The Horten H.VI was a

flying wing A flying wing is a tailless fixed-wing aircraft that has no definite fuselage, with its crew, payload, fuel, and equipment housed inside the main wing structure. A flying wing may have various small protuberances such as pods, nacelles, blis ...

aircraft designed by the Horten brothers during World War II. Based on the

Horten H.IV The Horten H.IV was a German tailless flying wing glider in which the pilot was to lie in a prone position to reduce the frontal area, and hence drag. It was designed by Reimar and Walter Horten in Göttingen. Four were built between 1941 an ...

, the H.VI was an enlarged version of the H.IV, with the goal of comparing their flying wing designs against the very large span

Akaflieg Darmstadt D-30 Cirrus The Akaflieg Darmstadt D-30 Cirrus was an aerodynamically advanced single seat sailplane with a very high aspect ratio wing and a pod and boom fuselage. Built in Germany just before World War II, it was intended as a record breaker and duly s ...

. The H.VI was allocated the RLM ID number 8-253 and by inference Horten Ho 253 though this was little used in practice.

Specifications (H.VI V2)

References

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