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Wings to come, of future things to come.Walter and Reimar Horten, sometimes credited as the Horten Brothers, were German aircraft pilots and enthusiasts. Though they had little if any formally trained in aeronautics or a related field, the Hortens designed some of the most advanced aircraft of the 1940s. They were also called upon as design consultants, though Germanys aeronautical community tended to regard the Hortens not as part of the cultural elite. By 1937, the Hortens began using motorized airplanes, with the debut of the twin-engined pusher-prop airplane Ho VII -an earlier glider had a mule engine-. The Luftwaffe, however, did not actually use many of the Hortens designs until 1942, when grudging -and partly under-the-table- support was given to a twin-turbojet-powered fighter-bomber design, designated under wartime protocols as the Horten Ho IX. Securing the allocation of turbojets was difficult in wartime Germany, as other projects carried higher priority due to their rank in the overall war effort. As the war ended, Reimar Horten emigrated to Argentina, where he continued designing and building sailplanes and one twin-engined flying wing transport, which was unsuccessful commercially. Walter remained in Germany after the war and became an officer in the post-war German Air Force Luftwaffe. Reimar died on his ranch in Argentina in 1994, while Walter died in Germany in 1998. Interesting note - In the late 1940s, the personnel of Project Sign, the U.S. Air Forces flying saucer investigation, seriously considered the possiblity that UFOs might have been secret aircraft manufactured by the U.S.S.R. based on the Hortens designs! Depicted in this image is one of the few Horten Ho VII built for testing the flying wing.