Sexy Kachina

It takes all sorts!

I’ve read that it’s nice to fly as well. Yes, it’s because it’s different, I just think it would be fun with it’s tandem seats and stick (no I’m not a fighter pilot wannabe). More importantly, I know I could fly it, no tailwheels, funny props etc.

Back to the main point of the post, the chute, it’s more because of collision, to be honest. It was something that was always in the back of my mind, and was, indirectly, the reason I stopped flying 13 years ago.
Chutes are commonplace in competition gliders (for this reason maybe), why not GA?

Back in October at the Duxford forum meet, we visited the documents section. I idly leafed through a post-war report on Horten flying wings, and it mentioned a multi engine beast (definitely not the HoIX/Go229, this had 6 or 8 engines), and described it as essentially complete and not far away from being flight ready. This took me by surprise as I had not heard of it before. It sounds like the America Bomber of the programme, but suggests it survived and was in an advanced state of completion. Wonder what happened to it?