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This object is on display in the Boeing Aviation Hangar at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA.
In 1943, the chief of the German Luftwaffe (Air Force), Hermann Göring, allocated half-a-million Reich Marks to the brothers Reimar and Walter Horten to build and fly several prototypes of the all-wing and jet-propelled Horten Ho 229 (‘aitch-oh-two-two-nine’). Numerous technical problems beset the project and the only wing to fly with jet power crashed during its third test flight; nonetheless ... Read even more
