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PART I –Gliders on the Green

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   1. The Post Weimar Period

   2. No powered aircraft

   3. The Brothers take to the skies

   4. A revolutionary wing design

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PART II – Chain Home

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   5. Use what we have

   6. Their Fleets will come - bypassing the French

   7. Raeder in the 1940’s

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PART III – Dunkirk - A Brother is Lost

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   8. The downing of a He-111

   9. Gloom at home

   10. Revenge

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PART IV – Carnage in the Luftwaffe

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   11. Battle of Britain - No time for sorrow

   12. Daily there are empty beds

   13. The English see us before we get there.

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PART V – Need for Stealth

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   14. Radar absorption

   15. Underpowered delta wing

   16. The dilemma of stealth

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PART VI – The Flying Wing

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   17. A new propulsion system – Jet engine

   18. The stealth aircraft is born

   19. Designing the aircraft

   20. First flight

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PART VII – Flight Operations

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PART VIII – Restoration of the Horten Ho-220

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   21. Abandoned by the Luftwaffe

   22. Shipped to the Smithsonian

   23. Restoration

T a b l e   O f   C o n t e n t s
Flying Wing - Horten Ho-220
The Story of Germany's Jet Flying Wing
Fighter Bomber
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