The "Five Easy Piece" Horten 229

by Bobdaeronort | January 14, 2014 | (7) Posted in Projects

Ramier and Walter Horten designed and flew their Nurflugels (only-wing) Gliders as teenagers in Germany before WWII. During the war they developed the jet powered Ho-229 for the Luftwaffe and were also working on a long-range Bomber version when the war ended. 

Here I take my "Five Easy Piece" Methodology and apply it along with Kline-Fogleman (KFm4) wings and Ventral Vertical Stabilizers (VVS) to create an Dynamic, Reliable, and Accessible Horten Flying Wing.  

I use Dow and or Owens Corning FFF to make my planes. However DT or what I call "Foam-Core" board form Hobby Lobby, Micheals, Walmart, or Dollar-Tree would work too.

Hope you will enjoy the "Five Easy Piece" version of the Horten 229 as much as I have.

The B-2 Spirit Bomber shares many of the same charateristics of the Ho-229 so I include it's build notes too.

Either one would make an excellent FPV platform as well.

The "Five EASY Piece" Horten 229, B-2 and PAK DA PDF plans are free and the links are found in the build video.

This video covers the Horten, B-2 Spirit and PAK DA builds:

Here are Horten and B-2 Build and set-up Notes:

Here is a video of the "Five Easy Piece" Horten 229 flying on a windy summer day. 

COMMENTS

billromo on January 19, 2014
Awsome. Did I miss the link to the plans here? This is a must future build n fly!
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Bobdaeronort on January 19, 2014
No I had forgotten to add it to the video description. My bad.
Here it is again:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/h8zkos0b4x5bj2f/5EZP%20Horten%20229%20LtrTiled.pdf
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LordVader on January 19, 2014
Awesome builds and vids, as always Bob. Your plans are on RCGroups and Wattflyer, right? Going to be an awesome winter for building with these planes. Can't wait to get started.
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Bobdaeronort on January 19, 2014
Thanks.
Please post pics of your builds.

bob
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Gravitysucks on January 20, 2014
Excellent. I'm a bit of a flying wing geek so this will be fun to try.
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Bobdaeronort on January 20, 2014
Thanks. I'll have to do an article on my B-2 Spirit of Indiana.
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Gravitysucks on January 20, 2014
I will look forward to it :)
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The "Five Easy Piece" Horten 229