History:
Designed by the Horten brothers with the aid of Dipl-Ing K Nickel at the end
of 1944, after an appeal by Goring for a long-distance bomber to deliver a 4,000
kg bomb load to the USA. Goring awarded the Production contract on 23/3/1945
and with his backing construction started on 1/4/1945 at the underground workshops
of the Kahla complex in Thuringia, nothing is known of what it's fate was. The
air craft was made of steel tubing covered with a 15mm plywood/carbon sawdust/plywood
skin, the engines were fitted externally under the wings in two pod of three
engines, the landing gear was retractable, there were two weapon station in
the nose / tail each with 2x 20mm cannons remotely controlled from the crew
cabin which was pressurized and located in the front section of the large vertical
surface.
