With a sleek flying wing design and speeds reaching 200 mph, the XCG-16 was no ordinary glider. Built as an experimental assault aircraft during WWII, it pushed the limits of stealth and speed ...

The brothers Walter and Reimar Horten, just 13 and 10 years old, respectively, joined the Bonn glider club in 1925 ... Hugo Junkers had patented a flying-wing design in 1910.

The original glider weighed 2kg, and with the upgrades to the design, the Flying Wing weighs 3.5kg, with speed capabilities of around 45mph. To save weight, neither plane has landing or take off ...

Northrop would design the famous high-wing monoplane ... for America’s first rocket-powered aircraft when a flying wing glider, the MX-324, fitted with an Aerojet General 2,000 lb thrust rocket ...