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| Horten XIII Tailless Aircraft in flight. The crew is in the crew cab at the rear of the aircraft. |
The Horten H.XIII was an experimental flying wing aircraft designed by the Horten brothers during World War II.
The H.XIIIa was an unpowered glider with wings swept backwards at 60°. It was a technology demonstrator to examine the low speed handling of highly swept wings, for the development of a jet fighter which was expected to exceed Mach 1, the H.XIIIb.
The single H XIII was destroyed by liberated Russian prisoners at the end of WWII.
References
Horten, Reimar; Peter F. Selinger (1985). Nurflügel (in German) (1st ed.). Graz: H. Wieshaupt Verlag. pp. 158–162.
Further Reading
Rose, Bill (2010). Flying wings and tailless aircraft. Hinckley: Midland. pp. 50–51.
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| Reimar Horten and a model of the Ho XIIIa. |
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| Schematic for the Ho XIIIa. |