On flying discs and conspiracy theories "The UFO craze began in the summer of 1947. Several months later, ... "The Horten brothers were involved in the flying disc crash in New Mexico.

A 1945 report on airplanes designed by Germany's Horten brothers included this photograph of an unusually shaped parabolic aircraft. Two years later, after the crash of a foreign disc-shaped ...

The evil Red Skull escapes in a flying wing. Oh, those Horten brothers. Looks like they’re at it again. The aircraft in Captain America: The First Avenger looks suspiciously like a Horten flying ...

The brothers Walter and Reimar Horten, just 13 and 10 years old, respectively, joined the Bonn glider club in 1925, and soon turned from flying kites to a far more ambitious activity ...

- Designed by brothers Walter and Reimar Horten and built by Gothaer Waggonfabrik, it was the first flying wing powered by jet engines. The Ho 229 featured two turbojet engines, a top speed of 977 ...

Like the Horton brothers’ other prototypes, initial models were made of wood to test the aerodynamics of the design. By using small-scale wooden models, the I.Ae. 37’s general characteristics ...

The Horten brothers combined flying with designing aircraft as well – turning the family’s lounge-room into a workshop to work on new designs, according to the aviation website Aerostories.

The Horten Ho 229 is often classified as a “stealth aircraft,” and the Horten brothers had indeed been correct that the flying wing concept would make it less visible to radar than a ...