Hoarding H XII
The Horten H XII was a flying wing test aircraft from the Horten brothers .
The aircraft was designed after the Horten brothers had examined the laminar profile of a captured P 51 Mustang and saw this as an opportunity to improve the flight performance of the Horten H IV . For this purpose, an H IV b was manufactured with a laminar profile that had lower resistance values than the profile previously used. However, the machine crashed due to poor slow flight characteristics. The H XII was planned as a further developed, motorized H IV b. But here, too, only a glider variant was produced for test purposes. This aircraft showed similar poor flight characteristics as the H IV b. The project was then abandoned.
Technical specifications
Hoarding H XII
- Span: 16.0 m
- Wing area: 31.0 m²
- Max. Takeoff weight: 700 kg
literature
- Heinz J. Nowarra : The German Air Armament 1933-1945. Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1993, ISBN 3-7637-5464-4 .
Web links
- http://www.luftpiraten.de/glos_l00.html (laminar profile)
- http://www.sailplanedirectory.com/horten.htm (English, pictures, index)
- http://nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Horten_Nurflugels/horten_nurflugels.html (English, pictures, index)