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Old 05-29-2013 | 11:53 PM
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Jgwright
 
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Default RE: Jack Bale's Horten 229

Erbroens

Easy to get hung up on worrying about the asymmetric thrust. I believe all those that have made large Horten ho229 either with or without turbines still have them. The engines are very close together and the plane was developed from a glider. The only problems come when lowering the retracts too soon and we never drop ours till we are over the threshold. a 6" diameter nose wheel acts like a rudder! We have twin MW44's in ours. We did have an engine run out of fuel on the first flight so we simply cut the power to the remaining engine and glided in.

Gyros are not needed, though we have one on ailerons on our Horten.

John