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Did you perhaps mean KPH for those speed quotes?Stats Ho 229 / Ar 234
Max speed 620 / 780 mph
Range 620 / 1240 miles
Payload 2200 / 2200 lb
V2 was supposed to be equipped with the BMW003 but ended up using the Jumo004. Also, the V2 itself, was slighly smaller than the V3 airframe.And the V2 flew with different, smaller, lower powered engines than the V3 was equipped with.
Did you perhaps mean KPH for those speed quotes?
The Ar234's Max. Speed at 20,000 feet was 742kph = 461mph
Also, the data for the Ho229V3 is estimated, it never flew. Only the V2 flew, but suffered an engine failure, caught fire and crashed before it was able to demonstrate it's full abilities.
Apparently the Horten Ho 229 V3 was taken from its factory by U.S. forces to the RAE site to see if Derwent I engines could fit inside it (they could not)? I did not know this, it is correct?
The possibility of flying the aircraft with Avon turbojets was discussed as for reasons I don't have time to type here the British test pilots refused to fly the machine with Jumo engines, of which they already had some experience.
How far along was the micro processor controlled fly by wire control system before the war brought development to a halt. Everything I have read on flying wings says they were an accident waiting to happen for anything other than flying straight and level and are only feasible with computer controls.
It's also a bit difficult to find enough volume for any kind of payload
No, I mean the remains of the H IX V2. It was this that was flown to Farnborough from Binders airfield, near Erfurt.
Once the programme was cancelled and any possibility of rebuilding the aircraft with Rolls Royce engines abandoned the remains were displayed in the German Aircraft Exhibition in the 'A' Hangar at Farnborough. Contemporary photographs show that the cockpit in which Ziller met his demise was demolished and one wing was very badly damaged. There were no engines fitted.
The British did test fly a Horten glider, the H IV, W.Nr. 25. This was given the RAF serial VP543 and flown, towed by a captured Fi 156 (RAF serial VP546) until 1950.
The British also acquired the rather strange Horten H VIII. What happened to it is not known though it may have been shipped to the US.
The H IX V2 did find its way to the US in late 1945 or early 1946, after the Farnborough exhibition, according to Eric Brown writing in 1982. Anyone know what happened to it?
Cheers
Steve