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Horten H IX (or Ho 229 or Gotha Go 229) a little history before we begin…
Reimar and Walter Horten designed many gliders in the pre-Luftwaffe era of the German 1930’s, so when Germany came to the fore in aviation with the Nazi Party in power and spending a lot of money on new radical designs, it seemed natural for their revolutionary “tail-less” designs to follow the air force into the spotlight of the world.
The development of Jet engines seemed a natural fit with their large winged gliders, and so came the almost mythological Ho 229. The One can see how this will be not just a popular model with the “Luft 46” people as well as other modellers who want something a bit different but wholly conceivable in the skies over Europe in 1945.
The H IX/Go 229 was a single-seat fighter bomber with a 16-metre wingspan and twin jet engines, and it was a further development of the H V and H VII designs. The There has been a bit mentioned about the stealth capabilities of this aircraft and they were examined on a really helpful documentary recently, which is worth a watch before you build this kit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqgfjXaJxV8
V.3 – was being built by Gotha at Friedrichsroda as a prototype of the series production version and was later shipped to USA). The V.3 was never flown*
First up, the basics – with the wingspan of 52.5 cm, this 32nd scale kit will be big enough to fill most modeller’s desks. This He is wearing that same flight suit and futuristic helmet we have seen already…There are several options with this kit. This The Kit Two two pilots and the elongated cockpit to house them in, along with the other features you have seen already in this preview…The same airframe pretty much, but with the addition of the radar antennae and the air-to-air missiles that were also in development (planning) at this late stage in the war.
You see more of the inside; with the wings removed also, there will be heaps of modellers making this to look a little like a barn-find or the NASM version.The two pilots are, of course, included in this two-seater!
