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Quick Statistics:
Body Length - 7.00 in.[17.80 cm.] •
Span - 15.00 in.[38.10 cm.] • |
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With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the outlook for flying wing development improved immeasurably. On both sides of the Atlantic, governments were more than willing to gamble funds and manpower in a search for the right combination of weapons and aircraft that could mean the difference between victory and defeat in the air war ahead. Most of the governments that were at war took a few tentative steps in the direction of tailless fighters, but only one aircraft of the type, the Messerschmitt Me 163, was used in combat. In the United States, only Jack Northrop worked vigorously to build a flying wing, but it was not until a year after the war that the first of his giant aircraft made its maiden flight. In Germany, despite the exigencies of war, the Hortens continued to create a series of imaginative flying wing designs that culminated in the worldÂ’s first turbojet-powered flying wing. The Lippisch designed Me 163 became the worldÂ’s first operational tailless fighter.
Following their success with the pre-war Ho III series, the Hortens designed and built the first model officially sponsored by the German government. In the 1941 Ho IV, the Horten brothers doubled the aspect ratio of the Ho III to about 22:1. The glider featured a plywood-covered steel tube inner section containing the cockpit, in which the pilot assumed a semi-prone position to reduce drag as much as possible. This “praying mantis” position, in which the upper part of the pilot’s body was horizontally inclined 30 degrees, was restful on long test flights, one of which exceeded nine hours. The wings were made of wood with fabric covering except for the outer six feet, which were made of aluminium. Using a retractable type of skid landing gear, the Ho IV took off on a wheel attached to a wooden skid. After takeoff, the wheel dropped automatically when the skid was retracted. There were no vertical surfaces on the wing, and a complex control system was employed, consisting of dive brakes that moved out at right angles to the wing surface, drag rudders, and three elevons along each trailing edge.
A variant of this aircraft was the Ho IVB, which incorporated a laminar flow airfoil with a plastic leading edge. The airfoil section was based on data obtained from wind tunnel tests of a captured P-51 Mustang fighter. Unfortunately, the Ho NB suffered from bad stalling characteristics and eventually crashed after a spin, killing the pilot. Nonetheless, the basic Ho IV, developed for distance soaring, attained a very high performance level, having been tested in extensive flight trials totalling more than 1000 hours. |
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