Sorry guys this is mostly pie in the sky stuff,the Hortens were great high performance gliders but as jet a/c they were just death traps,as I posted in the earlier thread on these a/c…the fuel tanks were integral,ie the wing structure was the fuel tank,a fuel soaked wooden structure is hardly a sensible way of constructing a jet a/c especially when the engines were so unreliable and liable to go ‘bnag’ at any time.
There was no bulkhead to protect fuel/pilot/the other engine from an uncontained engine failure.
They did not have the control authority to cope with a single engine failure,although the jet Horten crash was probably at least partly the pilots fault,apparently he was not very experienced on multi engine a/c.
The long range bomber idea gave me a bit of a giggle ,how many engines would a Horten use to successfully fly long range 😀
Those engines were simply not up to production standards and it would have taken many years development to make them so.
rgds baz
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