In the summer of 1940, Hitler’s Third Reich seemed unstoppable. Earlier, it had seized half of Poland with minimal casualties and steamrolled over Luxemburg, Belgium, the Netherlands, and even France ...

What You Need to Know: The B-21 Raider, set to replace many Cold War-era bombers by the end of the decade, continues the U.S. Air Force’s tradition of flying wing aircraft, dating back to World War II ...

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, ...

What You Need to Know: The Horten Ho 229 was a German prototype fighter-bomber developed during World War II, often considered the world’s first stealth fighter due to its flying wing design, which ...

In the years after World War I, when aviation was all the rage in Europe and North America but the Treaty of Versailles banned the production of military aircraft in Germany, glider clubs sprang up ...

Digital recreation of the Horten Ho 229 in night flight. Credit: FOX 52 / Wikimedia Commons The NASM (National Air and Space Museum) is a Smithsonian Institute museum dedicated to the history and ...

The aircraft has always intrigued aviation fans. But after a 2009 National Geographic Channel special aired, touting the Horten Ho 229 V3 flying wing’s “stealthy” characteristics and claiming it was ...

In the last months of World War Two, Nazi Germany tested an experimental fighter more spaceship than aircraft. Only now are we realising how inspired it was. BBC Future looks at the Horten Ho 229, one ...