Horten_Ho_XVIIIb_Amerika_Bomber

The Horten Ho XVIII Amerika Bomber
In the 1930s Germany, the Horten brothers, Reimar, Walter, and Wolfram, had made a name for themselves creating elegant flying wing gliders of an advanced design. They joined the Luftwaffe in 1936 as pilots, but Reimar and Walter were encouraged to continue their advanced design work while Wolfram went on become a Heinkel He 111 pilot. He was killed in battle having been shot down over Dunkirk in 1940 but had participated in the early development of the Horten glider designs. With the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, they were offered jobs with Heinkel and Messerschmitt, but disagreements with Ernst Heinkel and Willy Messerschmitt scuttled any employment with the prestigious firms. With knowledge of Northrop's advanced flying wing work in the United States and a war going on, senior Luftwaffe officials established Sonderkommando 9 at Gottingen Airfield with the brothers in command to allow them continue development work on their flying wing designs.
In 1944 the German Air Ministry (Reichsluftfarhrtministerium, RLM) issued a requirement for a long-range bomber that was capable of bombing the East Coast of the United States. The RLM called for an aircraft that could fly at high altitude for a round trip of 7000 miles and carrying either four tons of bombs or one "special weapon". Five designs were submitted, but every company that participated had aired concerns that the requirements were beyond existing technology. As a result, the RLM scrapped the competition.
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