Thanks Graeme, and I suppose the magazine didn't have the ww2aircraft forums around back then to fill in some blanks, huh?
I figure since we've been discussing flying wings, I'd mention some others that were already developed or in development during the war.
One flying wing designer, Boris Cheranovskiy of the Soviet Union, had been developing flying wings since the early 20's. None of his designs reached mass production, and most were flyable one-off designs.
Another wing designer, was Alexander Lippisch. His works included a large number of pre-war gliders and designs. Lippisch's advanced delta designs influenced the Me163 Komet, the Horton Ho XIII and numerous aircraft designs decades later, including the Harrier VTOL. Hanna Reitsch personally test flew many of Lippisch's designs.
Junkers had a few designs, and some late war prototypes that looked to borrow from the Lippisch design. One was the EF-130 and a variant of the EF-130 which I have had trouble finding a true designation for. It was referred to as the EF-140, but seems to be confused with the Soviet built Ju-287 (EF-131) swept-wing bomber, the OKB EF 140.
Jack Northrop had been developing flying wings for years before the war, and successfully flew the N-1M in 1941. Subsequent models were the N-9M, YB-35 and YB-49 all designed or under develpment during the war.
And finally, Armstrong Whitworth had a flying wing being developed during the war. The AW.52 first flew as a glider in 1945, successfully flying under it's own power two years after the war.
I know there were many other "flying wing" designs that came out of the war, but those aren't true flying wings since they have tail structures with elevators or fuselages/booms.
The pictures are:
Shown at the top is the BICh-14, from 1935.
The next image is a Lippisch DFS-194, not a Me163.
This third image is "technically" the Junkers EF-140.