Horten's wonder

April 1945: As Patton’s Third Army rolls through Germany, XIII Corps captures
the Gotha aircraft plant at Friedrichsroda – and with it, fragmentary prototypes
of a mysterious aircraft.
It was the top-secret, highly experimental Horten project. Even if one of the
planes had been fully assembled, it’s doubtful many of the American soldiers who saw it
would have known what to make of a plywood twin-engine jet with no tail, no fuselage,
and no propellers. On a much smaller scale, the Horten 229 resembled the B-2 bomber
first viewed by the public in 1988. But this was 1945 – imagine what Kilroy must have
thought!
A half century later, the Ho 229 still captures the imagination of modelers. And in the
case mine, imagination and research led to details not found in Dragon’s
Ho 229 kit. No matter – armed with photos, drawings, and his own ideas of how things
might have turned out if the aircraft had entered service.


here few shots of the real thing

And here the kit build up

Details of new instrument panel

And the Jumo 004B