#Simpleplanes bomber software

The C model of the H.XVIII was based on the airframe of the H.XVIIIA with a huge tail. Defensive armament was considered unnecessary due to the expected high performance. The aircraft was to be built in huge concrete hangars and operate off long runways with construction due to start in autumn 1945, but the end of the war came with no progress made. The B model of the H.XVIIIB was generally the same as the A model, except the four (down from six) engines and four-wheel retractable landing gear were now housed in underwing pods, and the three-man crew housed under a bubble canopy. The aircraft was first proposed for the Amerika Bomber project and was personally reviewed by Hermann Göring: after review, the Horten brothers (with deep dissatisfaction) were forced to share design and construction of the aircraft with Junkers and Messerschmitt engineers, who wanted to add a single rudder fin as well as suggesting underwing pods to house the engines and landing gear. Resembling the Horten Ho 229 flying wing fighter there were many odd features that distinguished this aircraft the jettisonable landing gear and the wing made of wood and carbon based glue, are but two. Its six turbojet engines were buried deep in the wing and the exhausts centered on the trailing end.

The A model of the H.XVIII was a long, smooth blended wing body.

high-altitude and/or long-range combat air patrols.

ongoing improvements in radar (especially early warning and airborne radar), and.

intelligence gathering, especially advances in cryptanalysis.

increasing air attacks on German factories and airbases.

The ability of bomber crews, in an aircraft such as the Horten H.XVIII, to attack targets in North America, might have been hampered by existing and emerging Allied air defence strategies and technologies, such as:

#Simpleplanes bomber software

In recent years, software modelling has suggested that the stealth and speed of the Hortens' flying wing jet designs would have made interception, prior to bombing, difficult and unlikely. The H.XVIII was one of many proposed designs for an Amerikabomber, and would have carried sufficient fuel for transatlantic flights.

The unbuilt H.XVIII represented, in many respects, a scaled-up version of the Horten Ho 229, a prototype jet fighter.

The Horten H.XVIII was a proposed German World War II intercontinental bomber, designed by the Horten brothers.