The Horten H.VI was a flying wing

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. Based on the Horten H.IV, 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

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. 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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