; however, later in August 1940, he was transferred to the glider pilot school in Braunschweig. He earned his PhD in mathematics from the University of Göttingen, having resumed his studies in 1946 with help from Ludwig Prandtl. The Hortens designed the world's first jet-powered flying wing, the Horten Ho 229.
configuration was favoured by the Hortenbrothers due to its high aerodynamic efficiency, as demonstrated by their Horten H.IV glider. In order to minimise...
department store of the Gebrüder Alsberg (Alsberg brothers) company. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Horten was able to acquire the company from the Jewish...
Cheston L. Eshelman in the United States, and Alexander Lippisch and the Hortenbrothers in Germany. After the war, several experimental designs were based...
aircraft manufacturers (Messerschmitt, Junkers, Focke-Wulf and the HortenBrothers) early in World War II, coinciding with the passage of the Destroyers...
entered service, the Horten Ho 229. This was an exotic jet-powered, flying wing fighter aircraft designed by the Hortenbrothers, who lacked the facilities...
advantages of the tailless configuration include low parasitic drag as on the Horten H.IV soaring glider and good stealth characteristics as on the Northrop...
noted that the advanced flying wing aeronautical designs of the German Hortenbrothers were similar to some UFO reports. In 1959, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt...
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abusing a young girl. Edgar Antonsen was born in 1940 in Horten. He spent his early childhood in Horten, with his parents frequently fighting and getting drunk...
Horten Church (Norwegian: Horten kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Horten Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is located in...
flying aircraft at the Wasserkuppe, including the Günter brothers, Wolf Hirth, the Hortenbrothers, Robert Kronfeld, Hans Jacobs, Heini Dittmar, Alexander...
missile and A-10 booster rocket; Eugen Sänger's Silbervogel, and the Hortenbrothers' Horten Ho 229 turbojet-powered flying wing fighter. While this competition...
relatively early example is provided by the flying-wing gliders of the Hortenbrothers during the 1930s, whose wing tips flexed upwards in flight to act as...
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