WOW447 Horten 229 Heavy Jet Fighter

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SKU: 3366 Category: mothballed

Description

The Horten Ho 229 was a German prototype heavy jet fighter designed by Walter Horten during the closing stages of WW2. It was the first flying wing jet fighter and its design has been emulated in a variety of post war fighters notably in the USA.

The design was a response to Herman Goring’s request for a bomber capable of meeting the 3 x 1000 requirement; namely to be able to travel 1000 Kilometres, carrying 1000 Kilos of bombs at 1000 KMH. A glider prototype was built and flown, 2 more prototypes were built with one of them undertaking several test flights before crashing and killing the test pilot. The 3rd prototype was not fully completed and captured by US forces at the end of the war, it now rests in the Smithsonian Museum under waiting restoration.

Our latest 1/30 scale version ‘Red 13’ is armed with air to air missiles, is limited to 4 in number worldwide and is priced at $750 plus postage. There is no free postage on warbirds due to their large size.

The figures and accessories are shown for scale comparison purposes only and are not included.