The U.S. Army Air Forces had captured the flying wing prototype—along with hundreds of other German aircraft—near the end of World War II. In April 1945, George Patton’s Third Army found ...

The Horten Ho-229 was the world's first jet-powered flying wing ... of this advanced German aircraft that never saw combat. It was developed in the late stages of the WW2 when Germany desperately ...

The idea was not unprecedented; the German aerospace engineer Hugo Junkers had patented a flying-wing design in 1910. The concept is that an airplane’s fuselage and tail, while they provide ...