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Horten Ho 229 Fighter / Bomber

Made some progress on the CAD Model.

It's drawn as a solid with just the wings and motors as removable components. I scaled it in CAD using a drawing I found online.

Trying to avoid any airfoil in the wing, should help to keep the flight profile straight.

This rocket will also have (6) small vertical stabilizers on the wings.

Motors are canted 4 degrees downward when compared to the body centerline. Not exactly sure why it was done on the original, but it helps on the model to get the motor exhaust up out of the body.

The plan is to fabricate the fuselage and wings as a built up sub-assembly of Basswood components. This will be similar to how the real planes were built, as well as how folks build model airplanes for rubber power, U-Control and RC airplanes.

Planning on dual composite motors.

2025-03-08

Making progress ... created the model for the internal wing structure, and made a couple drawings.

2025-03-09

Worked on the center fuselage.

I think I got the cockpit and motors figured out, along with the exhaust gas routing to deploy the parachute.

We'll know more once I plug this into the center section of the rocket.

2025-03-10

The center section came out really nice. Pretty sure there's enough room for a 36" dia. parachute, if needed. I'll hinge the bottom plate in the front, with tape retention in the back. Ejection charge pops it open and the chute deploys.

Drawing Set, 1 thru 6, Rev 00